![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maté’s main message (as encapsulated by Huffington Post writer Carolyn Gregoire, who I am quoting here) is as follows: “he root of addictive behaviors can be traced all the way back to childhood.” So, do these two books track each other? Well, yes and no. The main message delivered in Addictions & Attachment is as follows: There is a correlation between early insecure attachment and later addictive behavior. I read Maté’s book because on the surface it appeared that Hungry Ghosts tracks the information presented in the 2014 edited volume entitled Addictions from an Attachment Perspective-Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours? As you will recall I wrote a series of blog posts wherein I summarized Addictions & Attachment (for short). This post tends to look at the repeated information in more detail.Īs promised in my February 3rd, 2016, blog post, I just finished reading In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Encounters with Addiction (2008) by Canadian MD Gabor Maté. Hopefully the repeated information will serve as a review. I left the repeated information here so that this post could stand on its own. As a result, I repeat information here that also appears in my earlier post. Author’s Note: I completed the final draft of this post before I wrote my 03.17.16 post wherein I recognized the “elephant in the room”: the demise of mourning practices both individual and collective. ![]()
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