Project Description
Guy du Plessis
About
Guy du Plessis has a Master’s degree in psychology from the University of South Africa and is currently pursuing postgraduate studies in philosophy at the University of Cape Town. He is a research consultant and instructor at the I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies at Utah State University, and a faculty member at the Wayne Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy, Loyola University Chicago. He has worked in the mental health field for over 20 years as an addictions counselor, program & clinical director, program developer, trainer, academic and researcher. He is the author of An Integral Guide to Recovery: Twelve Steps and Beyond (Integral Publishers), An Integral Foundation for Addiction: Beyond the Biopsychosocial Model, co-author of the Mind-Body Workbook for Addiction: Effective Tools for Relapse Prevention and Recovery, Social Unrest: Resolving the Dichotomies Between You/Me and Us/Them, and Resilient Mind Skills and a contributing author to Opioids in South Africa: Towards a Policy of Harm Reduction (Human Sciences Research Council Press), and has published in the fields of addiction treatment and studies, theoretical psychology and philosophy.
Works by Guy du Plessis
An Integral Foundation for Addition Treatment: Beyond the Biopsychosocial Model
An Integral Guide to Recovery: Twelve Steps and Beyond