Stanton Peele 3229131 224464242 2008-07-08T23:18:17Z Mr Miles 4310054 If you continue to revert without discussion you will be banned again {{TOCright}} '''Stanton Peele''', Ph. D., J.D., (born [[January 8]], [[1946]]) is a licensed [[psychologist]], [[attorney]], practicing [[psychotherapist]] and the author of books and articles on the subject of [[alcoholism]], [[addiction]] and treatment.<ref>http://www.peele.net/about/cv.html</ref> He won the 1994 [[Alfred R. Lindesmith]] Award for achievement in the Field of Scholarship from the Drug Policy Foundation, Washington, DC,<ref>[http://www.peele.net/aab/dpf.html Alfred R. Lindesmith Award for Achievement in Scholarship, Drug Policy Foundation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and the 1989 Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies Mark Keller Award for Alcohol Studies for his article "The limitations of control-of-supply models for explaining and preventing alcoholism and drug addiction," JSA, 48:61-77, 1987. This last award, however, is often attributed to Cold War hysteria, and is no longer recognized by most alcohol governing bodies.<ref>[http://www.peele.net/aab/keller.html Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ====''Love and Addiction''==== Peele began his critique of standard notions of addiction in 1975 when he published ''Love and Addiction'' (coauthored with Archie Brodsky).<ref>[http://www.peele.net/lib/laa.html Love and Addiction<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>According to Peele's experiential/environmental approach, addictions are negative patterns of behavior that result from an over-attachment people form to experiences generated from a range of involvements. Most people experience addiction to some degree at least for periods of time during their lives. He does not view addictions as medical problems but as "problems of life" that most people overcome. <ref>[http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/1053972711.html Censorship in Science<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The failure to do so is the exception rather than the rule, he argues.<ref>[http://www.peele.net/philosophy/index.html Stanton Peele's Approach<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ====Views on alcoholism==== Peele's belief that alcoholism and other addictions are not biologically based diseases is in opposition to research on the subject and unaccepted by many in the alcoholism treatment, education, and prevention fields.<ref>[http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/278/5335/45 Addiction Is a Brain Disease, and It Matters, Alan I. Leshner, et al., Science 278, 45 (1997)]</ref> Peele challenged the total abstinence method of dealing with addiction in a [[Psychology Today]] article which compared the ''Life Process Program'' with the ''disease model''.<ref>[http://www.peele.net/lib/allornothing.html Recovering from an All-or-Nothing Approach to Alcohol<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Peele attempts on his website to debunk the views of Alan Leshner and others that addiction is a brain disease. <ref>[http://www.peele.net/lib/hungry.html Hungry for The Next Fix: Behind the relentless, misguided search for a medical cure for addiction<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ====Views on 12 Step Treatment==== In a co-authored book, ''Resisting 12 step Coercion'', Peele attempts to address issues of court mandated attendance of [[twelve-step program|twelve-step]] drug and alcohol treatment programs. In his book, he argues that these treatment programs are useless and sometimes harmful, he presents research on alternative treatment options and accuses some addiction providers of routine violation of standard medical ethics.<ref> Peele, Stanton ''"Resisting 12 Step Coercion"'' Book Online : http://www.morerevealed.com/library/resist/</ref> ====Publications==== Peele is the author of nine books including, in addition to ''Love and Addiction'', ''The Meaning of Addiction'' (1985/1998), ''Diseasing of America'' (1989), ''The Truth about Addiction and Recovery'' (with Archie Brodsky and Mary Arnold, 1991), ''Resisting 12-Step Coercion'' (with Charles Bufe and Archie Brodsky, 2001), ''7 Tools to Beat Addiction'' (2004), and ''Addiction-Proof Your Child'' (2007), as well as 200 professional publications. ==Criticism== In a review of ''The Meaning of Addiction'', Addiction researcher Dr [[Griffith Edwards]] described his ambivalence to Peele's work: {{Quote|"With these and other issues treated in cavalier fashion, with referencing highly incomplete and crucial work often ignored, one begins to feel that this is a book where polemic and scholarship have become inextricably and unhappily mixed. ... Peele is not only a psychologist of distinction, but someone who can make use of sociological and biological ideas. ... So there's the dilemma."|Griffith Edwards|Review of ''The Meaning of Addiction''.<ref>[[Griffith Edwards]]. ''The Meaning of Addiction'' (book review). ''British Journal of Addiction'', Dec85, Vol. 80 Issue 4, p447-448.</ref>}} ==References== {{reflist|2}} ==External links== *[http://www.peele.net/ The Stanton Peele Addiction Website] {{DEFAULTSORT:Peele, Stanton}} [[Category:1946 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American psychologists]] [[Category:American health and wellness writers]] [[Category:Psychotherapists]]