In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By: Gabor Maté
4.49
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Passion creates, addiction consumes."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
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1. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
By: Judith Lewis Herman
4.39
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In th… read more
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"Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"The desire for total control over another person is the common denominator of all forms of tyranny."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
2. Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
By: Maia Szalavitz
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recoveri… read more
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"Our brains are embodied—much of the problem with the debate over addiction and psychiatry more generally is a refusal to accept this and our ongoing need to see “physical,"-Maia Szalavitz, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
"I felt utterly stripped of safety and love. And so, what tormented me most as I shook through August of 1988 wasn’t the nausea and chills but the recurring fear that I’d never have lasting comfort or…"-Maia Szalavitz, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
"But since President Obama allowed Colorado and Washington to legalize recreational use and sales of marijuana following initiatives in 2012, the United Stets itself is probably now violating internat…"-Maia Szalavitz, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
3. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
By: Johann Hari
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
New York TimesBestseller It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United St… read more
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4. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
By: Gabor Maté , Gordon Neufeld
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
International authority on child development Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., joins forces with bestselling a… read more
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5. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
By: Irvin D. Yalom , Nicola Ferguson
3.66
Format: 162 pages,
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6. On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
By: Carl R. Rogers , Peter D. Kramer
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy w… read more
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7. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
By: Lindsay C. Gibson
4.39
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering… read more
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"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met …"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a re…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"How many people get to be awake and aware for the emergence of the person they were always meant to be? How many people get to have two lifetimes in one? So tell me, is it worth the pain to get to li…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"No child can be good enough to evoke love from a highly self-involved parent. Nevertheless, these children come to believe that the price of making a connection is to put other people first and treat…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
8. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
By: Peter A. Levine , None
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma... Waking the Tigeroffers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It… read more
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9. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By: Gabor Maté
4.49
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more
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"Passion creates, addiction consumes."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
10. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By: None
4.27
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold n… read more
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11. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
By: Bruce D. Perry , Maia Szalavitz
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child'… read more
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12. The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
By: Marc Lewis
3.45
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned … read more
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13. Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
By: Gregory S. Works
4.26
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Don’t let family history set the course for your future. Triumph was strategically designed to help… read more
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"Choose joy."-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
"Be okay with having health-essential boundaries."-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
"God has been there with us every step of the way."-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
"Find people who are fighting the same illness that you are."-Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
14. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
By: Anna Lembke
3.91
Format: 304 pages, ebook
This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delic… read more
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"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
15. AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
By: Ronald M. Razmi
4.28
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the healthcare industry AI … read more
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"It’s true that AI can mimic the human brain, but it can also outperform us mere humans by discovering complex patterns that no human being could ever process and identify."-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
"In short, physicians are getting more and more data, which requires more sophisticated interpretation and which takes more time. AI is the solution, enhancing every stage of patient care from researc…"-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
"Pilots used to fly planes manually, but now they operate a dashboard with the help of computers. This has made flying safer and improved the industry. Healthcare can benefit from the same type of app…"-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
"It’s estimated that AI could free up to 25% of clinician time across different specialties. This increased amount of time could mean less hurried encounters and more humane interactions, including mo…"-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
16. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By: Richard C. Schwartz
4.15
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more
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"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
17. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
By: Stephanie Foo
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more
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18. Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
By: Maia Szalavitz
4.54
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times b… read more
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19. Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
By: Judith Grisel
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessibl… read more
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"As always with addictive drugs, tolerance spoils the fun..."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"...there will never be enough drug, because the brain's capacity to learn and adapt is basically infinite."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"I'd sought wellness and became sick; fun, but lived in a constant state of anxious dread; freedom, and was enslaved."-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
"A victim of virtually any disease usually elicits pity, addicts mostly evoke revulsion. What is it about the irrational behavior of an addict that makes everyone want to turn away?"-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
20. Somawise: Get Out of Your Head, Get Into Your Body
By: Luke Sniewski
4.34
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
How do I create authentic change?How can I have more peaceful relationships?How do I achieve holist… read more
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21. Addiction, Attachment, Trauma and Recovery: The Power of Connection (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
By: Oliver J. Morgan
4.35
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
2020 Award Winner for the in the category of Addiction & Recovery. A new model of addiction that in… read more
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