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A Biography (Hazelden's Pioneers) - Hardcover
Synopsis
For those who know Hazelden and the Minnesota Model, the name of Dan Anderson will be readily familiar. Any celebration of Hazelden's 50th anniversary is also a celebration of Dan Anderson's contributions, his unflagging advocacy, and his tireless work educating the public and professionals alike about the nature and treatment of alcoholism. This is Anderson's story, from his birth in (with a "wry" neck that, as he often noted, allowed him to see the world from a different angle) to his retirement from the presidency of Hazelden in Damian McElrath recounts Anderson's early education in the school of human experience: working as a sixteen-year-old bartender at the Idle Hours Cage in Williams, Minnesota; "bumming" around the country after high school; serving in the southwest Pacific in World War II; and then returning to start a formal education that would take him from the College of St. Tho
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Dan Anderson (psychologist)
American psychologist
Dan Anderson (March 30, – February 19, ) was an American clinical psychologist and educator. He served as the president and director of the Hazelden Foundation in Center City, Minnesota. He is most associated with the development of the Minnesota Model, the clinical method of addiction treatment, based in part on the twelve-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous. [1][2]
Biography
[edit]Anderson was born in Minneapolis and studied at the College of St. Thomas, where he received a B.A. degree in Starting in he worked at Willmar State Hospital. After having graduated in as a M.A. in Clinical psychology from Chicago's Loyola University, he began consulting and lecturing at Hazelden in
In , he left Willmar and became vice president of Hazelden. In he received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Ottawa. In , he advanced to president of Hazelden, a position he held until his retirement in He also taught for