What I Wish I’d Asked Dr. Gabor Maté When I Had the Chance
Mad in America
JUNE 28, 2024
A few months ago, I attended a live Zoom event on Guidely with Dr. Gabor Maté, author of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture. He was talking about being abandoned for a month at the age of one because his mother was protecting his life during the Nazi occupation of Hungary. He explained he could not possibly have any conscious memory of that, but it was preserved in his implicit memory, and was a factor in his lifelong shopping addiction.
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