As 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. I read Hungry Ghosts because on the surface it appeared to track the information presented in the 2014 edited volume entitled Addictions from an Attachment Perspective—Do Broken […]
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March 17, 2016
Light the Funeral Pyre for Mourning: Hijacking Bowlbian Attachment Theory
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February 3, 2016
Quick Look: “Why This Doctor Believes Addictions Start In Childhood”
Why This Doctor Believes Addictions Start In Childhood. Huffpost Science (01/26/2016) by Carolyn Gregoire The above article by Carolyn Gregoire—Senior Health & Science Writer at the Huffington Post—caught my eye. Gregoire’s article profiles the work of Canadian physician Gabor Maté. According to Gregoire, Maté, writing in his 2010 book entitled In the Realm of Hungry […]
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January 26, 2016
Bulleting “The Organized Mind”—I Must Have Been Dreaming
For the last several posts I’ve been pulling bullet points from Daniel Levitin’s 2014 book entitled The Organized Mind—Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. I thought my last post Nuts & Bolts would be my final installment. But an astute reader asked me why I did not pull a bullet point centered on […]
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September 15, 2015
“Addictions from an Attachment Perspective”—A Cheat Sheet
I hope everyone had a great long weekend. A reader emailed me and asked if I could create a “cheat sheet” for my multi-part review of the 2014 edited volume entitled Addictions from an Attachment Perspective—Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours? That sounds like a good idea, and, as a result, […]
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Reaction to Gabor Maté’s “In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts”
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. As a result, I repeat information here that also appears in my earlier post. I left the repeated information here so that […]
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