REMAKING A MAN

This blog links Tuesday, January 8, 2013 It is NOT "Who's Right" but "What's Right"
and
Friday, January 18, 2013 Be faithful to me and I will be faithful to you - The Emmanuel Movement

Rowland arrived in Zurich in May 1926 and was Carl Jung's patient for a considerable length of time. Jung ended up telling Rowland that he had never seen alcoholics of his type recover until they became willing to commit themselves to the spiritual life. Since Rowland was a typical alcoholic, however, it took him seven more years of denial and misery -- as he continued to refuse to take Jung's prescription seriously -- before he met Courtenay Baylor from the Emmanuel Movement and began seeking a spiritual solution to his alcoholism.

 Courtenay Baylor became Rowland Hazard's therapist in 1933, and continued to work with him through 1934. It was under the influence of Baylor's Emmanuel Movement therapy (with its combination of spirituality and simple lay therapy) that Hazard actually began to recover. Hazard was also attending Oxford Group meetings, but his family was paying Baylor to be his regular therapist.  Rowland joined the Oxford Group in February of 1934.  He took the Oxford Group Four Steps and started working with others.
In August 1934, of course, Hazard helped rescue Ebby Thacher from being committed to the Brattleboro Asylum, and three months later, in November 1934, Ebby visited Bill Wilson in his kitchen, in the famous scene recorded in the first chapter of the Big Book.