GABOR MATÉ - WHY YOU ARE ADDICTED
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Brian Rose
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2017
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Gabor Maté is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician who specialises in neurology, psychiatry, and psychology, as well as the study and treatment of addiction. In Dr. Maté's approach to addiction focuses on the trauma his patients have suffered and looks to address this in their recovery,with special regards to indigenous populations around the world. His book In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, close encounters with addiction, Dr. Maté discusses the types of trauma suffered by addicts and how this affects their decision making in later life. He is also widely recognised for his perspective on attention deficit disorder and his firmly held belief in the connection between mind and body health. He has authored four books exploring topics including attention deficit disorder, stress, developmental psychology and addiction.
Chapters:
00:00 Trailer.
02:43 Brian’s thoughts on the episode.
05:51 Brian’s introduction.
06:27 What Gabor learned about addiction from 12 years in a downtown Vancouver clinic.
14:20 Can addiction be cured?
19:08 Gabor asks Brian if he has any type of an addiction.
33:17 The kind of society behind the war on addicts in the Western World.
41:40 Society’s reaction to Gabor’s views on the causes of trauma and addiction.
47:53 Will there not always be childhood trauma or something in peoples’ lives, to explain addiction?
52:08 Is addiction a modern phenomenon?
56:38 Post traumatic syndrome disorder (PTSD) stems from trauma in childhood.
59:35 Bold statement from Gabor that childhood trauma manifests itself in chronic diseases.
1:07:04 Explanation of Brian’s Ayahuasca experience.
1:11:20 Why Gabor experimented in plant medicine, what he learned and its use in helping people.
1:18:14 Research renaissance into psychedelics science and their usage.
1:20:21 Gabor talks about his own childhood trauma.
1:25:45 Optimism for future of healing looking at people’s body and life experience as a whole.
1:27:36 The rational solution for combatting drug use and providing better addiction treatment.
1:33:58 What parents can do to give their child the inner strength to avoid trauma.
1:40:29 Success secrets.
1:41:15 Gabor’s plans for the future.
1:44:40 Phone call to the 20 year old Gabor.
1:46:35 Best advice ever received.
1:48:56 Advice to the 20 year old listening who wants to make the changes Gabor has talked about.
1:50:35 Brian’s summing up.
Notes:
Dr Gabor Maté website
Dr Gabor Maté on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/drgabormate/
Dr Gabor Maté TEDx talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jRLVD43u4A
Dr Gabor Maté on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor_Mat%C3%A9_(physician)
Books:
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Realm-Hungry-Ghosts-Gabor-Mate/dp/0676977413
When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection
https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Body-Says-Stress-Disease-Connection/dp/0470923350
Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Scattered-Attention-Deficit-Disorder-Originates-What-about/0452279631
Hold On to your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hold-Your-Kids-Parents-Matter/dp/0375760288
Topics discussed:
The Culture High (film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture_High
13th (film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_(film)
Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inglorious-Empire-What-British-India/dp/1849048088
Congo Free State
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I was born a Jewish infant in Budapest Hungary in January 1944. Two months later the German |
| 0:09.7 | army occupied the Wehrmacht occupies Budapest, departs half a million people to their |
| 0:16.8 | deaths in Auschwitz. My maternal grandparents being amongst them. That experience sets your brain in a certain way because it is all about trauma. |
| 0:27.0 | So eviction is manifested in any behavior that a person craves, finds temporary pleasure or relief in, but then experiences |
| 0:37.5 | negative consequences in a long term and doesn't give up. So I'm going to ask you now by that definition Brian have you ever been an addictive behavior in your life |
| 0:47.4 | Yes many in my opinion. I was probably a functional alcoholic I drank day. It gave me temporary relief from |
| 0:56.6 | from the pain I was feeling usually related to interacting with my fellow humans. |
| 1:03.4 | As a spiritual teacher said, |
| 1:10.0 | addiction is all beginning pain and end in pain. |
| 1:13.0 | So why do people engage in addiction? |
| 1:16.0 | Because they have deep emotional problems. |
| 1:18.0 | They don't have the means to resolve on their own. |
| 1:20.0 | Most chronic illnesses also originate in trauma including autoimmune |
| 1:26.8 | disease and cancer and degenerative nervous system disorders and so on because |
| 1:31.9 | of the unshakable unity of mind and body. |
| 1:35.0 | Echartoli was a spiritual teacher. He said that the greatest achievement of human kind is not |
| 1:44.4 | it's architecture or art or scientific glories but our ability to see our own insanity. |
| 1:55.0 | That's where the healing is. By the way, healing comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for wholeness. |
| 1:58.0 | So I have a totally optimistic message, really. |
| 2:01.0 | I think healing is entirely possible. |
| 2:03.0 | So if we're going to heal, if we're going to become whole, let's look at everything. Oh, I'm going to Oh, This week on the show we have Dr. Gabor Mate who is a specialist on the treatment of addiction. |
| 2:51.0 | He spent 12 years in downtown Vancouver dealing with the most hardcore |
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