Editing Ego reduction (section)

==Alcoholics Anonymous==
[[Harry Tiebout]] saw the surrender of the alcoholic in AA as dependent upon ego reduction, in the twin sense of a relinquishment of personal [[narcissism]], and the development of a new trust in other people.<ref>K. G. Davis, ''Primero Dios'' (1994) p. 60</ref>

Tiebout stressed that this was a process that should be applied only to the (over-extended) infantile ego {{nowrap|sense{{tsp}}{{mdash}}}}{{tsp}}the surviving remnants of an original [[omnipotence (psychoanalysis)|megalomania]] that had not been worn away by the normal processes of life.<ref>Harry Tiebout ''Harry Tiebout: Collected Writings'' (1999) p. 78</ref>