A groundbreaking work on the root causes of addiction - and how to heal it - from the legendary Dr Gabor Mate
Dr Gabor Mate is a retired physician and bestselling author of five books published across six continents. He is an internationally renowned speaker. His most recent book, The Myth of Normal, has been translated into more than 40 languages and is a New York Times, Sunday Times and international bestseller.
Gabor Maté’s connections—between the intensely personal and the
global, the spiritual and the medical, the psychological and the
political—are bold, wise and deeply moral. He is a healer to be
cherished and this exciting book arrives at just the right time
*Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine*
Gabor Maté is one of the most important, wise and compassionate
voices in the world on addiction. Everyone should read this
profound book
*Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days
of the War on Drugs*
I recommend this wonderful book for anyone struggling with the
heartache of addiction personally or professionally. Gabor Maté
makes the thought-provoking and powerful arguments that human
connections heal; and that the poverty of relationships in the
modern world contribute to our vulnerability to unhealthy
addictions of all manner. His uniquely humane perspective—all too
absent from much of the ‘modern’ approach to addictions—should be a
part of the training of all therapists, social workers, and
physicians
*Bruce Perry, MD, PhD, Child Trauma Academy Houston, and co-author
of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog*
With unparalleled sympathy for the human condition, Gabor Maté
depicts the suffocation of the spirit by addictive urges, and holds
up a dark mirror to our society. This is a powerful narrative of
the realm of human nature where confused and conflicted emotions
underlie our pretensions to rational thought
*Dr Jaak Panksepp, author of Affective Neuroscience*
In its sheer force, originality and deep scholarship, this book
represents a landmark in the theory, treatment and prevention of
addictive disorders. No-one seriously interested in this subject
can afford not to be aware of what it says about addiction and how
we should respond to it
*Nick Heather PhD, Northumbria University, UK*
An insightful, multilayered discussion of the nature of addiction
generally, and our society’s epidemic of addictions in
particular
*Globe and Mail*
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