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Talks, interviews and lectures by physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté — on trauma, addiction, stress and disease, ADHD, attachment, and healing.
…sorry. You know, I'm just so keen on this stuff, I interrupt my interviewers all the time. Sorry about that. No, go ahead. Socrates said 2,400 years ago that the problem with the doctors of today is that they separate the mind from the body. so in…
…taken for granted that mind and body can't be separated. Now, Western medicine has cleaved the two apart for really 2,000 years. Socrates already criticized the doctors of his day for separating the mind from the body. The irony, in fact, the tragedy is…
…taken for granted that mind and body can't be separated. Now, Western medicine has cleaved the two apart for really 2,000 years. Socrates already criticized the doctors of his day for separating the mind from the body. the irony in fact the tragedy is…
…in the Western mind, which has got incredible achievements to its credit, let's face it, but the separation has been endemic. So Socrates, said that the problem of the doctors of today, he said, 2400 years ago, that they separate the mind from the body.…
…that. But it was also an escape from tremendous distress that I was carrying inside, but I wasn't looking at it. So I'm with Socrates. He said, the unexamined life is not worth living. which is true so I would say know yourself get to know yourself and…
…is, I had no idea what she was talking about. So I don't know what my own 20-year-old self would have understood. However, Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living. And there's a lot of truth in that. Not from a perspective of…
…just don't teach this stuff in medical school. Why? Because the Western mind separates the mind from the body. 2500 years ago, Socrates said that the problem with the doctors of today is that they separate the mind from the body. So this mind-body…
…especially, well, going back to ancient times, actually, the Western mind is influenced by the Greeks, right? separated mind from the body Socrates said 2400 years ago that the problem with the doctors of today he said 2400 years ago is that they separate…
…body. By the way, you know who the first person was to criticize doctors for separating the mind from the body? It was Socrates. 2,500 years ago, who said that the problem with the doctors of today is they separate the mind from the body. They don't…
…taken for granted that mind and body can't be separated. Now, Western medicine has cleaved the two apart for, really, 2,000 years. Socrates already criticized the doctors of his day for separating the mind from the body. The irony, in fact, the tragedy is…
…people lose their wholeness? What are the influences, impacts, developmental factors that interfere with people's connection to themselves? Now, Socrates, 2500 years ago in ancient Greece said that the problem with the doctors of today is they separate the…
…opinion. There's just a lot of science behind it. Yeah, so that I So the whole point of human beings is, you know what Socrates said 3,500 years ago? 2,500 years ago, sorry. He said, the problem with the doctors of today is they separate the mind from…
…have everything to do with human health. That's my second Greek story. My third Greek story comes from 2400 years ago, when Socrates quoted a doctor from Thrace, up in the north, who criticized his Greek colleagues, and he said that the problem, this is…
…factors, emotional factors, and our physiology, and how that affects our physical and mental health has been amply demonstrated scientifically. See, Socrates, or the doctor that he was quoting, he had no science to back him up. He just had his intuition. In…
…And the more that we get to know ourselves. So let's just use that as a jumping off point. So I believe it was Socrates that said an unexamined life is not worth living. And I've thought of the reverse. An unlived life is not worth examining. And you…
…were already beginning to notice a relationship between the emotional factors and the physiology of illness. As a matter of fact, Socrates, 2400 years ago, quoted a doctor who said that the problem of the doctors of today is they separate the mind…
…of self-knowledge. Well, what did it say as you entered the Delphic Oracle near Athens? It said, know thyself. And what did Socrates say? He said that the unexamined life is not worth living. and i know that the catholic church does not accord status…
…unity that I demonstrate or bring all the literature forward in my books, I didn't invent it. 2,500 years ago in Greece, Socrates said that the problem with the doctors of today is that they separate the mind from the body. The doctors of today,…
…stuff has been 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.…