Addiction in Society

Addiction—the thematic malady for our society—entails every type of psychological and societal problem

Stanton Peele Ph.D.

Trauma-Less Films About Women

In two great recent films, 'Nomadland' and 'Where’d Ya Go, Bernadette,' traumas and diagnoses are foregone.

Love Addiction Is the Worst III: The Billie Holliday Story

Billie Holliday’s story of self-destruction, however “justified,” is nonetheless intolerable. But are we speaking about heroin or love?

Understanding an Alternative Addiction Reality

Some prominent celebrities embrace a recovery brand that is a distant land for the masses of Americans whose lives are most likely to be destroyed by drugs.

How to Get Your Kids Through College

We, and our children, face a challenging world. Here is one map for proceeding through it.

The Development of Greatness

Those who go on to greatness often encounter family and situational obstacles, even trauma. We benefit from studying how they succeed.

The Greatest Family Recovery Film Ever Made

The family works together as flawed human beings to achieve harm reduction recovery in “Babyteeth.”

The Downsides of Humankind

Paleontology, the study of the roots of humanity, doesn’t make for good Holiday reading.

Is Love Addiction Real?

Shia LaBeouf will do anything to have a woman love him. Or must she be addicted to him like he is to her?

The Real Genius of Donald Trump

Genius is the ability to envision and enact a divergent reality. Donald Trump has performed an act of genius on the American polity.

The Challenges Affecting African Americans

We don’t know what to do about declining African American status. We can’t even acknowledge it.

Can Another Presidential Election Be Called?

Nothing can stop the President’s efforts to reverse his electoral loss — except the good faith efforts of those loyal to American democratic traditions.

A Schoolmate’s Death Makes Headlines 40 Years Later

A long-ago death provokes soul searching among social psychologists.

A New Narrative: The “Queen” Doesn’t Go to AA

A popular modern show is about the natural evolution out of addiction.

Celluloid Heroes: Love and Addiction in Hollywood

“Love” is the cruelest addiction: Just watch TCM.

The Trauma of the Windsors

Are the Windsors, as depicted in “The Crown,” victims of trauma? What about William and Harry?

The U.S. Open: 5 Prominent Figures in Women's Tennis

Despite losing in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, Serena Williams is a winner. As is women’s tennis.

Overcoming Trauma in Your Story, I: The Basketball Story

How do we think of traumatic, socially deprived backgrounds? What we can learn from Boston Celtic Kemba Walker.

The Two Worlds of Coronavirus

We live in two different worlds, even — especially? — when it comes to disease, contagion, and death.

Life in the Basketball and Moral Bubble

The NBA had a tough confrontation in one of the opening games of its playoffs in Disney World. Referees acted decisively. Should it apply such strictures throughout the game?

Why Does a Recovery Coach Kill?

We are having a violence epidemic in inner cities: Why? What can we do?

Transgressive Art

Popular novels depict relationship issues that we otherwise are not free to contemplate.

COVID and the Future of Mental Health

The pandemic's effects on society and mental health are deep and irreversible.

The Media Trauma Epidemic

Happy non-traumatized American families have virtually disappeared from media screens. What’s up?

When Paradigms Collide

The United States is undergoing unprecedented conflict around basic questions of racial and social inequality. This unrest is traceable to divergent “paradigms” of reality.

Substance Use Is Dangerous

Are drug use and alcohol often lethal? In several prominent cases, fatalities have instead been due to how others react to substance use, purported or real.

Will America Tolerate Increasing COVID-19 Deaths?

Deaths due to COVID-19 in the U.S. are continuing, and we are projected to reach 200,000. Yet there seems to be a lack of urgency to quell the disease.

Beyond Racism

Can we replace the racism paradigm for explaining and dealing with white and black conflict in America?

The Dangers of Isolation

Coronavirus plays upon our greatest, and most lethal, societal weakness.

Most People Use Substances Positively

Is positive substance use the remedy for rising drug and alcohol deaths in America?

Why Do Young Voters Prefer Sanders?

Although Democratic outcomes are unclear, the young seem to prefer Bernie Sanders.

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