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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté

4 reviews

jess_always_reading's review

challenging informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

Dr. Maté is absolutely worth a read and his book has a wealth of information on addiction, societal stigma, and trauma. However, some parts of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts are a bit outdated esp cially when it comes to some best practices & inclusive language so a critical eye is important when reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Police brutality, Murder, Mental illness, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Suicide, Colonisation, Chronic illness, Cancer, Pregnancy, Incest, Drug use, Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Terminal illness, Self harm, and Infidelity

fjette's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Maté focuses a little too much on his own addictive tendencies for my taste, also feels as though there may be too much pathologized/compared to addiction. Overall though, super powerful, interesting, and informative. Loved the evidence-based policy recommendations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Antisemitism, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Incest, and Abandonment

cameliam's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Dr. Gabor Maté expresses courageously the truths of the addicted person. Moving us away from our view of the addict only as someone living on the streets, addicted to the most illegal of drugs, to addressing the addicted personality that blends into what we call our «productive » society. Knowing we can only heal by addressing the route causes of the addicted brain: how it was not allowed to properly form during childhood.  This book teaches us that through compassionate and curious approaches only will we be able to soften the grips of addiction. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Rape, Racism, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, and Violence

smallredboy's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

Very touching book that talks about addiction in an incredibly personal and empathetic light. It has changed my perception of a lot of issues in our society and has made me more aware of the need of harm reduction all over the world. While it sometimes felt lacking in certain topics (LGBT people's propensity to addiction because of discrimination and the role of antiblackness in the War on Drugs, for example), I can blame this mostly on the fact the book was published in 2007, and research about LGBT people and substance abuse really only started in the 2010s. Still, with so many mentions about HIV, I expected at least a passing mention of gay people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Terminal illness, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Incest, Child abuse, Genocide, War, Abandonment, and Pregnancy