Member Bio

Biography

A. Tom Horvath, Ph.D., ABPP, is founder and president of Practical Recovery, a self-empowering addiction treatment system in San Diego, past president of the American Psychological Association’s Society of Addiction Psychology (Div 50), the world’s largest organization of addiction psychologists, past president of the San Diego Psychological Association, author of Sex, Drugs, Gambling & Chocolate: A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions (a “Self-Help Book of Merit” of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies) and volunteer president of SMART Recovery, an international non-profit offering free, self-empowering, science-based mutual help groups for abstaining from any substance or activity. In 2015 he was received the Distinguished Contribution to Psychology award by the San Diego Psychological Association.