In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

<p><b>To heal addiction you have to go back to the start&#133;</b><br><br><i>Featured on Russell Brand&#146;s podcast Under the Skin </i><br><br>Dr Gabor Mat&#233; is one of the world&#146;s most revered thinkers on the psychology of addiction. His radical findings &#150; based on decades of work with patients challenged by catastrophic drug addiction and mental illness &#150; are reframing how we view <i>all</i> human development.<br><br>In this award-winning modern classic Gabor Mat&#233; 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 &#145;condition&#146; but rather the result of a complex interplay of personal history emotional development and brain chemistry.<br><br>Distilling cutting-edge research from around the world <i>In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts</i> avoids glib self-help remedies instead promoting self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness. Blending personal stories and science with positive solutions and written in spellbinding prose it is a must-read that will change how you see yourself others and the world.<br><br><i>10th anniversary edition updated with new chapter on the Opiod crisis</i></p>