Dan Anderson (March 30, 1921 – February 19, 2003) 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] Anderson was born in Minneapolis and studied at the College of St. Thomas, where he received a B.A.
in Clinical psychology from Chicago's Loyola University, he began consulting and lecturing at Hazelden in 1957.