About the Book: In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts
' Dr Gabor Maté is one of the worlds 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