A calm, unjudging, compassionate attentiveness to what is happening within. 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, why people are so prone to them and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours.'-Womens Health Matters 'Gabor Maté, a front-line professional combating addiction in Canada, questions the premise that addiction is a. Rather, using his own experience as well as the most advanced recent research, he attempts to delineate the closely interrelated psychological, social, and neurological dimensions of addiction. One of the book's strengths is Mate's detailed and compassionate characterization of the afflicted addicts he treats, but this is not just a memoir. I highly recommend Hungry Ghosts to everyone seeking insight into addiction." He chose to write the book because he has insight into the nature of addiction, childhood trauma, and obsessive personality traits. "Mate does a great service by forcing us to confront the us-and-them mentality that drives the get-tough responses to addiction. During the writing of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Maté is the head physician at the Portland Hotel, a housing project for addicts. "A harrowingly honest, compassionate, sometimes angry look at addiction and the people whose lives have been disordered by it." What emerges is nothing short of a revelation." Mate probes deeply into the life histories and psyches of many patients. The book's characteristics seem to describe Mate himself: armed with knowledge and straight from the heart." In today’s book review I try to summarize my main takeaways from Gabor Mates wonderful book In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. "When Mate witnesses and testifies to human suffering, including his own, he is compassionate and compelling." "Mate has expressed ideas in precise and hard-hitting prose that makes complex ideas accessible without dumbing them down.
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