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In the realm of hungry ghosts : close encounters with addiction /

By: Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, ©2010.Description: xviii, 495 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781556438806
  • 155643880X
Other title:
  • Close encounters with addiction
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Contents:
Foreword / Peter Levine -- 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.
Summary: "This insightful book explores the scientific and psychological causes of addiction, as well as the impact on the addicts treated at the Downtown Eastside Vancouver clinic where Maté is a physician. He widens the lens to address the larger societal problem--speaking also to the risks of more "high-status" addictions, such as wealth, power, and sex. He boldly challenges the War on Drugs, proposing a more holistic, constructive set of alternatives. A riveting, debate-provoking book about an illness that reaches all levels of society, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts provides a much-needed glimpse of hope from an innovator who is taking on addiction with startling clarity, vision, and wisdom."--Page 4 of cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Peter Levine -- 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.

"This insightful book explores the scientific and psychological causes of addiction, as well as the impact on the addicts treated at the Downtown Eastside Vancouver clinic where Maté is a physician. He widens the lens to address the larger societal problem--speaking also to the risks of more "high-status" addictions, such as wealth, power, and sex. He boldly challenges the War on Drugs, proposing a more holistic, constructive set of alternatives. A riveting, debate-provoking book about an illness that reaches all levels of society, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts provides a much-needed glimpse of hope from an innovator who is taking on addiction with startling clarity, vision, and wisdom."--Page 4 of cover.

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