Inordinate Mood-Altering Behavior as Symptomatic of Spiritual Disorder: The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous in Light of the Establishment of Formative Spirituality.

• Abstract
• Introduction and Overview
• Statement of the Problem
• Focus of this Research and Some Limitations
• Methodology and Structure of the Research
• The Discipline of Formative Spirituality
• The Twelve Steps
• The Muslim Tradition
• Discussion and Praxis
• Chapter One: Representative Literature
• Popular Literature
• Attitudes Towards Conceptions of Alcoholism
• Self Actualization
• Alcoholics Anonymous' Impact on Americans
• Measuring Religious Variables
• A Psychospiritual Clinical Approach
• The Rhetoric of AA
• A Movement Towards a Definition
• A View from Art Psychotherapy
• Chapter Two: Formation Theory
• Form and Formation
• Mystery, Trancendence & Human Formation: Spirituality
• The Human Field of Formation
• Chapter Three: An Illustration of Basic Formative Spirituality and Movement Towards Clinical Applications By Means of the Muslim Tradition
• Faith and Form Traditions
• Muslim Allegations of a Transhuman Epiphany
• Field Conditions and Emergence of Form
• The Qur'anic Prohibition
• Muslim Hermeneutic of Mystery
• Tawhid
• Dualistic Tendencies in Islam
• Van Kaam's "Autarchism" and Muslim Suspicion of the Subjective
• Towards an Islamic Hermeneutic of Mood
• Chapter Four: The Twelve Steps in Light of Formation Theory
• Other Concerns Related to Spirituality
• More on Subjective Prejudice
• Speech and Text
• Metaphor and Analogy as Formation
• Dispositions
• The Beginnings of AA
• Bill's "Hot Flash": A Transhuman Epiphany?
• Hermeneutic of, and Response to the Mystery
• An Incipient Field Approach and Conceptualization
• The Spirituality of the Twelve Steps as Formative
• Towards a Spirituality of Mood
• Inordinate Mood-Altering Behavior
• The Twelve Steps Beyond AA
• Chapter Five: Conclusion
• Bibliography