内容简介

　　在本书中，加博尔·马泰博士基于几十年来帮助受毒瘾和精神疾病困扰的患者的工作经验，以及新近的心理学研究发现，以一种富有人文关怀的方式审视成瘾。他提出，成瘾不是只存在于少数意志薄弱者之中的个别现象，每个人都处于一个从轻微到严重的成瘾光谱中；成瘾不是一种疾病，而是个人历史、神经发展和脑化学与成瘾物质/行为之间复杂相互作用的结果。

　　成瘾源于内心的空虚和无聊，这本质上是一种自我调节失败、无法自我满足的状态。尤其是那些在生命最初几年有被忽视或虐待经历的人，会失去正常发展与奖赏、动机、自我控制相关的神经系统的机会，无法自我满足的空虚成了“默认状态”。于是，人们不断向外界寻求满足，求助于成瘾物质或行为，但这些外部刺激始终无法真正填补内心的空洞，并且往往是对身心有害的。于是，每次在片刻的解脱之后，又会陷入更深的痛苦。

　　成瘾的疗愈需要一个生态：疗愈并不意味着从一种疾病中康复，而是意味着成瘾者可以开始创造新的内外部资源，以支持用健康的新方式，来满足自身真实的需求。

　　本书从对吸毒者的近距离观察开始，继而作者毫不掩饰地剖析了自己对古典音乐唱片和名声地位的成瘾。将真实故事和最新的科学研究、基于科学的解决方案融合在一起，最后为我们每个人能做些什么来避免成瘾，以及我们整个社会可以做些什么来帮助成瘾者给出了充满共情的建议。

　　作者简介

　　加博尔·马泰（Gabor Maté）

　　加拿大知名医生和畅销书作家，于2018年5月获颁加拿大最高平民荣誉勋章“加拿大勋章”，曾任西蒙菲莎大学兼任教授。他长期关注成瘾、压力、幼童发展和注意缺陷等领域。其作品曾获得休伯特·埃文斯非虚构文学奖、马丁·路德·金人道主义奖，被翻译成超过30种语言。他在TED上关于成瘾的演讲《成瘾的力量与力量的成瘾》已有超过300万观看量。

　　译者简介

　　庄晓丹（清流）

　　中国心理学会注册心理师，北京师范大学心理学部临床督导，从事心理创伤、正念冥想、多元文化方面的临床执业和培训工作。

　　林钗华

　　北京师范大学心理学部临床与咨询专业硕士生导师，美国普渡大学咨询心理学博士。

Empty heart content brief introduction

In this book, Dr. Gabor Matai examines addiction in a humane way, based on decades of work with patients suffering from addiction and mental illness, as well as recent psychological research findings. He argues that addiction is not an isolated phenomenon among a few weak-willed individuals, but that everyone falls on a spectrum of addiction from mild to severe; Addiction is not a disease, but the result of a complex interplay between personal history, neural development, and brain chemistry with addictive substances/behaviors.

Addiction stems from inner emptiness and boredom, which is essentially a state of failure to self-regulate and self-satisfaction. Those who experience neglect or abuse in the first years of life, in particular, lose the opportunity to develop the nervous systems associated with reward, motivation, and self-control, and an inability to satisfy themselves becomes the "default state." As a result, people constantly seek satisfaction from the outside world, resorting to addictive substances or behaviors, but these external stimuli can never really fill the hole in the heart, and often are harmful to the body and mind. Then, each time after a moment of relief, he would fall deeper into pain.

The healing of addiction requires an ecology: healing does not mean recovery from a disease, but means that the addict can begin to create new internal and external resources to support healthy new ways to meet their real needs.

Starting with an up-close look at drug users, the author goes on to unapologetic dissection of his own addiction to classical music recordings and fame. Blending true stories with the latest scientific research and science-based solutions, it ends with empathetic advice on what each of us can do to avoid addiction, and what we as a society can do to help addicts.

About the author

Gabor Mate

A renowned Canadian physician and best-selling author, he was awarded the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour, in May 2018 and was formerly an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University. He has long focused on the areas of addiction, stress, early childhood development and attention deficits. His work has won the Hubert Evans Prize for Nonfiction and the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award, and has been translated into more than 30 languages. His TED talk on addiction, The Power of Addiction and the Power of Addiction, has been viewed more than 3 million times.

Translator's introduction

Zhuang Xiaodan (Clear Flow)

Registered psychologist of Chinese Psychological Society, clinical supervisor of Psychology Department of Beijing Normal University, engaged in clinical practice and training in trauma, mindfulness meditation, and multiculturalism.

Lin Caihua

Professor of Clinical and Counseling, Department of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Doctor of counseling Psychology, Purdue University, USA.