Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2022-11-07
Books mentioned on Gabor Mate: The Childhood Lie That’s Ruining All Of Our Lives
Gabor Mate is a multi-bestselling author and a world leading expert on trauma and how it effects us throughout our whole lives. A holocaust survivor and a first generation immigrant, Gabor’s knowledge and wisdom on the scars trauma leaves behind is deep and drawn from personal experience.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté is a profound exploration of addiction, trauma, and healing that draws on the author's extensive medical experience working with severe substance abuse in Vancouver.
Discussed“so much so that in this book The Myth of normal I actually talk about a an experience with psychedelic mushrooms at the with the therapist”
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Blessed with a Brain Tumor
Discussed“in this book The Myth of normal lying to you a young man called Bill pie wrote a book called blessed with a brain tumor in a Hot Hog”
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Scattered Minds
Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté, MD is a groundbreaking exploration of Attention Deficit Disorder, tracing its roots in childhood trauma and developmental disruption rather than purely genetic causes.
Recommended“anybody interested in the subject my daughter I think Joanne and actually this is to read my book and it is called scattered minds”
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“so much so that in this book The Myth of normal I actually talk about a an experience with psychedelic mushrooms at the with the therapist”
“well part of the toxicity of the culture that I talk about in this book is that it actually rewards that kind of emptiness”
“so in your class like like race and class in this Society of inequality are certainly traumatic potentially traumatic inputs as I pointed in this book”
“the other aspect of it was that again my view is as I pointed in this book and in previous Works who gets sick and who doesn't isn't isn't exactly accidental”
“so my first book on ADHD after I was diagnosed with it was published in 1999 Now so that was 23 years ago now”
“because um I called in this book uh there's a great Hungarian Canadian stress researcher called Janus celi a c-l-y-e”
“you describe it as a calling yeah the myth of normal yeah”
“as we say in this book there are congenial Liars but there are no congenital Liars”
“um you might find that you don't need the medication uh so much anymore or not at all”