“…For example, Katherine's metaphor of crawling up from the bottom of a well down in the ground and pulling herself up brick by brick draws on the metaphor of addiction as a journey used in the addiction treatment literature (e.g. Marlatt & Fromme, 1987; Stewart et al , 2005; Weegmann, 2005), and in particular on the metaphor of descent and ascent which has been described as a ‘road towards the rock‐bottom and the way back’ and graphically portrayed as a descending and ascending curve (Glatt, 1975, p. 25). Glatt's curve mirrors AA's understanding of nature of alcohol dependence and recovery (Forcehimes, 2004; Forcehimes, Feldstein, & Miller, 2008).…”