Gabor Maté: The Roots of Healing

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Dr. Gabor Maté is an author, speaker, and physician who specializes in addiction, stress, and childhood development. His many books include In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and When the Body Says No. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Maté about his views on modern mental health evaluation—specifically the widespread diagnoses of ADHD and depression. They discuss the connection between emotional expression and immune response, as well as how the body can be an effective teacher. Finally, Dr. Maté comments on how mental health issues can often be rooted in compensating behaviors from childhood and how healing can be approached from a bio-psycho-social perspective. (68 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.
0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, guest is Gor Mate.
0:45.0	Dr. Gabor Mate is a renowned speaker and best-selling author and is highly sought
0:51.0	after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress, and childhood development.
1:00.0	Gabour Mate has written several best-selling books, including the award-winning in the realm of
1:06.2	hungry ghosts, close encounters with addiction.
1:10.7	And when the body says no, exploring the Stress Disease Connection, he's also the co-founder
1:18.0	of Compassion for Addiction, a new nonprofit that focuses on addiction.
1:24.4	In this episode of Insights at the Edge,
1:26.7	Gabor and I spoke about the immune system
1:30.2	and how it is connected to healthy emotional expression and why it matters so much that we own our
1:37.6	healthy anger and express it. We also talked about how our body can function as a teacher and how he views such diagnoses as ADHD and depression and how his views differ from the way the medical community views those conditions.
1:56.5	We also talked about understanding healing through a bio-psychosocial lens and how a great number of mental health issues can actually be
2:06.7	traced to childhood compensation. Finally we talked about what Gabor is currently focusing on as he enters his 73rd year of life.
2:18.0	Here's my conversation with the very direct and brilliant Dr. Gabor Mate.
2:30.6	Gabor I want to just begin by thanking you for making the time for this conversation.
2:36.0	I know how busy you are and I feel appreciative.
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