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Gabor Mate on the hungry ghosts of addiction

June 3rd, 2014 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized

gabor matepfr banner working In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction takes a panoramic yet highly intimate look at the widespread and perplexing human ailment of addiction

From street-dwelling drug addicts to high-functioning workaholics, the continuum of addiction cuts a wide and painful swath through our culture. Blending first-person accounts, riveting case studies, cutting-edge research and passionate argument, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction takes a panoramic yet highly intimate look at this widespread and perplexing human ailment. Countering prevailing notions of addiction as either a genetic disease or an individual moral failure, Dr. Gabor Maté presents an eloquent case that addiction—all addiction—is in fact a case of human development gone askew.

We speak with Dr. Gabor Maté in an interview from our most-listened-to PFR segments archive. This interview was originally broadcast on August 20, 2009.

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