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| '''Stanton Peele''', Ph. D., J.D., (born ], ]) is a licensed ], ], practicing ] and the author of books and articles on the subject of ], ] and treatment.<ref>http://www.peele.net/about/cv.html</ref> He won the 1994 ] Award for achievement in the Field of Scholarship from the Drug Policy Foundation, Washington, DC,<ref></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. .<ref></ref> |
'''Stanton Peele''', Ph. D., J.D., (born ], ]) is a licensed ], ], practicing ] and the author of books and articles on the subject of ], ] and treatment.<ref>http://www.peele.net/about/cv.html</ref> He won the 1994 ] Award for achievement in the Field of Scholarship from the Drug Policy Foundation, Washington, DC,<ref></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></ref> | ||
| ====''Love and Addiction''==== | ====''Love and Addiction''==== | ||
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| 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></ref> | 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></ref> | ||
| Peele challenged the total abstinence method of dealing with addiction in a ] article which compared the ''Life Process Program'' with the ''disease model''.<ref></ref> Peele on his website |
Peele challenged the total abstinence method of dealing with addiction in a ] article which compared the ''Life Process Program'' with the ''disease model''.<ref></ref> Peele attempts on his website to debunk the views of Alan Leshner and others that addiction is a brain disease. <ref></ref> | ||
| ====Views on 12 Step Treatment==== | ====Views on 12 Step Treatment==== | ||
| In a co-authored book, ''Resisting 12 step Coercion'', Peele |
In a co-authored book, ''Resisting 12 step Coercion'', Peele attempts to address issues of court mandated attendance of ] 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==== | ====Publications==== | ||
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| In a review of ''The Meaning of Addiction'', Addiction researcher Dr ] described his ambivalence to Peele's work: | In a review of ''The Meaning of Addiction'', Addiction researcher Dr ] 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>]. ''The Meaning of Addiction'' (book review). ''British Journal of Addiction'', Dec85, Vol. 80 Issue 4, p447-448.</ref>}} | {{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>]. ''The Meaning of Addiction'' (book review). ''British Journal of Addiction'', Dec85, Vol. 80 Issue 4, p447-448.</ref>}} | ||
| It should be noted that Peele in an earlier review had criticized Edwards editoralizing and involvement in a case of plagiarism. In 1983, David Robinson (1983a) had included a chapter entitled "Alcoholics Anonymous: American origins and the international diffusion of a self-help group," in a volume published in Britain by Croom Helm, edited by Griffith Edwards and two others, based on papers which were produced earlier for the World Health Organization. Robinson had to resign and submit and apology for the act. The apology to Levine appeared as a glued insert in subsequent copies of the Edwards et al. (1983) volume issued by Croom Helm<ref> The Continuing Significance of David Robinson's Plagiarism Career </ref> | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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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. He won the 1994 Alfred R. Lindesmith Award for achievement in the Field of Scholarship from the Drug Policy Foundation, Washington, DC, 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.
Love and Addiction
Peele began his critique of standard notions of addiction in 1975 when he published Love and Addiction (coauthored with Archie Brodsky).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. The failure to do so is the exception rather than the rule, he argues.
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.
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. Peele attempts on his website to debunk the views of Alan Leshner and others that addiction is a brain disease.
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 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.
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:
"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.
References
- http://www.peele.net/about/cv.html
- Alfred R. Lindesmith Award for Achievement in Scholarship, Drug Policy Foundation
- Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies
- Love and Addiction
- Censorship in Science
- Stanton Peele's Approach
- Addiction Is a Brain Disease, and It Matters, Alan I. Leshner, et al., Science 278, 45 (1997)
- Recovering from an All-or-Nothing Approach to Alcohol
- Hungry for The Next Fix: Behind the relentless, misguided search for a medical cure for addiction
- Peele, Stanton "Resisting 12 Step Coercion" Book Online : http://www.morerevealed.com/library/resist/
- Griffith Edwards. The Meaning of Addiction (book review). British Journal of Addiction, Dec85, Vol. 80 Issue 4, p447-448.