In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction Greg Sheridan and Catherine Parr

and Catherine Parr

When After Virtue first appeared in 1981

A self-help book based in science

Tracing the development of different civilizations through the ages

And the boy she gave her heart to broke it completely

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction Greg Sheridan and Catherine ParrBased on Gabor Mats two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouvers skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Mat presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak willed few, but as a continuum that runs throughout (and perhaps underpins) our society; not a medical