Stanton Peele Quotes

Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not “sobriety” and meetings.

People no longer know how to apologize, which is particularly noticeable among athletes, politicians, and entertainment figures.

The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience.

Anger management (which is a part of both public displays of rage and spouse abuse) is about changing a person's internal reactions to events (how they see their behavior) by changing the support environment for the behavior (making them see the behavior is wrong).

When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature.

When spectators and fans say about drunken brawls, violence, and dog fights, "Well, football players are prone to these things - that's why we admire them," they are encouraging terribly detrimental behavior. You might even say - a la Roman gladiators - they are egging on this behavior.

We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.