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To heal addiction, you have to go back to the start…
Dr Gabor Maté 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 Maté 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 Opioid crisis

From the Publisher

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07CJNMY2H
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ebury Digital
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 4 Oct. 2018
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 20.4 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 602 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1473563186
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: 20,073 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) 2 in Drug & Chemical Abuse Addiction & Recovery 15 in Health Recovery eBooks 15 in Popular Medicine
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