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| Genre/Form: | Case studies History |
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| Named Person: | Gabor Maté; Gabor Maté |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gabor Maté |
| ISBN: | 9781785042201 1785042203 |
| OCLC Number: | 1106373448 |
| Description: | xxix, 465 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Hungry ghosts: The realm of addiction -- Part I: Hellbound train -- The only home he's ever had -- The lethal hold of drugs -- The keys of paradise: Addiction as a flight from distress -- You wouldn't believe my life story -- Angela's grandfather -- Pregnancy journal -- Beethoven's birth room -- There's got to be some light -- Part II: Physician, heal thyself -- Takes one to know one -- Twelve-step journal: April 5, 2006 -- Part III: A different state of the brain -- What is addiction? -- From Vietnam to "Rat Park": Do drugs cause addiction? -- A different state of the brain -- Through a needle, a warm, soft hug -- Cocaine, dopamine, and candy bars: The incentive system in addiction -- Like a child not released -- Part IV: How the addicted brain develops -- Their brains never had a chance -- Trauma, stress, and the biology of addiction -- It's not in the genes -- Part V: The addiction process and the addictive personality -- "A void I'll do anything to avoid" -- Too much time on external things: The addiction-prone personality -- Poor substitutes for love: Behavioral addictions and their origins -- Part VI: Imagining humane reality: Beyond the war on drugs -- The social roots of addiction -- Know thine enemy -- "Ignorant fanaticism": The failed war on drugs -- Freedom of choice and the choice of freedom -- Toward an enlightened social policy on drugs -- Reducing harm -- Part VII: The ecology of healing -- The power of compassionate curiousity -- The internal climate -- The four steps, plus one -- Sobriety and the external milieu -- A word to families, friends, and caregivers -- There is nothing lost: Addiction and the spiritual quest -- Appendix I: Fallacies of adoption and twin studies -- Appendix II: A close link: Attention deficit disorder and addictions -- Appendix III: The prevention of addiction -- Appendix IV: The twelve steps. |
| Other Titles: | Close encounters with addiction. |
| Responsibility: | Gabor Maté. |
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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 * 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 * 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 * 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 * 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 * Read more...
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