…all. And it's totally not understood and appreciated. So trauma is a wound. The meaning of the word trauma comes from the Greek word for wound or wounding. So trauma is the psychological wound that we sustained that has long-term impact and is ingrained…

…background. Incidentally, I was... A couple of months ago, I was reading Homer's Odyssey, which is one of the great classics of Greek literature written 2,800 years ago, or composed 2,800 years ago, written down maybe 2,500 years ago, and there was a scene…

…for somebody who isn't aware whether or not they've experienced it? The way I define it is very straightforward. Trauma comes from a Greek word for wound or wounding, so trauma is a wound. It's a psychological wound in this case. It could be a physical…

…that mean? It's possible that growth is possible until the, uh, till the very end. And I read, recently I'm rereading the Greek playwrights, Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles. And I think it's in the Agamemnon, I believe, but it could be one of the…

…playwrights, Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles. And I think it's in the Agamemnon, I believe, but it could be one of the other Greek plays, that somebody says, an old person who's capable of learning is still young. Well, I like that. So I just hope,…

…that certain music can actually heal people physically a little culture and you spend a lot of time reading about those Greek musicians associated with healing, because he just wanted the music to help people, to empower people, to enable and ennoble people…

…day they dig their gravy a little bit deeper and a little bit faster and they don't realize it. And there's an ancient Greek expression, those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud. That's what we're seeing now. And to my fellow Jews, I can…

…was the first historian. You know what history means? past events, relevant past events. No, that's what I thought too. The actual Greek meaning of the word is investigation, inquiry. So I hope that we can approach the subject not with the sense of,…

…be the other. Just for a moment. And have some curiosity. I talked about history as not being what happened, but its original Greek meaning is an inquiry, is an investigation. Do it. The evidence exists. And you don't have to look to the other side to…

…other hand, we don't use it where it's needed. So what then is trauma? Trauma means, literally means a wound. That's the Greek meaning of the word. And in this case, we're talking about a psychological, emotional wound that lasts until it's healed. And it…

…of this. And all of a sudden, all the Western governments, so this is going too far. This is unacceptable. Probably the Greek government made some noises to the Canadian government did. But they've been doing this to Palestinians for 100 years. And when I…

…they represent dominant influences and mental factors represent an active force in the treatment of patients. In Roman times, the Greek physician Galen already pointed out that women who are depressed are more likely to have breast cancer. So what I'm…

…lessons? I just wish that, I mean, obviously I'm grateful. I wish it was otherwise, you know. In the book, I quote this Greek playwright, Aeschylus, 2,500 years ago, he said that the way that Master or God created us, we have to suffer, suffer into…

…safe you feel just being yourself. In this video, Dr. Gabor Maté explains why this happens. So trauma comes from a Greek word for wound. So trauma is a constriction. It's a narrowing. It's a diminishment of your emotional functioning, your psychic,…

…or you had some emotional pain, but you weren't traumatized. Trauma means a wound. That's the literal meaning of the word. It's a Greek word for wounding. So trauma is a psychological wound that you sustain and it behaves like a wound. So on the one…

…aware, was coined by a British psychiatrist working in Canada called Humphrey Osford, I think his name was, and he took the Greek words psyche for soul or mind and delic which is to manifest. And so, psychedelic actually means mind manifesting. So, it…

…our brains? Sure. So first of all, what is trauma? So the actual meaning of the word trauma is a wound. That's the Greek word for wound or wounding. So trauma is a physical or a psychological wounding. So what causes that wounding? What causes that…

…major population. Stalin was a Georgian, not a Russian. Napoleon was a Corsican, not a Frenchman. Alexander was a Macedonian, not a Greek. And Hitler was an Austrian, not a German. So a real sense of insecurity and inferiority. And they needed power to…

…happened to you. But trauma is not what happened to you. Trauma is what happens inside you. So trauma actually comes from a Greek word for wound. So trauma is the wound that you sustain. It's not the hit, it's the concussion, you know, and everybody…

…focal areas of inflammation where myelin, the fatty tissue lining nerve cells, was damaged and scarred. Multiple sclerosis, from the Greek meaning to harden, is the most common of the so-called demyelinating diseases that impair the functioning of cells in…

…white beard, and somebody else might mean the essence of pure love in the world. So trauma is, the origin of the word is from the Greek word for wound. So trauma is a wound. And how I think about it is, if I wounded you, if I cut your flesh, then…

…you know, There's always the question of what's really going on. I don't have any fresh new universal questions. I mean, the Greek playwrights asked every question there is to ask in terms of the global universal dilemma of human life. So I could repeat…

…happens to them. But I know many examples where people have suffered through illness into truth. And I'm quoting here the Greek playwright, Aeschylus, who, 2,500 years ago, who in his play, The Agamemnon, said that the way Zeus, the master, created us…

…former English teacher, I pay a lot of attention to the meanings of words and the origins of words. And trauma itself is a Greek word for wound or wounding. So in this case, a psychic wound. So the trauma, in other words, is not the event that induced…

…other and on our health. And Dr. Maté, explain how you understand, as you say in the book, that the term trauma has Greek origins, but that it's come to mean something quite different. I mean, in the Greek origin, it referred to a physical injury or…

…in the book, that the term trauma has Greek origins, but that it's come to mean something quite different. I mean, in the Greek origin, it referred to a physical injury or a physical wound. But in psychiatry, in the work of Freud, in psychoanalysis, in…

…is the concussion. So the wound that stays, that's the trauma. Literally, that's the meaning of the word trauma. It's from the Greek word for wounding. So trauma is not a bad thing that happens. Trauma is a wound that happens. Perhaps there's also that…

…to you. But trauma is not what happened to you. Trauma is what happens inside you. So trauma actually comes from a Greek word for wound. So trauma is the wound that you sustain. It's not the hit, it's the concussion. And everybody reacts differently…

…to suffer to seek the truth. Some words to that effect. And whether he knows it or not, he's quoting the great Greek playwright Aeschylus, who in his Agamemnon, the chorus says, we human beings suffer into truth. So literally, it was that suffering…

…wake people up. And I don't recommend that way of waking up, but my God, it works that way very often. One of the Greek playwrights, Aeschylus, wrote in a play called Agamemnon, written 2400 years ago, And he said that the way that the gods created us,…

…Um, how should I say this? A child being abused is not trauma. Sexual assault in itself is not trauma. Trauma comes from the Greek word for wound. So trauma is a wound. So something can happen and not wound you, or something can happen and wound you.…

…us the way you've come to understand it? Sure. Well, it's really rather simple when you look at the word origin, which is a Greek word for wound. Now, a wound is not about the event. It's about what damage or harm the body sustains. you can have a…

…bad things happening to you. It's actually not what happens to you, it's what happens inside you. The word trauma comes from a Greek word for wound or wounding. So trauma is a wound. It's a psychological wound that you sustain or that persists and leaves…

…is it just recognition of these responses or of these like kind of negative ways of coping? But usually what happens is a Greek playwright, Aeschylus, who in his play Agamemnon says that the way the gods created us, we have to suffer into truth. Suffer…

…life experience under their belts. Several, in my case, is an understatement. But in any case, I was just reading some of the Greek tragedies, and I think it's in the Ego Memnon, or Oedipus, or one of the Greek tragedies, there's a line, I could find…

…any case, I was just reading some of the Greek tragedies, and I think it's in the Ego Memnon, or Oedipus, or one of the Greek tragedies, there's a line, I could find it if I looked for it, that the older person who can still learn or still curious…

…you beautifully. Hmm. I'm not quite there yet. Maybe someday I will be, maybe I won't be, but... You know, there's an ancient Greek saying about can't no man happy until they're dead, you know? Because you never know. So, what am I saying? In significant…

…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 Greeks proper, loathed the Macedonians and they feared them.…

…the traumas. Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you. Trauma literally means a wound. And that's the Greek meaning of the word trauma. And you were telling me that you were reading my most recent book, The Myth of Normal,…

…probably answered a million times over your career. How do you define trauma? Sure. So trauma literally means a wound. That's the Greek word for wound or wounding. So trauma is a wound that hasn't healed. So it's really important to understand that trauma…

…and it hasn't got no feeling in it it's got no nerve endings and So there's two aspects to trauma, which comes from the Greek word for wounding or for wound. One is you get the sensitive spot where if you're touched, it really hurts. On the other…

…but they don't. So that means they don't know what they're looking at. So what is trauma? So trauma literally comes from a Greek word for wound or wounding. So trauma is a psychological wound. Trauma is not what happens to you. It's what happens inside…

…there are. Not too many. So what's a trauma? What's trauma? So trauma means a wound. Literally, that's what it means. So that's a Greek word for wound or wounding. So trauma, as I said earlier, could be physical or it could be a cut. That's a trauma.…

…questions, such as you've been had to ask yourself. Yeah. It does begin with asking questions. You know, there's an ancient Greek playwright, Aeschylus, who in his play, The Agamemnon, he says somewhere that, The way the gods created us, or Zeus, the…

…Greek playwright, Aeschylus, who in his play, The Agamemnon, he says somewhere that, The way the gods created us, or Zeus, the Greek god, created us, is that we have to suffer into truth. We have to suffer. So that usually, not always, but usually…

…but they are looking for the essence of it, which is completion, and where you really don't need. You know, Zorba the Greek said, I'm not afraid of anything, I don't need anything, I'm free. So we're looking for that freedom, and that freedom is…

…that's happened in the past? The being trapped itself is a sign of a wound. In fact, the word trauma means wound. The Greek origin of the word trauma is wound. So children who are hurt, but they're not supported, seen, accepted, and helped, they get…

…I think what's happened that the toxicity of the culture, one of my subtitles is toxic culture, and it's got so bad. There's a Greek playwright that I quote in my book. He's Aeschylus, and one of his plays, he said that the way that God's created us,…

…pain, there'd be a lot less suffering. It takes more than just pain. But yeah, it's true. There's a line I'm reading in a Greek play I was looking through recently where they say, we suffer into truth. we suffer in the truth and so the more intense…

…think is much more widely experienced than the narrow medical definitions would allow for. Trauma is, really the word comes from a Greek word for wound. So trauma is a wound. So when you think metaphorically of a wound, what happens around it, either it's…

…you as a result of what happens to you. So trauma is something that happens within. And the word trauma itself comes from the Greek word for wounding. So trauma is a wound. Now, if you can imagine a wound on your flesh, if you're cut by a sharp…

…force in the treatment of patients as chemical and physical agents. And that wasn't new either, because back in Roman times, the Greek physician Galen already pointed out that women who are depressed are more likely to have breast cancer. And now we have…

…in her own book, Educated, identifiable abuse. And those events are traumatic, for sure. But the word trauma itself derives from a Greek origin meaning a wound, a wounding. So trauma is a psychic wounding. And there's two ways you can wound people. you…

…trauma-related without the healing profession, particularly the medical profession, actually recognizing it. So trauma then is, it comes from the Greek word for wounding. Trauma is a wound. It's a psychic wound that leaves a scar, it leaves an imprint in…

…the sky with a beard. So it all depends. In my definition, it's very simple. If you look at the word origin, it's a Greek word for wound or wounding. So trauma is a wound that hasn't healed. Okay. Which also means that trauma is not what happens to…

…It's traumatic when it wounds us in a wound that lasts. Because the origin of the word trauma is actually wound. It's a Greek word for wounding. And so it's a psychological wound. Now what's the nature of a wound? A wound is, if it's open and…

…to wake you up. It'll make you suffer greatly if you don't listen. What else can it do? That's its purpose. So the Greek playwright, Aeschylus, in his play The Agamemnon, he has the Greek chorus say that the way the master, Zeus, created us human…

…listen. What else can it do? That's its purpose. So the Greek playwright, Aeschylus, in his play The Agamemnon, he has the Greek chorus say that the way the master, Zeus, created us human beings, that we have to suffer, suffer into truth. And…

…But to think of trauma only as catastrophe is, well, it's understandable. It's inaccurate. So the word trauma itself comes from a Greek word for wound. So trauma is a wound. And people can be wounded in many, many ways and to different degrees. But…

…inviting me and Vivi and the team for making it possible. Can you hear me okay at the back? Yeah. Let me start with three Greek stories, okay? Given that I'm in Greece. One is that there was an article in the New York Times, maybe about 10, 15 years…

…Given that I'm in Greece. One is that there was an article in the New York Times, maybe about 10, 15 years ago, about a Greek man who comes to the United States and becomes a steelworker in Chicago, I think. He left Greece after the Civil War. He was…

…body cannot be separated. That what happens to people emotionally and socially has a huge impact on their physiology. That's the first Greek story that I'll tell you. The second Greek story that I'll tell you is that, as you all remember, I'm sure very,…

…to people emotionally and socially has a huge impact on their physiology. That's the first Greek story that I'll tell you. The second Greek story that I'll tell you is that, as you all remember, I'm sure very, very well, is that in 2013, Greece was in…

…in 2013, Greece was in great economic crisis. And people were under a lot of stress. So they did a study comparing Greek students here in Athens with comparable age students in Greece. London in the United Kingdom. And the Greek students reported higher…

…But we have another need as well, which is what I call authenticity. Now, authenticity It comes from the word auto, the Greek word auto, the self. So authenticity means being connected to ourselves, to our emotions and to our bodies. Why is that…

…then leads to mental health conditions and to disease. Then there's the question of trauma. Now, trauma, of course, it's another Greek word. It means wound. And you can wound kids. It's a psychological wound that leaves a long-term imprint. You can wound…

…the commonality here? And the commonality is childhood trauma. So what is trauma? The word is very simple. A trauma, the Greek origin of the word trauma is wound. So trauma is a wounding that is sustained. Now think about metaphorically. What happens…

…me some food for thought. There's another take on sin that I can give you, which goes back to the words original Aramaic and Greek origins. And sin means a mistake. It means missing the mark. Missing the mark, right. Yeah. So when we miss the mark, we…

…have knowledge. Because it's the tree of knowledge that they eat of, isn't it? And then, incidentally, there's an analogous story in Greek mythology of Prometheus who brings fire to human beings and he's chained to a rock and an eagle eats his liver.…

…feel like there is that kind of divine design within our wounding and how it shows up and the purpose it serves? So the Greek playwright Aeschylus has in one of his plays the statement that the master Zeus created us so that we have to suffer, suffer…

…catastrophes, people dying, and so on. And, you know, those are traumatic. But Trauma is not the events. Trauma comes from the Greek word for wounding. So trauma is a wound that you sustain. And you can be wounded without catastrophic events. So those…

…thesis of my book very succinctly. We don't have to wait for illness for us to deal with our stuff. I quote this Greek playwright, Aeschylus, who said that the way that God's created us, we human beings, we have to suffer, suffer into the truth. And…

…their underlying trauma? Can people heal without addressing the trauma? Well, literally the meaning of the word trauma comes from the Greek. It means a wound. So can people heal without healing the wound? No, they can't. They can behave the right way,…

…it from the point of view of what is true, there was a deep teaching in it. Deep, deep teaching in it. Now, the Greek playwright Aeschylus in his play The Agamemnon He's got a line where the Greek chorus says that the way the master or Zeus created…

…in it. Deep, deep teaching in it. Now, the Greek playwright Aeschylus in his play The Agamemnon He's got a line where the Greek chorus says that the way the master or Zeus created us human beings, we have to suffer, suffer into truth. Some people have…

…But we also, not but, and we also have a need for what I call authenticity. And what is authenticity? Authenticity comes from the Greek word auto, the self. So we have the need to be ourselves. Now, that's not an air fairy new age concept. It's a…

…to you. Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you. So the word trauma itself comes from a Greek word for wound. Trauma is a wound. So trauma is a psychic wounding. So when I'm walking around the park near my home consumed…

…were traumatized. So what does trauma mean? Well, again, if you look at the word origins, the origin of the word trauma is a Greek phrase for wounding or a wound. So trauma is a wound that you sustained. Now, when people think of the word trauma, they…

…or you had some emotional pain, but you weren't traumatized. Trauma means a wound. That's the literal meaning of the word. It's a Greek word for wounding. So trauma is a psychological wound that you sustain and it behaves like a wound. So on the one…

…Trauma isn't stress, it isn't upset, isn't even pain. Trauma is a wound. In fact, that's what the word means. It comes from a Greek word for wound. So trauma is a wound that you sustain, which then... shows up later on in your life. Unhealed, it shows…

…think, is much more widely experienced than the narrow medical definitions would allow for. Trauma is, really the word comes from a Greek word for wound. So trauma is a wound. So when you think metaphorically of a wound, what happens around it, either…

…kind of a wound that hasn't healed. It could be physical, it could be emotional. In fact, the word trauma comes from the Greek word for wound or wounding. That's literally what it means. And this is an important distinction I'm going to make for you…

…let me finish with a few words about compassion, and then I'll take questions. So compassion means, passion means to suffer, the Greek word, come with. Compassion means to suffer with. So remember, in the beginning, I quoted to you from the Bhagavad Gita.…

…in Islamic medicine. And in medieval times, they were the great Arabic Islamic healers, not to mention the translation of the Greek classics by the Islamic scholars. And in the current situation, in this so-called war of civilizations, when the West began…

…But to think of trauma only as catastrophe is... Well, it's understandable. It's inaccurate. So the word trauma itself comes from a Greek word for wound. So trauma is a wound and people can be wounded in many, many ways and to different degrees. But…

…that's happened in the past? The being trapped itself is a sign of a wound. In fact, the word trauma means wound. The Greek origin of the word trauma is wound. So children who are hurt, but they're not supported, seen, accepted, and helped, they get…

…I think what's happened that the toxicity of the culture, one of my subtitles is toxic culture, and it's got so bad. There's a Greek playwright that I quote in my book. He's Aeschylus, and one of his plays, he said that the way that God's created us,…

…they can't, they're afraid. That's what I say. Now, let me take it more historically, since you asked. In a lot of the Greek plays, there's this famous prophet called Tiresias. He's got the breast of a woman. A lot of the ancients recognized that there's…

…these words that everybody throws around. Yeah, it's a buzzword. Yeah. So let's just define it. So trauma literally comes from the Greek word for wound or wounding. So trauma is a wound, whether it's a physical wound or a psychological wound. In this…

…studied over and over again, and great clinicians have been recognizing this forever. And in fact, 2,400 years ago, Socrates, the Greek philosopher said that the problem with the doctors of today is that they separate the mind from the body. 2,400 years…

…know, they call you a mama's boy and that you're coddled. Like, how does someone break out of that? Well, there was a Greek playwright, Aeschylus, who wrote about drama about 2,500 years ago. And in one of his plays, the Agamemnon, he says that the way…

…were traumatized. So what does trauma mean? Well, again, if you look at the word origins, the origin of the word trauma is a Greek phrase for wounding or a wound. So trauma is a wound that you sustained. Now, when people think of the word trauma, they…