In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté | Book Review | Summary

In today’s book review I try to summarize my main takeaways from Gabor Mates wonderful book In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. Dr. Gabor Mates has a compassionate view on how we should treat addiction and in this book you will encounter portraits of the life’s of his patients as well as a peak at mates own addictive tendencies.

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Video content:

00:00 - 00:30 Introduction
00:30 - 00:50 About the book
00:50 - 1:05 Addiction: more than genes...
1:05 - 1:20 Compassion
1:20 - 1:29 Quote: Pass on trauma to the next generation
1:29 - 1:59 Proximal separation
1:59 - 2:15 Think before you judge.
2:15 - 2:59 Support for parents declining.
2:59 - 3:45 TAKEAWAY
3:45 - 3:54 Book Verdict
3:54 - 4:54 Book Recommendations / Further Reading
4:54 - 06:07 Upcoming books!


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