Stanton Peele Ph.D.

About

Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., lectures internationally on the meaning, treatment, and future of addiction. All Treatment awarded him the Best Academic Addiction Blog for 2012. Dr. Peele has developed the online Life Process Addiction Program. His most recent book is A Scientific Life on the Edge: My Lonely Quest to Change How We See Addiction. Since the publication of Love and Addiction in 1975, Dr. Peele has been a pioneer in applying addiction beyond the area of drugs and alcohol, social-environmental causes of addiction, harm reduction, and self-cure of addiction. He has presented these ideas and data in a series of 12 books—including Love and Addiction, The Meaning of Addiction, Diseasing of America, The Truth About Addiction and Recovery, 7 Tools to Beat Addiction, and Addiction-Proof Your Child—and over 250 professional and popular articles. Recognition for his academic achievements in addiction has included the Mark Keller Award from the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Drug Policy Alliance.

Books by Stanton Peele Ph.D.

Recent Posts

Trauma-Less Films About Women

In two great recent films, 'Nomadland' and 'Where’d Ya Go, Bernadette,' traumas and diagnoses are foregone.

Love Addiction Is the Worst III: The Billie Holliday Story

Billie Holliday’s story of self-destruction, however “justified,” is nonetheless intolerable. But are we speaking about heroin or love?

Understanding an Alternative Addiction Reality

Some prominent celebrities embrace a recovery brand that is a distant land for the masses of Americans whose lives are most likely to be destroyed by drugs.

How to Get Your Kids Through College

We, and our children, face a challenging world. Here is one map for proceeding through it.

The Development of Greatness

Those who go on to greatness often encounter family and situational obstacles, even trauma. We benefit from studying how they succeed.

The Greatest Family Recovery Film Ever Made

The family works together as flawed human beings to achieve harm reduction recovery in “Babyteeth.”

The Downsides of Humankind

Paleontology, the study of the roots of humanity, doesn’t make for good Holiday reading.

Is Love Addiction Real?

Shia LaBeouf will do anything to have a woman love him. Or must she be addicted to him like he is to her?

The Real Genius of Donald Trump

Genius is the ability to envision and enact a divergent reality. Donald Trump has performed an act of genius on the American polity.

The Challenges Affecting African Americans

We don’t know what to do about declining African American status. We can’t even acknowledge it.