Love and Addiction

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 on Love and Addiction

Contents

• Author’s Preface to the 1991 edition
• Introduction

1. ‘Til Death Do Us Part
2. What Addiction Is, and What It Has to Do with Drugs
3. A General Theory of Addiction
4. “Love” as an Addiction
5. Addicted Lovers Together
6. Growing Up Addicted
7. The Addicted Society
8. Addicted Lovers Apart
9. Society and Personal Growth
10. Getting Ourselves Together
11. From Addiction to Love

• Appendix

Dr. Stanton Peele, recognized as one of the world's leading addiction experts, developed the Life Process Program after decades of research, writing, and treatment about and for people with addictions. Dr. Peele is the author of 14 books. His work has been published in leading professional journals and popular publications around the globe.