Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

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

4 reviews

stebo24's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Addiction, and Drug abuse

tiernanhunter's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Classism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Genocide, Miscarriage, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Drug use, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Ableism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Abandonment, Antisemitism, Bullying, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Trafficking, Gun violence, Medical content, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Self harm, and Toxic relationship

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

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