Humans and their problems: A short Story Dr. Gabor Mate’s In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction 2008 was published by Knopf Canada. He has worked for twelve years in the Eastside of Vancouver with patients suffering from addiction, mental illnesses, and HIV. He is also a renowned speaker and a bestselling author. He has received the Hubert Evans Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2012 Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award for his work (Mate, 2017).
In Hungry Ghosts, Mate's focus is on removing the stigmatization attached to drugs, addiction and the addicts. Throughout this book, he talks about how societies and bad parenting have a significant role in addiction. He provides various scientific evidence, data, research, facts, experiments and insight of other physicians who have worked in addition to support for what he has written in the book. This book gives an insight to the stories of Mate's drug addicted patients, the psychology of addiction, human emotions of pain and suffering, impact of drug addiction on health and brain, and how our societies are also responsible directly and indirectly for the problem of addiction. Topics like attunement, proximate separation, love hormones, emotional drain, brain lock, freedom of mind and mental hygiene …show more content…
Gabor Mate. He is a creative and a descriptive writer. He has clearly established how impacts of bad society and bad environment of birth can lead can people to addiction, and mate is very successful in removing the stigmatization attached to drugs in the book. This book surely needs to be read by all, human beings on this planet and also those who intend to work in the areas of addiction or towards social justice. This book can surely help many people to change their mindsets and others’ mindsets and make this planet a better and a peaceful place to
In Hungry Ghosts, Mate's focus is on removing the stigmatization attached to drugs, addiction and the addicts. Throughout this book, he talks about how societies and bad parenting have a significant role in addiction. He provides various scientific evidence, data, research, facts, experiments and insight of other physicians who have worked in addition to support for what he has written in the book. This book gives an insight to the stories of Mate's drug addicted patients, the psychology of addiction, human emotions of pain and suffering, impact of drug addiction on health and brain, and how our societies are also responsible directly and indirectly for the problem of addiction. Topics like attunement, proximate separation, love hormones, emotional drain, brain lock, freedom of mind and mental hygiene …show more content…
Gabor Mate. He is a creative and a descriptive writer. He has clearly established how impacts of bad society and bad environment of birth can lead can people to addiction, and mate is very successful in removing the stigmatization attached to drugs in the book. This book surely needs to be read by all, human beings on this planet and also those who intend to work in the areas of addiction or towards social justice. This book can surely help many people to change their mindsets and others’ mindsets and make this planet a better and a peaceful place to