En el reino de los espíritus hambrientos : Encuentros cercanos con la adicción

Since its original publication, this book has become a cornerstone for anyone seeking to understand trauma, addiction, and recovery. Within its pages, Maté reframes substance use disorder as a response to suffering, not a moral failing, and offers a different path toward understanding, hope, and social repair. Providing support, achieving effective social change, and understanding addiction can be challenging for those who haven't experienced it firsthand. Through case studies, cutting-edge neuropsychiatric research, and her lucid analysis, Maté explores how personal history, emotional development, brain chemistry, social conditions, and other structural factors, such as unresolved trauma, influence addiction. She advocates for humane and compassionate approaches that focus on the holistic healing of the individual and the culture, and shows how punishment, stigma, and isolation only worsen outcomes. A haunting, compassionate, and deeply personal examination of the nature of addiction.