In the first chapter Lewis makes a good case against the disease model of addiction. He then spends the rest of the book redundantly hammering his points in. This book was so repetitive that I was ready to toss it across the room.

The stories of the 5 individuals used as examples were interesting and in agreement with his point....but with each example he reiterated his objections to the disease model.

Conversely, he did not go as far as I feel he could have into how, in understanding the role of desire, people could make important life changes.

All together this would have made a great article in a psych publication. There just wasn't enough information there to fill a 200+ pate book.