Life on the Rocks - Finding Meaning in Addiction and Recovery

Peg O'Connor

Summary

Author writes the popular Psychology Today blog, “Philosophy Stirred, Not Shaken,” with over 375,00 unique hits to her 34 posts to date, and she is a featured columnist for the prestigious column for ProTalks, part of the Rehab.com online community of addiction treatment specialists. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and Huffington Post. Author is the Chair for the 2015 Nobel Conference at Gustavus (her University) titled, “Addiction: The Science and Experience of an Equal Opportunity Condition” (October 6 & 7th, 2015), attended by 4-5,000 addiction treatment specialists, presenting a great opportunity for the book’s launch. Author has 27 years of personal recovery and frequently presents at diverse conferences nationally and internationally.Author writes for Anne Fletcher, author of numerous books on recovery, including the NYT bestselling title Inside Rehab (Penguin, 2013). The only book on addiction and recovery drawing from the western philosophical canon that is aimed toward professionals as well as lay people. Relevant both to people new to recovery and to those in long-term recovery, and does not advocate any one approach torecovery, but is a friendly companion to and compatible with all of them.

Available since: 12/21/2015.

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