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A Brief Bio
Guy is a South African addictions specialist, philosophical practitioner, academic, author and publisher. He studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Cape Town, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and University of South Africa and is a registered psychological counsellor (Health Professions Council of South Africa), trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy (Loyola University Chicago), and a certified logic-based therapist and trainer (National Philosophical Counselling Association).
Guy has worked in the mental health field for over 20 years as a counselor, clinical and program director, and has developed and managed several inpatient addiction treatment programs. As an academic Guy has worked as an adjunct professor and researcher in the United States, as a part-time and guest lecturer at South African Universities, and was a visiting scholar at KU Leuven (Belgium) where he conducted research at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, and the Husserl Archives, Research Center for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy. Guy currently work as a researcher and instructor at the I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies, Utah State University, and as a faculty member at the Wayne Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy, Loyola University Chicago. He is the director of the South African Logic-based Therapy and Consulting Institute, and the owner and editor-in-chief of Phronesis Publishing, an imprint that publishes academic and trade books on applied philosophy.
Guy is the author of “An Integral Guide to Recovery: Twelve Steps and Beyond” (Integral Publishers), “An Integral Foundation for Addiction Treatment: Beyond the Biopsychosocial Model” (Integral Publishers), co-author of the “Mind-Body Workbook for Addiction: Effective Tools for Relapse Prevention and Recovery” (New Harbinger), “Social Unrest: Resolving the Dichotomies Between You/Me and Us/Them” (Utah State University), and “Resilient Mind Skills Workbook” (Utah State University) and a contributing author to Current Approaches in Addiction Psychology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), and “Opioids in South Africa: Towards a Policy of Harm Reduction” (Human Sciences Research Council Press), and has published in various academic journals in the fields of addiction treatment and studies, theoretical psychology and applied philosophy. Guy’s next book, “Building Recovery Resilience: Addiction Recovery and Relapse Prevention Workbook” will be published by Cambridge University Press.
Websites, Media, Resources
https://philpeople.org/profiles/guy-pierre-du-plessis
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