Stanton Peele was born on January 8,1946 and is a psychologist, attorney, psychotherapist and the author of books and articles on the subject of alcoholism, addiction and addiction treatment.
15 Facts About Stanton Peele
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Stanton Peele maintained a concurrent law practice until 2012.
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Stanton Peele inaugurated the Life Process Program as a residential treatment program in Iowa from 2008 to 2011; LPP went online at that point and has been an international coaching service into the present.
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Stanton Peele began his critique of standard notions of addiction when he published Love and Addiction.
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Stanton Peele contends that most people experience addiction to some degree at least for periods of time during their lives.
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Stanton Peele focuses on people's functioning rather than on abstinence or moderation as goals for treating excessive drinking and drug use.
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In Diseasing of America Stanton Peele contested Dr George Vaillant's pro-disease treatise The Natural History of Alcoholism.
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Stanton Peele has been concerned with identifying cultural factors in support of positive alcohol experiences, as well as medical and psychological benefits due to positive drinking practices.
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Stanton Peele has sought to generalize this paradigm to drug use.
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Stanton Peele argued that these treatment programs are useless and sometimes harmful, he presented research on alternative treatment options, and accused some addiction providers of routine violation of standard medical ethics, an accusation that is likewise often leveled at Peele by disease proponents.
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Stanton Peele developed these ideas as the Life Process Program, which was the basis for a non-12 Step residential treatment program and is offered as an online treatment resource by Dr Peele and colleagues.
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Stanton Peele is not only a psychologist of distinction, but someone who can make use of sociological and biological ideas.
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Stanton Peele has done as much as anyone to reveal the inadequacies, absurdities, and injustices of the idea that addiction is a disease and, specifically, that it is a disease of the brain.
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Stanton Peele began his attack on popular conceptions of addiction in 1975, with the publication of Love and Addiction.
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Stanton Peele still played a highly controversial role by pointing out that most drug use is not addictive, that alcoholics and other addicts go through periods of remission and relapse, and that addiction is highly dependent on users' positions in life, their environments, and their social relationships.