Guy du Plessis is a South African addiction specialist, philosophical practitioner, academic, and author. He studied psychology at the University of South Africa and philosophy at the University of Cape Town, and was a visiting scholar at KU Leuven at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, and the Research Center for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy. He is a researcher and instructor at the I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies, Utah State University, and an adjunct professor at the Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy, Loyola University Chicago, and is the director of the South African Logic-based Therapy and Consulting Institute. He has published in various journals, including “Addiction” and “International Journal of Applied Philosophy,” in the fields of addiction treatment and studies, theoretical psychology and applied philosophy. He is the author and co-author of six books, including An Integral Foundation for Addiction Treatment (Integral Publishers), and Building Recovery Resilience (Cambridge University Press), and a contributor to several edited volumes, including Opioids in South Africa: Towards a Policy of Harm Reduction (Human Sciences Research Council Press). His next book Recovery Resilience Program Facilitator’s Guide will be published Cambridge University Press.
Email address: guy.duplessis@usu.edu
Institutional webpage: https://philpeople.org/profiles/guy-du-plessis