Testimonials
Roget Lockard offers important and
fresh insights into the nature of human craving and addiction. His understanding
of the individual, community and environmental impacts of addictive thinking
and behavior are a penetrating and compelling message for all of us at
this unique and precipitous moment in human history — as are his
particular insights into the physical and existential forces that both
give rise to our addictions initially, and help to perpetuate them on a
daily basis. His is a clarion call for each of us to understand, face and
become free of our attachments to destructive desires, and to extend this
understanding and freedom to all levels of human society.
Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Vice-Abbot of the Zen Center of
NYC in Brooklyn, New York.
To say Roget Lockard is
on the cutting edge of our thinking about addiction sounds cliche, but
it's true. What's more, it doesn't do justice to either him or his work. He
is simply operating on another plane than anyone else in the field. Roget
brings a twenty-first century mindset to a problem that has been with us
since the beginning of time and which our twentieth century solutions have
made worse, rather than better. With the planet undergoing an explosion
of technology that rivals the industrial revolution and the corresponding
increase in global conflict, there has never been a more urgent need for
thinking like his. He is a gifted healer and therapist who has a profound
understanding of both the clinical and the political aspects of the phenomenon
we call addiction and the pain it causes our families and communities and
offers us a path to recovery that builds a much needed bridge between the
scientific and the spiritual. I pray we have the wisdom to follow it.
Jonathan Diamond, Ph.D., author of Narrative Means
to Sober Ends: Treating Addiction and Its Aftermath (Guilford Press,
2000) and Fatherless Sons: Healing The Legacy Of Loss (John Wiley & Sons,
August 2006) is a consultant, writer, adjunct faculty at Smith College
School For Social Work, and practicing psychotherapist specializing in
trauma, addictions and loss.
As the global toll of our
individual and societal addictions and addictive behaviors continues
to mount, it becomes ever more crucial to explore new ways of thinking
about addiction. Drawing on decades of personal and professional experience
with addiction and sobriety, Roget Lockard makes a unique and distinctive
contribution to that end. The model of addiction he has developed over
the years has power to illuminate the dark corners of the multi-dimensional
phenomenon of addiction, and to help all of us who suffer from addiction
find our way, both individually and collectively, into the light of healing.
Frank Seeburger, Ph.D., Prof. of Philosophy, Univ. of
Denver. Author of Emotional Literacy. New York: Crossroad, 1998; Addiction
and Responsibility: An Inquiry into the Addictive Mind. New York:
Crossroad, 1993; The Stream of Thought. New York: Philosophical
Library, 1984.
Roget Lockard’s is
a unique and important voice in the public conversation, one that
always urges us gently along paths of healing and compassionate consciousness.
His graceful teachings and writings, born of decades-long exploration
of the dynamics of addiction in individuals, families and societies,
bring a singular wisdom and a practical perspective to the task of cultivating
sober and healthy lives and relationships. Whether focusing on the conundrums
that emerge in our personal lives, or the struggles and conflicts in
our suffering world, his thinking is informed by insights not commonly
accessed by other analysts. I have no doubt that visitors to his website
will feel welcomed, recognize themselves in the narratives and commentaries
offered there, and gain clarity and illumination regarding this notoriously
confounding subject.
Jonathan Klate, Ph.D.; Author, researcher, and practitioner
of traditional Chinese medicine for over thirty years
Roget Lockard’s thinking about
the complex topic of addiction is both revolutionary and unique. His work
abounds with a wonderful mix of down-to-earth knowledge of addiction, and
at the same time, a transcendent perspective on the breadth and depth of
humankind’s capacity for addictive behavior. Lockard applies his
exciting new thinking about the nature of addiction to all levels of planetary
survival. I feel invigorated by his ideas — always!
Dusty Miller, therapist with more than thirty years in
the addictions field, and author of Addiction and Trauma Recovery; Women
Who Hurt Themselves: Your Surviving Spirit; Stop Running From
Love; and numerous journal articles.
