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Jeffrey Schaler

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Jeffrey Schaler's Degrees

PhD Psychology American University
Masters Psychology American University
Bachelors Psychology University of Maryland, College Park

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According to Wikipedia, Jeffrey Alfred Schaler is a psychologist, author, editor, retired professor of justice, law, and society at American University, and former member of the psychology faculty at Johns Hopkins University. He is a prominent critic of psychiatric claims and practices, especially of treatment without consent. Schaler opposes the medicalization of addiction. He has had a private practice in existential therapy since the 1970s.

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Jeffrey Schaler's Published Works

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Addiction Is a Choice (1999) (42)
The Addiction Belief Scale. (1995) (36)
Spiritual Thinking in Addiction-Treatment Providers (1996) (35)
Howard Gardner under fire : the rebel psychologist faces his critics (2006) (31)
Addiction Beliefs of Treatment Providers: Factors Explaining Variance (1997) (24)
Drugs and free will (1991) (16)
Anti-Semitism the World Over in the Twenty-first Century (2007) (12)
Smoking: Who Has the Right? (1998) (6)
Hello . . . I Must Be Going (2013) (5)
Alcoholism as willful misconduct. (1989) (3)
PETER SINGER Under Fire The Dangerous Ethicist Faces His Critics (2014) (2)
Thomas S. Szasz: The Man and His Ideas (2017) (2)
Moral Hygiene (1878) (2)
What Thomas S. Szasz Has Wrought: A Mixed Assessment (2017) (1)
Patients who refuse food and fluids to hasten death. (2003) (1)
Psychopharmacology Straight Talk On Mental Health Medications Third Edition Medications Third Edition Medications Third Edition Medications Third Edition Medications Third Edition (2017) (1)
Book review by Jeffrey A. Schaler of Richard E. Vatz’s, The Only Authentic Book of Persuasion: The Salience-Agenda/Meaning-Spin Model Second Edition/Revised (Dubuque, Iowa: KendallHunt, July 2013 edition) 102 pages. ISBN-10: 0757590578; ISBN-13: 978-0757590573 Product Dimensions: 7.2 × 9 inches $37. (2013) (1)
Books in review (2000) (0)
Introduction to the Special Issue on Anti-Semitism (2007) (0)
’ s , The Only Authentic Book of Persuasion : The Salience-Agenda / Meaning-Spin Model Second Edition / Revised ( Dubuque , Iowa : KendallHunt , July 2013 (2013) (0)
JLS 308-001: Justice, Morality and the Law - course syllabus (2009) (0)
Hello . . . I Must Be Going (2013) (0)
JLS 301-001: Drugs, Consciousness, and Human Fulfillment - course syllabus (2008) (0)
Michael Edelstein, Ph.D., Richard K. Kujoth, Ed.D., and David Ramsay Steele, Ph.D.: Therapy Breakthrough: Why Some Psychotherapies Work Better than Others (2013) (0)
Michael Edelstein, Ph.D., Richard K. Kujoth, Ed.D., and David Ramsay Steele, Ph.D.: Therapy Breakthrough: Why Some Psychotherapies Work Better than Others (2013) (0)
Book Review (2003) (0)
Slavery and psychiatry (2003) (0)
RAPID RESPONSES FROM BMJ.COM (2004) (0)
Addiction Belief Scale (2016) (0)
Statement from the executive editor (2005) (0)

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