Stanton Peele
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Stanton Peele, Ph. D., J.D., is a licensed psychologist, attorney, practicing psychotherapist 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 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 presented Peele with its 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].
According to Dr. Peele's experential/environmental approach, addictions are negative patterns of behavior that most people experience to some degree at least for periods of time during their lives. He views addictions as not necessarily 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.
Peele's belief that alcoholism and addictions are not biologically based diseases is opposed by many in the alcoholism treatment, education, and prevention fields. Although most medical and psychological associations define alcoholism as a disease, there is still significant controversy regarding this point.
He is the author of nine books and over 150 professional publications. Peele has three children: Dana, Haley and Anna. He lives in Chatham, New Jersey, and spends his free evenings listening to the Irish songwriter Damien Rice.
