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Peele's belief that alcoholism and addictions are not biologically based diseases is in opposition to some research on the subject and unaccepted by some 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's belief that alcoholism and addictions are not biologically based diseases is in opposition to some research on the subject and unaccepted by some 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> |
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Peele has challenged the concept of total abstinence as a method of dealing with addiction and an article which compares the ''Life Process Program'' versus the ''disease model'' appeared in [[Psychology Today]].<ref>[http://www.peele.net/lib/allornothing.html Recovering from an All-or-Nothing Approach to Alcohol<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In |
Peele has challenged the concept of total abstinence as a method of dealing with addiction and an article which compares the ''Life Process Program'' versus the ''disease model'' appeared in [[Psychology Today]].<ref>[http://www.peele.net/lib/allornothing.html Recovering from an All-or-Nothing Approach to Alcohol<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In an online library he attempts to debunk Alan Leshner addiction as brain disease theory.<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> as well as tackling social issues and beliefs regarding addiction. |
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Revision as of 11:04, 22 May 2008
Stanton Peele, Ph. D., J.D., (born January 8, 1946) is a licensed psychologist[citation needed], attorney[citation needed], practicing psychotherapist[citation needed] and the author of numerous books and articles on the subject of alcoholism, addiction and treatment. His contribution to the field of alcoholism has won him several awards including the 1994 Alfred R. Lindesmith Award for achievement in the Field of Scholarship from the Drug Policy Foundation, Washington, DC,[1] and in 1989 the 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.[2]
Love and Addiction
Dr. Peele began his critique of standard notions of addiction in 1975 when he published Love and Addiction (coauthored with Archie Brodsky).[3]According to Dr. 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. [4] The failure to do so is the exception rather than the rule, he argues.[5]
Views on alcoholism
Peele's belief that alcoholism and addictions are not biologically based diseases is in opposition to some research on the subject and unaccepted by some in the alcoholism treatment, education, and prevention fields.[6]
Peele has challenged the concept of total abstinence as a method of dealing with addiction and an article which compares the Life Process Program versus the disease model appeared in Psychology Today.[7] In an online library he attempts to debunk Alan Leshner addiction as brain disease theory.[8] as well as tackling social issues and beliefs regarding addiction.
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.[9]
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 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.[10]
References
- ^ 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.