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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
- Author
- Gabor Maté
- Narrator
- Daniel Maté
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 4 October 2018
- Run Time
- 15 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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The audiobook edition of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté, read by Daniel Maté.
The award-winning bestseller on the root causes of addiction – and how to heal it – from the author of When the Body Say No, Dr Gabor Maté
What causes addiction? And how can we truly heal from it?
In his profound and compassionate book, leading voice in trauma and addiction recovery, Dr Gabor Maté, explores the psychology of addiction and the path to self-understanding and healing.
As 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 his groundbreaking work, now updated with a new chapter on the Opioid crisis, Maté takes a holistic and compassionate approach to addiction, whether to alcohol, drugs, sex, money or anything self-destructive. He presents addiction 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, Maté 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, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is a compassionate must-read that has transformed how we think about healing, trauma, and addiction.
‘[Maté] is a healer to be cherished’ Naomi Klein, bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine
'One of the most important, wise and compassionate voices in the world on addiction. Everyone should read this profound book' Johann Hari, author of Lost Connections
© Gabor Maté 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2018
Critics Review
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Gabor Maté’s connections—between the intensely personal and the global, the spiritual and the medical, the psychological and the political—are bold, wise and deeply moral. He is a healer to be cherished and this exciting book arrives at just the right time
Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine
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Gabor Maté is one of the most important, wise and compassionate voices in the world on addiction. Everyone should read this profound book
Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
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I recommend this wonderful book for anyone struggling with the heartache of addiction personally or professionally. Gabor Maté makes the thought-provoking and powerful arguments that human connections heal; and that the poverty of relationships in the modern world contribute to our vulnerability to unhealthy addictions of all manner. His uniquely humane perspective—all too absent from much of the ‘modern’ approach to addictions—should be a part of the training of all therapists, social workers, and physicians
Bruce Perry, MD, PhD, Child Trauma Academy Houston, and co-author of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
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With unparalleled sympathy for the human condition, Gabor Maté depicts the suffocation of the spirit by addictive urges, and holds up a dark mirror to our society. This is a powerful narrative of the realm of human nature where confused and conflicted emotions underlie our pretensions to rational thought
Dr Jaak Panksepp, author of Affective Neuroscience
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In its sheer force, originality and deep scholarship, this book represents a landmark in the theory, treatment and prevention of addictive disorders. No-one seriously interested in this subject can afford not to be aware of what it says about addiction and how we should respond to it
Nick Heather PhD, Northumbria University, UK
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An insightful, multilayered discussion of the nature of addiction generally, and our society’s epidemic of addictions in particular
Globe and Mail
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Details
- Author
- Gabor Maté
- Narrator
- Daniel Maté
- Duration
- 15 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 October 2018
- ISBN
- 9781473565456
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Genre
- Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems, Addiction and therapy, Coping with / advice about mental health issues or topics, Self-help, personal development and practical advice
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook edition of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté, read by Daniel Maté.The award-winning bestseller on the root causes of addiction – and how to heal it – from the author of When the Body Say No, Dr Gabor MatéWhat causes addiction? And how can we truly heal from it? In his profound and compassionate book, leading voice in trauma and addiction recovery, Dr Gabor Maté, explores the psychology of addiction and the path to self-understanding and healing.As 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 his groundbreaking work, now updated with a new chapter on the Opioid crisis, Maté takes a holistic and compassionate approach to addiction, whether to alcohol, drugs, sex, money or anything self-destructive. He presents addiction 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, Maté 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, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is a compassionate must-read that has transformed how we think about healing, trauma, and addiction.‘[Maté] is a healer to be cherished’ Naomi Klein, bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine 'One of the most important, wise and compassionate voices in the world on addiction. Everyone should read this profound book' Johann Hari, author of Lost Connections© Gabor Maté 2018 (P) Penguin Audio 2018
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