In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

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What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

ALICE MILLER

Breaking Down the Wall of Silence

In the search for truth human beings take two steps forward and one step back. Suffering, mistakes and weariness of life thrust them back, but the thirst for truth and stubborn will drive them forward. And who knows? Perhaps they will reach the real truth at last.

ANTON CHEKHOV

The Duel

AUTHOR’S NOTE

The persons, quotes, case examples and life histories in this book are all authentic; no embellishing details have been added and no “composite” characters have been created. To protect privacy, pseudonyms are used for All my patients, except for two people who directly requested to be named. In two other cases I have provided disguised physical descriptions, again in the interests of privacy.

Permission has been received from the persons whose lives are laid bare here: they have in all cases read the material pertinent to them. Similarly, prior permission and final approval was granted by the subjects whose photographs appear in these pages.

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