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The Big Book relates the story of an alcoholic American business
man who placed himself under the care of Dr. Carl Jung; how-
ever, the doctor‘s treatment was unsuccessful. Jung advised
Rowland that his only hope for sobriety was a spiritual experience

(pp 26 and 27).

AA lore has this event taking place during 1931 – Cebra Graves
told Bill Wilson that Rowland informed him that the meeting took
place in 1930 or 1931.* However, later researchers have come to
different conclusions:

Dubiel showed in this book, that although A.A. tradition said that
Hazard was a patient of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung for a year
in 1931, he could have spent two months with Jung at most during
the course of that year, and even that would have been difficult, based
on his study of the Hazard family papers.

But in the period immediately following the publication of this book,
two other researchers, Amy Colwell Bluhm, Ph.D., and Cora Finch,
working independently, established that Rowland actually arrived in
Zurich in May 1926 (five years earlier than the traditional A.A. date).

See Bluhm's article "Verification of C. G. Jung‘s analysis of Rowland
Hazard and the history of Alcoholics Anonymous" in the American
Psychological Association's journal History of Psychology in
November 2006.

* Culture and Society Quarterly, Vol 3, No. 7 (April-June 2008)
PROGRESS REPORT: THE MESSENGERS TO EBBY: CEBRA G.
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/collections/kirk/casq/