I’ve been to a few AA meetings when I was trying to get my mom sober and I never got the vibe that it was about “aversion therapy” for alcohol. The whole point seemed to be to discharge your egotistical need to be “in control” of the alcohol and accept that it was taking over your life despite your best efforts. You were then supposed to seek help from the people in the group to try to keep that from happening. There wasn’t really a culture of shame but rather acceptance there. And they also pushed a lot of ideas like repair after rupture that are a part of normal human relationships. So I don’t really buy what you’re saying here.