Reseach of mentality and recovering process of alcoholics : Taking a hero in a detective story as an example

Abstract

Based on Matt Scudder series (detective stories) by Lawrence Block, I clarified the situation where an alcoholic run into habitual drinking, his mentality to deny variousproblems caused by drinking, the scene where he was sent to detoxication treatment after unconsciousness, and the process where he admitted being alcoholism. In addition I extracted the process where he took part in Alcoholics Anonymous, got over a crisis and recovered from alcoholics by the support of a sponsor, elucidation the recovering process from the change of the style. I also compard the support system for alcoholics in the United States shown in the novel to the medical care and support system such as self help goups in Japan.