c/gabor-mate
Talks, interviews and lectures by physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté — on trauma, addiction, stress and disease, ADHD, attachment, and healing.
…1187, Saladin conquered the Land of Israel. Does that mean it belongs to the Kurds? I can go back another 2000 years to Alexander the Great and the Romans and the Jews and the Egyptians and the great empires of the East. I can talk about the special…
…was trying to understand the addiction to power, I looked at some of the most powerful people in history. I looked at Alexander the Great. I looked at Napoleon. I looked at Hitler. I looked at Genghis Khan. I looked at Stalin. It's very interesting when…
…experiences and traumatic dynamics. In terms of history, I once looked at some of the great mass killers in history. Take Alexander the Great. The Great, great for what? Mm-hmm. He was a mass murderer. Now, I know that he spread civilization, but basically…
…what's interesting about them is, you know, the Greeks don't like me saying this because the Greeks loved to claim Alexander the Great as their own. But actually, he wasn't mainstream Greek. He was a Macedonian. Macedonian, yes. And the Greeks, the actual…