Dr. Stanton Peele is an addiction expert, a co-creator of the addiction recovery program called the Life Process Program and the author of a number of books on the subject, starting in 1975 with Love and Addiction, co-authored with Archie Brodsky, and including other seminal works like Diseasing of America and The Meaning of Addiction. His newest book is a memoir titled A Scientific Life on the Edge: My Lonely Quest to Change How We See Addiction.
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**This episode was recorded on July 24, 2021**
DR. STANTON PEELE LINKS
Website: https://peele.net/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/speele5
“A SCIENTIFIC LIFE ON THE EDGE”
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My review of “A Scientific Life on the Edge”: https://ericwhte.com/book-review-a-scientific-life-on-the-edge-by-dr-stanton-peele/
LIFE PROCESS PROGRAM
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Interview with Zach Rhoads: https://ericwhte.com/podcast-035-zach-rhoads-and-whats-wrong-with-how-we-view-addiction/
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introducing Dr. Stanton Peele
05:00 Why write a memoir?
09:42 Understanding Dr. Peele’s model of addiction
20:15 “Analyze me Stanton”
32:49 Trauma, Free Will and Agency
54:55 “A Scientific Life on the Edge”