In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction - Softcover

"From the Hardcover edition."

Praise for "Hold on to Your Kids"

"Mate has expressed [Neufeld's] ideas in precise and hard-hitting prose that makes complex ideas accessible without dumbing them down. The result is a book that grabs hard."
--"Edmonton Journal"

Praise for "When the Body Says No"
"When Mate witnesses and testifies to human suffering, including his own, he is compassionate and compelling."
--"The Globe and Mail"

"Written with clarity and compassion. . . . The book's characteristics seem to describe Mate himself: armed with knowledge and straight from the heart."
--"Georgia Straight"

"[An] enthralling exploration. . . . Mate probes deeply into the life histories and psyches of [his] many patients. . . . What emerges is nothing short of a revelation."
--"Edmonton Journal"
"From the Hardcover edition."

"A harrowingly honest, compassionate, sometimes angry look at addiction and the people whose lives have been disordered by it."
--Ottawa Citizen

In this timely and profoundly original book, writer and physician Gabor Mate looks at the epidemic of various addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and outlines what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold. Starting with a dramatically close view of Mate's drug addicted patients, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts weaves in stories of real people while providing a bold synthesis of clinical experience, insight and cutting-edge scientific findings. A haunting, compassionate and deeply personal examination of the nature of addiction.