p William E. Swegan Sgt. Bill was the major spokesman for the psychological wing of early Alcoholics Anonymous-that group within the newborn A.A. movement of the 1930's, 40's and 50's which stressed the psychotherapeutic side of the twelve step program instead of the spiritual side. This book is Swegan's major work, in which he lays out the psychiatric theories which formed the foundation of that variety of A.A. thought. He also talks about his association with Mrs. Marty Mann, Yev Gardner, E. M. Jellinek at the Yale School of Alcohol Studies, Bill Dotson A.A. No. 3 and Searcy Whaley, in addition to recording his memories of the year he spent observing Sister Ignatia at work at St. Thomas Hospital in Akron. p pIn 1953 Sgt. Bill teamed up with famous American psychiatrist Louis Jolyon Jolly West at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, to develop a method of alcoholism treatment given further development in the mid 1960s by Dr. Joseph J. Zuska and Dick Jewell at Long Beach Nava