Guy du Plessis

Guy du Plessis is a South African addictions specialist, philosophical practitioner, academic, author and publisher. 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 where he conducted research at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, and the Research Center for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy. He 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 Counseling Association).

He currently works as a researcher and instructor at the I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies, Utah State University, and as a faculty member at the 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.

He 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 have published in various academic journals, including "Addiction" and "International Journal of Applied Philosophy," in the fields of addiction treatment and studies, theoretical psychology and applied philosophy. His latest book, "Building Recovery Resilience: Addiction Recovery and Relapse Prevention Workbook," was published by Cambridge University Press, and his next book "Recovery Resilience Program Facilitator's Guide" (Cambridge University Press) is forthcoming in 2025. He is currently working on a chapter for the "Oxford Handbook of Philosophy as a Way of Life" (Oxford University Press).