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Stanton Peele, Ph.D. For a half century, at least, American psychiatry and its fellow travelers have been cheerleading a descent into madness. We stand on the threshold of advances in the biological sciences so relevant to psychopathology that one...

  By Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads We have been watching the Johnny Depp lawsuit against Amber Heard with great interest. Except we don’t care if Johnny Depp wins his defamation suit against Amber Heard. Nor will we render...

Quinta Brunson licked the toughest addiction— with purpose. Quinta Brunson—creator, writer and star of ABC’s Abbott Elementary—has written something of an addiction manual in her 2021 memoir, She Memes Well. In all of Brunson’s work, she reckons to have...

CLICK HERE to view our podcast related to this story Kaila Yu contemplated in the Times whether love addiction is real, an actual motivation for behavior. It was strong enough for a young woman to stab to death her...

The Life Process Program addresses addiction, and yet it deals with love and relationships. How do those fit with addiction? Love & Relationship addictions exist when a person devotes themselves so much to one type of experience or involvement...

Power monster Harvey Weinstein isn’t after sex, primarily. What does he want? This post is in response to The 7 hardest addictions to quit – love is the worst! by Stanton Peele Everyone agrees that Harvey Weinstein is a...

This is a wide-ranging talk about addiction and today’s youth and teens. Dr. Horvath, SMART’s President, interviews Dr. Stanton Peele on what is needed in society, in public policy, for parents, and for those in the caring and justice...

Chapter 4 | Contents In: Peele, S., with Brodsky, A. (1975), Love and Addiction. New York: Taplinger. © 1975 Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky. Reprinted with permission from Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc. Appendix A. Responses to Morphine and a...

Contents | Introduction |   In: Peele, S., with Brodsky, A. (1975, 1991), Love and Addiction. New York: Taplinger. © 1975, 1991 Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky. Reprinted with permission from Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc. Authors’ Preface, 1991 Edition...

Preface | Contents | Chapter 1 In: Peele, S., with Brodsky, A. (1975), Love and Addiction. New York: Taplinger. © 1975 Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky. Reprinted with permission from Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc. Introduction “Love” and “addiction”: the...

Chapter 3 | Contents | Appendix | Further Reading   In: Peele, S., with Brodsky, A. (1975), Love and Addiction. New York: Taplinger. © 1975 Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky. Reprinted with permission from Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc. 4. ...

Chapter 2 | Contents | Chapter 4 |   3.  A General Theory of Addiction I hate its weakness more than I like its pleasant futility. I hate it and myself in it all the time I’m dwelling on...

Chapter 1 | Contents | Chapter 3 | Further Reading   2. What Addiction Is, and What It Has to Do with Drugs Breuer preferred what might be called a physiological theory: he thought that the processes which could...

Introduction | Contents | Chapter 2   1. ‘Til Death Do Us Part I need your love to survive Without it I’m just half alive . . . . . . I’m forgetting all my pride I couldn’t leave...

Stanton Peele with Archie Brodsky ©1975, 1991 by Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky Reprinted with permission from Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN # 0-8008-5041-6 There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of. —Joseph Conrad, Victory Views...

Save me from the addict I’m with What should I do? I cheated on my alcoholic husband, now he can’t stop thinking about it I gave up everything for my boyfriend and now that he’s left, I’m desolate I’m...

People can become addicted to other people in the same way they become addicted to drugs. We are not using the term addiction in a metaphorical sense; we mean it literally. The interpersonal dependencies in the cases that follow...