Bruce Carruth, Ph.D.
Licensed Certified Social Worker, Texas

Bruce is a social worker in private practice in San Miguel de Allende, Gto., Mexico. He has taught his humanistically and psychodynamically based psychotherapy process throughout North and Central America and Europe for over 30 years and offers a variety of personal growth opportunities to individuals and couples living in or visiting San Miguel.

SOME BACKGROUND:

Education

B.A. Louisiana College, Pineville, La., Psychology
M.S.W. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La
Ph.D. Rutgers University, Social Work, New Brunswick, NJ
NIMH Fellow: Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Faculty Appointments

Rutgers University, 1970-73: Center of Alcohol Studies
University of Arkansas - Little Rock: 1973 - 80: Graduate School of Social Work,
     Assistant Professor and Director, The MidSouth Center on Alcohol Problems
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences:1980 - 83: Department of Family and Community Medicine,
     Assistant Professor and Director, Addictions Training Prog.

Teaching

Since 1976, leader of over 600 workshops throughout the US, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean and Central America on topics of addictions, psychotherapy, character (personality) structure, psychological trauma and family functioning.
Faculty, since 1972, Rutgers Summer School of Alcohol Studies
Founding Director, MidSouth Summer School of Alcohol and Drug Studies

Author

Co-dependency: Issues in Treatment and Recovery (with Warner Mendenhall, Ph.D.) Haworth Press, 1989.
Psychological Trauma and Addiction Treatment, Haworth Press, 2006
Author of over 40 papers and manuscripts on addiction treatment, codependency, characterological dynamics and family treatment.

Honors and Awards:

Addictions Counselor of the Year, Arkansas, 1984
Marital and Family Counselor of the Year, Arkansas, 1992
Invited, Non-alcoholic speaker at 50th Anniversary World Convention of Alcoholics Anonymous,      Montreal, Canada, 1985

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