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Hongerige geesten: de psychologie van verslaving by Gabor Maté

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challenging dark informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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4.0

scientific and personal accounts and explanations of addictive behavior and how addiction forms, behaves, functions, and can be solved.

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Beyond being a beautiful way of understanding addiction, which is enormously misunderstood by most it seems, this has so much to offer when it comes to understanding developmental psychology. Makes my 4 years of GCSE and A-level psychology seem completely worthless given the actually just incorrect things they taught us, as proven in this book.

It proves how important re-shaping our understanding of how the brain develops really is.

I encourage anyone to read this as it offers ways of understanding that would be hugely beneficial to society and peoples lives with anecdotal stories that range from hopeful to heartbreaking. These understandings aren’t unique to the book but it gets them across very effectively.