About the AuthorStanton Peele has been a cutting-edge figure in the addiction field for four decades since the publication of Love and Addiction in 1975. He has been a leader in opening up the field to an experiential, culturally and environmentally sensitive understanding of addiction and to practical, life-management approaches to treatment, harm reduction, and self-help. Along the way, Stanton has written 12 books (including The Meaning of Addiction, Diseasing of America, The Truth About Addiction and Recovery, 7 Tools to Beat Addiction, and Addiction-Proof Your Child) and 250 professional articles, won numerous awards (including from the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs and the Drug Policy Alliancethe leading drug policy reform organization in America), and created the Life Process Program for addiction treatment, which continues to be utilized worldwide. His latest book, Recover! An Empowering Program to Help You Stop Thinking Like an Addict and Reclaim Your Life, (Da Capo, 2014), written with Ilse Thompson, incorporates mindfulness and meditation techniques into a comprehensive self-help program. Stanton also lectures on addiction around the world and has blogged as an addiction expert for The Fix (http://www.thefix.com/tags/stanton-peele), Psychology Today (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/addiction-in-society), Reason (http://reason.com/people/stanton-peele/all), Rehabs.com (http://www.rehabs.com/author/stanton-peele/), Substance.com (www.substance.com/author/stanton-peele/), and The Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stanton-peele/). He was named the best addiction blogger by All Treatment and one of the ten most influential figures in the addiction field by The Fix. is it profitable to sell on Love and Addiction (Signet)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Read this book in the 70's. Still extremely thoughtful wiseBy Dr. Edward M. TauberToo many relationships take on an addictive quality. Those who have personality disorders are most likely to want an all consuming relationship that is both abusive and restrictive. But both parties have to participate. So it becomes a mutual codependency. It can only happen when we are not afraid to be alone with only ourselves as support. The authors make clear love is not need. When we need, we risk becoming addicted to the one person who can provide it. When that one person is us, we can avoid addictive relationships.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great BookBy Pinar TosunI read and have gifted many copies to friends. I am an avid reader and this book is connecting science, research and human psychology in a very successful way. It explains many addictive human behaviour and the globalisation of addictive personality . Highly recommend it.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. a bit datedBy Albert PotashWhen it first came out , decades ago, it absolutely but addiction theory on it's head. To consider non chemical addictions was groundbreaking. At this time it's a bit dated due to it's psychoanalytic- 70's Rhetoric .