In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Mate (En
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- A groundbreaking work on the root causes of addiction - and how to heal it - from the legendary Dr Gabor Mate
- To heal addiction, you have to go back to the start.
Featured on Russell Brand's podcast Under the Skin
- Dr Gabor Mate is one of the world's most revered thinkers on the psychology of addiction. His radical findings - based on decades of work with patients challenged by catastrophic drug addiction and mental illness - are reframing how we view all human development.
- In this award-winning modern classic, Gabor Mate takes a holistic and compassionate approach to addiction, whether to alcohol, drugs, sex, money or anything self-destructive. He presents it not as a discrete phenomenon confined to a weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs through (and even underpins) our society; not as a medical 'condition', but rather the result of a complex interplay of personal history, emotional development and brain chemistry.
- Distilling cutting-edge research from around the world, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts avoids glib self-help remedies, instead promoting self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness. Blending personal stories and science with positive solutions, and written in spellbinding prose, it is a must-read that will change how you see yourself, others and the world.
- 10th anniversary edition, updated with new chapter on the Opiod crisis