A groundbreaking work on the root causes of addiction - and how to heal it - from the legendary Dr Gabor Mate
Gabor Mate is a retired physician who, after 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, worked for over a decade in Vancouver's Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. The bestselling author of four books published in twenty-five languages, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts- Close Encounters with Addiction, Gabor is an internationally renowned speaker highly sought after for his expertise on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship of stress and illness. For his ground-breaking medical work and writing he has been awarded the Order of Canada, his country's highest civilian distinction, and the Civic Merit Award from his hometown, Vancouver. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Criminology, Simon Fraser University. To learn more, join his e-news list at www.drgabormate.com.
Gabor Mate'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 *
Gabor Mate 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 *
I recommend this wonderful book for anyone struggling with the
heartache of addiction personally or professionally. Gabor Mate
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 *
With unparalleled sympathy for the human condition, Gabor Mate
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 *
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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