The Enchanted Loom reviews Gabor Mate's book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

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Thread 1:

No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side.

(pg. 2)

Thread 2:

Adults envy the openhearted, open- minded explorations of children; we pine for our own lost capacity for wide-eyed wonder.

(pg. 39)

Thread 3:

Emotional isolation, powerlessness and stress are the conditions that promote addiction.

(pg. 145)

Thread 4:

Addiction to opiates arises in a brain system that governs the most powerful emotional dynamic in human existence: the attachment instinct. Love.(pg. 162)

Thread 5:

One of the most important duties of the cortex is to inhibit inappropriate responses.

(pg. 176)

Thread 6:

Emotional nurturance is an absolute requirement for healthy brain development.

(pg. 193)

Thread 7:

An impoverished childhood environment can decrease 1000-fold the number of connections per brain cell.

(pg. 195)

Thread 8:

Fathers are often the best protection from stress for the family, or the greatest source of it.

(pg. 216)

Thread 9:

No one is born with the capacity for emotional self-regulation. It only develops when the conditions are right.

(pg. 236)

Thread 10:

Whatever unfinished emotional business we don’t deal with in our own lives, we pass on to our children. Children swim in their parents’ unconscious.(pg. 116)

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