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Luscombe's Choice: The Sober Truth by Dr Lance Dodes. In this episode, Will Luscombe presents a book-review conversation with Dr Lance Dodes, psychiatrist and former Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, whose The Sober Truth takes a critical look at the ideas behind 12-step programmes. They explore the religious origins of AA, the narrative structure it shares with Christian conversion stories, and wider philosophical questions around addiction, agency and human behaviour — ranging across the thinkers in Dodes's orbit, from Freud on pleasure and pain to Daniel Dennett on ideology and anthropologist Paul Antze on AA's biblical narrative arc. [Repeats Sunday 7am.]

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