Angela, I agree with you comment in all aspects. These eight chapters are more clear, because provide many reasons of the origins of the addictions. As you said, denial is one of the stages that people in addictions needs to overcome. Marvin is in this stage, in charter fourteen; Marvin is attending to Alcohol Anonymous. Marvin would like to avoid the steps eight and nine of the twelve steps of the recovery, because he does not consider it is necessary. He believes, his addiction behavior does not harm others, only his wife. Denizet-Lewis (2009). According to Barber (1995) Marvin is in the precontemplation stage, this is one of the five stages of change. The other stages are, contemplation, decision-making, action and maintenance. In this article,
