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Book Disciplining the Jock  First Time Gay Student Teacher Discipline and Humiliation Erotica

Download or read book Disciplining the Jock First Time Gay Student Teacher Discipline and Humiliation Erotica written by S M Partlowe and published by The Red Spot Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader Advisory: This story is for mature audiences only and features intensely erotic situations, taboo teacher/student relations, bdsm play, discipline, spanking, humiliation, submissiveness and dominance. All characters are 18 or older. Peter Stanton has always found ways of using his good looks and athletic talents to get ahead, and when he arrives in college it doesn't look like that's going to have to change. But his easy ride runs out when his professor Alex Whitner notices him flirting with a female classmate only to copy her course work. The handsome professor decides it's time to teach Peter a little personal responsibility and maybe show the testosterone charged young man just what someone who actually knows how to handle him looks like. Excerpt: "You know, Professor," I begin, "I understand why you have me cleaning the classroom. I'm really learning a lesson. But as for talking to Jessie, I really don't understand why that's so necessary. How do you know I don't like her?" I shrug my shoulders. "That's the sort of thing I get to decide for myself, isn't it? I'm not just a child you get to push around like that." I wince slightly as I hear the last words come out of my mouth. That may have been taking it too far, but it was where the conversation was headed anyways. "That's a very interesting perspective, Peter," he says in a neutral voice. "But surely if you cared about her you wouldn't be manipulating her into giving you her work when she clearly didn't want to." I roll my eyes in dismissal. "Professor," I say, "is it really that simple? Sometimes you need something from someone, that's all. It doesn't hurt her any if she helps me out, just like it doesn't hurt you any if you forget this whole thing ever happened." I put a little emphasis on the "if". I'm not obvious, I think, but I do it just enough that he'll interpret the sentence the way I mean it. He sits back and considers me for a long moment, taking me in - all of me. I find myself suddenly a little bit self-conscious but try to shake the momentary weakness out of my head. "What are you doing, Peter?" he asks. "Why do you think it's appropriate to act this way?" I try to meet his gaze, but I'm finding it increasingly difficult. "Like what, Professor?" "You – always trying to push people around to get what you want. Do you think I'm some kid who'll go weak-kneed if you flex your muscles?" "What are you talking about, Professor?" I ask as innocently as I can, mentally backpedaling as my heart begins to hammer. He seems angry. It's suddenly obvious to both of us that I don't have the courage to go through with my implied threat. "What am I talking about?" He asks incredulously. "No, enough. I've wasted too much time trying to teach you like an adult and give you the benefit of the doubt. I can see now that I was wrong from the beginning." He stands up, angry and strong and an inch or two taller than me as he looks down at me. He grabs me by my arm and pulls me to face him. "Look at yourself," he says. "Do you think this is an acceptable way to behave? How far in life do you think this sort of stunt will take you?" I look up at him, unable to speak. There isn't anything to say. But there's something about the way he's looking at me, almost like he knows he's supposed to be angry but he's responding in a different way instead – almost like he's noticing me the way I noticed him along the pathway this morning. I draw in a faltering breath. Notice: This title includes themes and passages that have been adapted from Jessica Whitethread's Caught By My Professor with full consent of the original author.

Book Gay Classroom Discipline  First Time Gay Student Teacher Discipline and Humiliation Erotica

Download or read book Gay Classroom Discipline First Time Gay Student Teacher Discipline and Humiliation Erotica written by S M Partlowe and published by The Red Spot Press. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader Advisory: These stories are for mature audiences only and feature intensely erotic situations, taboo teacher/student relations, bdsm play, discipline, spanking, humiliation, anal sex, submissiveness and dominance. All characters are 18 or older. Gay Classroom Discipline contains three hot stories of power play, first time gay experiences, and school discipline: Disciplining the Jock Peter Stanton has always found ways of using his good looks and athletic talents to get ahead, and when he arrives in college it doesn't look like that's going to have to change. But his easy ride runs out when his professor Alex Whitner notices him flirting with a female classmate only to copy her course work. The handsome professor decides it's time to teach Peter a little personal responsibility and maybe show the testosterone charged young man just what someone who actually knows how to handle him looks like. Turning the Tables on the Teacher If he's being honest, Sam Rogers sometimes enjoys jerking around the college students in his classes … but when he goes too far with his bad marks, he finds out there's someone in his class who won't get pushed too far. Jackson, an undergraduate after completing his military service, has discovered a dirty little secret that Sam will do anything to keep from getting out into the open. He's willing to keep this secret between them, but he wants to be sure that Sam still gets the punishment he so very much deserves. Disciplined in the Dean's Office Jackson doesn't know why he started the rumor about Professor Vicarro, his young and handsome politics professor. Maybe it was a plea for attention or maybe it was just a way of making a long-hidden fantasy become slightly real. But whatever the reason, the rumors have made their way to the Dean of Student Affairs Mr. Iverson himself, and when Jackson is called down to the office on a Friday afternoon, he finds out the dean's heard a lot more. Once past the initial mortification, he can admit he's probably earned the spanking he'll get, but did Mr. Iverson really have to tell Professor Vicarro about the whole thing, too? Surely he'll find his own ways to settle accounts, and all Jackson can do is wait and see which method will leave him more sore. Excerpt: He sits back and considers me for a long moment, taking me in - all of me. I find myself suddenly a little bit self-conscious but try to shake the momentary weakness out of my head. "What are you doing, Peter?" he asks. "Why do you think it's appropriate to act this way?" I try to meet his gaze, but I'm finding it increasingly difficult. "Like what, Professor?" "You – always trying to push people around to get what you want. Do you think I'm some kid who'll go weak-kneed if you flex your muscles?" "What are you talking about, Professor?" I ask as innocently as I can, mentally backpedaling as my heart begins to hammer. He seems angry. It's suddenly obvious to both of us that I don't have the courage to go through with my implied threat. "What am I talking about?" He asks incredulously. "No, enough. I've wasted too much time trying to teach you like an adult and give you the benefit of the doubt. I can see now that I was wrong from the beginning." He stands up, angry and strong and an inch or two taller than me as he looks down at me. He grabs me by my arm and pulls me to face him. I look up at him, unable to speak. There isn't anything to say. But there's something about the way he's looking at me, almost like he knows he's supposed to be angry but he's responding in a different way instead – almost like he's noticing me the way I noticed him along the pathway this morning. I draw in a faltering breath. Notice: These titles include themes and passages that have been adapted from several works by Jessica Whitethread with full consent of the original author.

Book Disciplined in the Dean s Office  Gay Student Teacher Discipline Erotica

Download or read book Disciplined in the Dean s Office Gay Student Teacher Discipline Erotica written by S M Partlowe and published by The Red Spot Press. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader Advisory: This story is for mature audiences only and features intensely erotic situations, taboo teacher/student relations, bdsm play, discipline, spanking, humiliation, anal sex, submissiveness and dominance. All characters are 18 or older. Jackson doesn't know why he started the rumor about Professor Vicarro, his young and handsome politics professor. Maybe it was a plea for attention or maybe it was just a way of making a long-hidden fantasy become slightly real. But whatever the reason, the rumors have made their way to the Dean of Student Affairs Mr. Iverson himself, and when Jackson is called down to the office on a Friday afternoon, he finds out the dean's heard a lot more. Once past the initial mortification, he can admit he's probably earned the spanking he'll get, but did Mr. Iverson really have to tell Professor Vicarro about the whole thing, too? Surely he'll find his own ways to settle accounts, and all Jackson can do is wait and see which method will leave him more sore. Excerpt: The ensuing silence was awful. After daring the initial glance towards Professor Viccaro my eyes had stayed locked on a spot on the floor near the leg of the desk. I could feel him considering me. "Won't you say something, Professor?" I finally blurted. "I'm trying to understand you, Jackson." "What's to understand? I shouldn't have said - I just made a mistake." "What did you want?" I struggled with the question. "I guess I just sort of liked the idea of it, to tell the truth," I said finally in a very quiet voice. "I'm just so incredibly embarrassed, professor." He blinked in surprise. Then he started to laugh. "Is that what it was?" he said. "I thought I saw something in the way you looked at me, and it made the lie all the harder to understand." He closed the door of the office and stepped into the room. "But then again, if you knew the headache ... what a stupid thing." "I'm sorry." He loosened his necktie and ran a frustrated hand through his dark hair. Even though it was wildly inappropriate given the situation, I couldn't help but find him even more alluring when angry than when he was calm and collected. He seemed simultaneously capable of anything and yet in control. I got the sudden and very strange insight that he had probably been the type to get into a lot of trouble when he was younger. He turned back to look at me and caught me staring. His eyes locked to mine, freezing me in place, and I watched a faintly appraising look come into his face. "Well what are we going to do about this?" he asked. The question sounded rhetorical, so I watched him without answering. "Tell me," he said, walking over to lean against the desk only a couple feet from me. "What is it exactly you told people I did?" Notice: This title includes themes and passages that have been adapted from Jessica Whitethread’s Naughty Rumors with full consent of the original author.

Book Turning the Tables on the Teacher  Gay Discipline Student Teacher Erotica

Download or read book Turning the Tables on the Teacher Gay Discipline Student Teacher Erotica written by S M Partlowe and published by The Red Spot Press. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader Advisory: This story is for mature audiences only and features intensely erotic situations, taboo teacher/student relations, bdsm play, discipline, spanking, humiliation, submissiveness and dominance. All characters are 18 or older. If he's being honest, Sam Rogers sometimes enjoys jerking around the college students in his classes … but when he goes too far with his bad marks, he finds out there's someone in his class who won't get pushed too far. Jackson, an undergraduate after completing his military service, has discovered a dirty little secret that Sam will do anything to keep from getting out into the open. He's willing to keep this secret between them, but he wants to be sure that Sam still gets the punishment he so very much deserves. Excerpt: "I'm going to punish you, Sam," he explained, his hand opening first the belt and then my fly to push my pants down to my knees and allow them to fall the rest of the way to the floor. I clutched a hand over my crotch, now covered only by a pair of thin white briefs. "You don't seem to be grasping that reality," he went on. "It's either me or the Chair of your Department. Which one do you want it to be?" I stared at him, caught in an impossible place. I had no one to blame but myself. Why had I done it? And now I was completely at his mercy. "Well?" "You," I whispered. "Me? You want me to punish you?" I grimaced, trying to think of some other option. "Sam? What's it going to be?" "... Yes." The smile returned to his face. "That's a good boy. I thought you'd see it my way. It just took a little explaining. Now bend down and pick up your pants and hand them to me. I'd hate to let them wriankle down there." The deep crimson flush of humiliation was rising in my face as I stared at him, paralyzed. "Sam," he repeated, pointing at my fallen garment. I slid my back down the wall until I felt the rumpled fabric in my hand. I stepped out of it and rose with it draped from my limp fingers. Jackson held out his hand for it and I gave it to him. He folded it with care, placed it on the desk behind him, and then turned back to me. He eyed me up and down, evaluating the man standing before him. I was supposed to be the authority figure, but how fast the tables had turned. I felt the humiliating flush in my cheeks burning hotter than ever as I felt his eyes roving over my body. Other, more conflicted and confusing emotions were playing about inside me as well as I noticed the slight quickening of his breath and the desire in his eyes. Notice: This title includes themes and passages that have been adapted from Jessica Whitethread's Disciplining the Teacher with full consent of the original author.

Book Femdom Class for the Jock  Student Teacher Femdom Discipline and Humiliation Erotica

Download or read book Femdom Class for the Jock Student Teacher Femdom Discipline and Humiliation Erotica written by Nina Nauheim and published by The Red Spot Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader Advisory: This story is for mature audiences only and features intensely erotic situations, dominant women and submissive men, taboo teacher/student relations, bdsm play, discipline, spanking, and humiliation. All characters are 18 or older. Peter Leyton has always found ways of using his good looks and athletic talents to get ahead, and when he arrives in college it doesn't look like that's going to have to change. But his easy ride runs out when his professor Sarah Kelly notices him flirting with a female classmate only to copy her course work. The domineering and ever-so-sexy professor decides it's time to teach Peter a little personal responsibility and maybe show the testosterone charged young man just what a woman who actually knows how to handle him looks like. Excerpt: "You know, Professor," I begin, "I understand why you have me cleaning the classroom. I'm really learning a lesson. But as for talking to Jessie, I really don't understand why that's so necessary. How do you know I don't like her?" I shrug my shoulders. "That's the sort of thing I get to decide for myself, isn't it? I'm not just a child you get to push around like that." I wince slightly as I hear the last words come out of my mouth. That may have been taking it too far, but it was where the conversation was headed anyways. "That's a very interesting perspective, Peter," she says in a neutral voice. "But surely if you cared about her you wouldn't be manipulating her into giving you her work when she clearly didn't want to." I roll my eyes in dismissal. "Professor," I say, "is it really that simple? Sometimes you need something from someone, that's all. It doesn't hurt her any if she helps me out, just like it doesn't hurt you any if you forget this whole thing ever happened." I put a little emphasis on the "if". I'm not obvious, I think, but I do it just enough that he'll interpret the sentence the way I mean it. She sits back and considers me for a long moment, taking me in - all of me. I find myself suddenly a little bit self-conscious but try to shake the momentary weakness out of my head. "What are you doing, Peter?" she asks. "Why do you think it's appropriate to act this way?" I try to meet her gaze, but I'm finding it increasingly difficult. "Like what, Professor?" "You – always trying to push people around to get what you want. Do you think I'm some kid who'll go weak-kneed if you flex your muscles?" "What are you talking about, Professor?" I ask as innocently as I can, mentally backpedaling as my heart begins to hammer. She seems angry. It's suddenly obvious to both of us that I don't have the courage to go through with my implied threat. "What am I talking about?" She asks incredulously. "No, enough. I've wasted too much time trying to teach you like an adult and give you the benefit of the doubt. I can see now that I was wrong from the beginning." She stands up, angry and strong and almost as tall as I am but still managing to look down at me somehow. She grabs me by my arm and pulls me to face her. "Look at yourself," she says. "Do you think this is an acceptable way to behave? How far in life do you think this sort of stunt will take you?" I look at her, unable to speak. There isn't anything to say. But there's something about the way she's looking at me, almost like she knows she's supposed to be angry but she's responding in a different way instead – almost like she's noticing me the way I noticed her along the pathway this morning now that we're so close. I draw in a faltering breath. Notice: This title includes themes and passages that have been adapted from Jessica Whitethread's Caught By My Professor with full consent of the original author.

Book Disciplining the Teacher  Spanking  Humiliation  Teacher Student  Dominance

Download or read book Disciplining the Teacher Spanking Humiliation Teacher Student Dominance written by Jessica Whitethread and published by The Red Spot Press. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader Advisory: This story is for mature audiences only and features intensely erotic situations, teacher/student relations, discipline, spanking, humiliation, submissiveness and dominance. All characters are 18 or older. If she's being honest, Sandra Rogers sometimes enjoys jerking around the male college students in her classes … but when she goes too far with her bad marks, she finds out there's someone in her class who won't get pushed too far. Jackson, an undergraduate after completing his military service, has discovered a dirty little secret that Sandra will do anything to keep from getting out into the open. He's willing to keep this secret between them, but he wants to be sure that still gets the punishment she so very much deserves. Excerpt:"I'm going to punish you, Sandra," he explained, his hand undoing the zipper and allowing the skirt to open and fall to the floor. I clutched a hand over my panties. "You don't seem to be grasping that reality. It's either me or the Chair of your Department. Which one do you want it to be?" I stared at him, caught in an impossible place. I had no one to blame but myself. Why had I done it? And now I was completely at his mercy. "Well?" "You," I whispered. "Me? You want me to punish you?" I grimaced, trying to think of some other option. "Sandra? What's it going to be?" "... Yes." The smile returned to his face. "That's a good girl. I thought you'd see it my way. It just took a little explaining. Now bend down and pick up your skirt and hand it to me. I'd hate to let it wrinkle down there." The deep crimson blush of humiliation was rising in my face as I stared at him, paralyzed. "Sandra," he repeated, pointing at my fallen garment. I slid my back down the wall until I felt the rumpled fabric in my hand. I stepped out of it and rose with it draped from my limp fingers. Jackson held out his hand for it and I gave it to him. He folded it with care, placed it on the desk behind him, and then turned back to me. He eyed me up and down, evaluating the woman standing before him. I was supposed to be the authority figure, but how fast the tables had turned. I felt the blush in my cheeks burning hotter than ever as I felt his eyes roving my trembling body. Other, more conflicted and confusing emotions were playing about inside me as well as I noticed the slight quickening of his breath and the desire in his eyes.

Book Office Toy   On Display   First Time Gay BDSM Humiliation Power Play  Series Book Four

Download or read book Office Toy On Display First Time Gay BDSM Humiliation Power Play Series Book Four written by S M Partlowe and published by The Red Spot Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You thought you owned your body," he breathed into Josh's ear. "And I so very much love teaching you how wrong you are." No one has ever made Josh feel the way Daniel does, but no one has ever asked so much of Josh in return. When can he trust this man knows exactly how much he can take, and when is Josh right to be afraid? Reader Advisory: This story is part of a series for mature audiences only and which features intensely erotic situations, discipline, exhibition, humiliation, rough first time anal sex, dominance and submissiveness. All characters are 18 or older.

Book Crime  Shame and Reintegration

Download or read book Crime Shame and Reintegration written by John Braithwaite and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-03-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime, Shame and Reintegration is a contribution to general criminological theory. Its approach is as relevant to professional burglary as to episodic delinquency or white collar crime. Braithwaite argues that some societies have higher crime rates than others because of their different processes of shaming wrongdoing. Shaming can be counterproductive, making crime problems worse. But when shaming is done within a cultural context of respect for the offender, it can be an extraordinarily powerful, efficient and just form of social control. Braithwaite identifies the social conditions for such successful shaming. If his theory is right, radically different criminal justice policies are needed - a shift away from punitive social control toward greater emphasis on moralizing social control. This book will be of interest not only to criminologists and sociologists, but to those in law, public administration and politics who are concerned with social policy and social issues.

Book The Character of Curriculum Studies

Download or read book The Character of Curriculum Studies written by W. Pinar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembles essays addressing the recurring question of the 'subject,' understood both as human person and school subject, thereby elaborating the subjective and disciplinary character of curriculum studies.

Book Humiliation  Degradation  Dehumanization

Download or read book Humiliation Degradation Dehumanization written by Paulus Kaufmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Degradation, dehumanization, instrumentalization, humiliation, and nonrecognition – these concepts point to ways in which we understand human beings to be violated in their dignity. Violations of human dignity are brought about by concrete practices and conditions; some commonly acknowledged, such as torture and rape, and others more contested, such as poverty and exclusion. This volume collates reflections on such concepts and a range of practices, deepening our understanding of human dignity and its violation, bringing to the surface interrelationships and commonalities, and pointing to the values that are thereby shown to be in danger. In presenting a streamlined discussion from a negative perspective, complemented by conclusions for a positive account of human dignity, the book is at once a contribution to the body of literature on what dignity is and how it should be protected as well as constituting an alternative, fresh and focused perspective relevant to this significant recurring debate. As the concept of human dignity itself crosses disciplinary boundaries, this is mirrored in the unique range of perspectives brought by the book’s European and American contributors – in philosophy and ethics, law, human rights, literature, cultural studies and interdisciplinary research. This volume will be of interest to social and moral philosophers, legal and human rights theorists, practitioners and students.

Book Imperial Leather

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  • Author : Anne Mcclintock
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-01
  • ISBN : 1135209103
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book Imperial Leather written by Anne Mcclintock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power.

Book My Thinning Years

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  • Author : Jon Derek Croteau
  • Publisher : Hazelden Publishing
  • Release : 2014-08-30
  • ISBN : 161649509X
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book My Thinning Years written by Jon Derek Croteau and published by Hazelden Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells the story of growing up denying his homosexuality in order to earn the love of his abusive father and how he eventually faced his sexual identity and began sorting through years of repressed anger.

Book As Schoolboys from Their Books

Download or read book As Schoolboys from Their Books written by Mario Kochany and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Here to Eternity

Download or read book From Here to Eternity written by James Jones and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic of World War II, this novel reflects the exciting, tumultuous and brutal world inhabited by soldiers and the women they love. It portrays the consuming conflicts of a generation set afire by the passions and savagery of war.

Book Invisible Boys

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  • Author : Holden Sheppard
  • Publisher : Fremantle Press
  • Release : 2019-10-01
  • ISBN : 1925815579
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Invisible Boys written by Holden Sheppard and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotional tale of identity, sexuality and suicide derived from personal experience about three teenage boys who struggle to come to terms with their homosexuality in a small Western Australian town. On the surface, nerd Zeke, punk Charlie and footy wannabe Hammer look like they have nothing in common. But scratch that surface and you'd find three boys in the throes of coming to terms with their homosexuality in a town where it is invisible. Invisible Boys is a raw, confronting YA novel that explores the complexities and trauma of rural gay identity with painful honesty, devastating consequences and, ultimately, hope.

Book That s the Joint

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  • Author : Murray Forman
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780415969192
  • Pages : 652 pages

Download or read book That s the Joint written by Murray Forman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning 25 years of serious writing on hip-hop by noted scholars and mainstream journalists, this comprehensive anthology includes observations and critiques on groundbreaking hip-hop recordings.

Book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Download or read book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts written by Gabor Maté, MD and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thought-provoking and powerful” study that reframes everything you’ve been taught about addiction and recovery—from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Myth of Normal (Bruce Perry, author of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog). A world-renowned trauma expert combines real-life stories with cutting-edge research to offer a holistic approach to understanding addiction—its origins, its place in society, and the importance of self-compassion in recovery. Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with people with addiction on Vancouver’s skid row, this #1 international bestseller radically re-envisions a much misunderstood condition by taking a compassionate approach to substance abuse and addiction recovery. In the same vein as Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts traces the root causes of addiction to childhood trauma and examines the pervasiveness of addiction in society. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs throughout—and perhaps underpins—our society. It is not a medical “condition” distinct from the lives it affects but rather the result of a complex interplay among personal history, emotional and neurological development, brain chemistry, and the drugs and behaviors of addiction. Simplifying a wide array of brain and addiction research findings from around the globe, the book avoids glib self-help remedies, instead promoting a thorough and compassionate self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness. Dr. Maté argues persuasively against contemporary health, social, and criminal justice policies toward addiction and how they perpetuate the War on Drugs. The mix of personal stories—including the author’s candid discussion of his own “high-status” addictive tendencies—and science with positive solutions makes the book equally useful for lay readers and professionals.