If I read the Big Book, there is a lot I hate – the aggressive godliness, the weird 1930s lingo, etc. But if I look, for example, at the humanist 12 steps (the B.S. Skinner version that someone linked to the other day), they don’t remotely seem to grasp how much difficulty and desperation all alcoholics will go through. They just seem glib.
Actually, it was through the CBA of SMART Recovery that I learned how deadly serious my problem was. To compare Skinner's steps to a book is an unfair comparision, and I have never been a fan of B.F. Skinner's theories in general.