Gabor Maté
Autore di In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Sull'Autore
Gabor Mate, M.D., has been a family practitioner for twenty years. He was a long-standing medical columnist for The Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail in Canada
Fonte dell'immagine: Dr. Gabor Maté, M.D.
Opere di Gabor Maté
Toxic Culture 1 copia
Quando o Corpo Diz Não 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Maté, Gabor
- Data di nascita
- 1944-01-06
- Sesso
- male
- NazionalitÃ
- Hungary (birth)
Canada - Luogo di residenza
- Budapest, Hungary
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Attività lavorative
- doctor
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
2023 (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 15
- Utenti
- 3,546
- PopolaritÃ
- #7,160
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 85
- ISBN
- 113
- Lingue
- 14
- Preferito da
- 6
I bought this book originally as it's a joint effort between Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté and I'd enjoyed a previous book of Maté's, although with a dollop of scepticism. The bit of the blurb that caught my eye was reattaching to your kids, and at the time that I bought this my (then) 13 year old was proving harder to communicate with and I was keen to recapture our bond.
The first few chapters had me nodding my head in some agreement, particularly in relation to immaturity and a tendency for some adolescents to need to fit in with their peers. So far our set of circumstances at home. But then Neufeld and Maté completely lost me. The book became full of sweeping statements and generalisations which I felt are totally unfair on the majority of our young people. It seemed totally lost on these two 'experts' that lots of kids want to fit in during their teens and that friends are an important part of your rite of passage through adolescence. In their eyes, spending time with peers means peer attachment issues and a slippery slope to bullying, aggression and goodness knows what else. There was no middle ground of teenagers figuring out who they are and coming out the other side OK - it was either devils or angels.
I do get and agree with the main point of the book, which is that it's important for children and young people to develop and keep a firm attachment with a parent/s or guardians / trusted adult, but for scientists to have written this book there seemed to be so much that was subjective and based on opinions rather than firm data.
And it went on and on and on about the same basic point, page after page in small print. Talk about repetitive and filler content.
So I'm delighted to at last to be done with this book that is a horrible read on several levels.
1.5 stars - I'm done now with both of them.… (altro)