“Addiction is not a disease. It's an attempt to solve the problem of emotional pain.”
In this episode of the Mindspace podcast, Dr. Joe speaks with Dr. Gabor Maté, retired physician, author, and world renowned educator. Dr. Maté has more than 20 years experience in family practice and palliative care. He has worked for more than a decade at the Portland Hotel in downtown East Side Vancouver with patients who suffer from mental illness and addiction.
He is a world renowned expert in trauma, addiction, child development, psychedelics, and the relationship between stress and illness. He is the best selling author of four books like When the Body Says No and The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, for which he won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. And he is currently finishing his fifth book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture due out in April 2022. His works have been translated into more than 25 languages. And he also offers online video courses including Wholehearted's Healing Trauma and Addictions.
His work now centres around educating the public on the impact of trauma and human development and training therapists in Compassionate Inquiry. Compassionate Inquiry is a therapeutic method developed by Dr. Maté whose focus is on helping the patient to “recognize the unconscious dynamics that run their lives and how to liberate themselves from them.” He also just released The Wisdom of Trauma on June 8th, 2021, a movie about his life’s work.
0:00 Introduction
4:18 Gabor's Professional Identity
5:24 Gabor's Personal History with Trauma
8:08 The Effects of Trauma and Stress During Pregnancy and Childhood on Human Development
12:20 Children's Adaptation to Trauma
18:38 The Wisdom of Trauma
21:22 The Problem with the Disease Model of Addiction and the Definition of Addiction
27:13 The Root of Illness in Trauma
34:20 On the Healing Capacities of Psychedelics
39:49 Is Everyone Traumatized?
42:33 What Are You Optimistic About?
45:56 The Source of Evil in Trauma
48:12 Conclusion
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