IN the glossary of the recovery movement, there is something known as a slip.

"The therapeutic culture shaped by the recovery movement is profoundly irrational," she writes.

This sense has its origin in the group therapy that is now called the recovery movement.

One effect of the recovery movement is that women are openly identifying themselves as alcoholics and addicts.

Ms. Kaminer says the recovery movement has peaked and is fading.

Many people are familiar with the Twelve Steps of the recovery movement.

But what of the passivity and search for simple absolutes the recovery movement reflects?

The recovery movement is filled with stories of children who grew up having to take care of emotionally dysfunctional parents.

There is truth to some of the criticisms being leveled at the survivors' recovery movement; excesses that we, too, are concerned about.