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Gabor Mate, M.D., has been a family practitioner for twenty years. He was a long-standing medical columnist for The Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail in Canada
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Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Maté, Gabor
Fecha de nacimiento
1944-01-06
Género
male
Nacionalidad
Hungary (birth)
Canada
Lugares de residencia
Budapest, Hungary
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Ocupaciones
doctor

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This should be required reading for everyone who encounters people struggling with addictions, and all addicts struggle. Mate tells stories about patients he has known as the physician to many drug addicts and alcoholics, but he also tells of his own and others behavioral addictions. He is sensitive to the people he describes as people and honest about the times his awareness of themas troubled and traumatized people slips into judgement. I have ordered my own copy because this book is inspiring and filled with excellent ideas about harm reduction and addiction.… (más)
 
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nmele | 43 reseñas más. | Mar 26, 2024 |
Full of information and insight, some of which I knew and believed in broadly, but with much less specific knowledge. This is a book that will convnce your parents of the importance of harm reduction and broad drug decriminalization, but may be less useful if you already have a strong understanding of those concepts.
Dr. Maté does occasionally overreach in his analysis--particularly, I noted, in his understanding of overeating as an "addiction"; the passages in which he posits this are some of the most consistently under- or unsourced sections of the book. I also think this book could have used a tighter edit, as it is sometimes repetitious.… (más)
 
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localgayangel | 43 reseñas más. | Mar 5, 2024 |
This book gives the best diagnosis of the state of our society through the prism of mental health. It is by no means an easy read (took me months to get through it, chapter by chapter) and doesn't provide an easy way out, so it's not a prophetic answer to all our troubles. But if you want to have a better understanding of why things are so bad and why a holistic, systemic change is the only way out - this is a book for you.
What I love about Gabor Maté is his ability to show true compassion. I don't think I have ever read an author who is as compassionate to people who are dealing with trauma (and we all are, whether we are aware of it or not). The trauma he describes is not only "the bad things that happen to us", but all of that withheld from us that should be a part of our human experience, even if we are seemingly happy. Maté is very open in identifying the toxic dynamic of current late-capitalist societal trends as being the core issue in the mental health crisis.

While these ideas are not new if these topics are something you are interested in and Maté has written about them before, this is by far the most comprehensive work on this subject with an incredible bibliography. It is scientific, but also philosophical and provocative. I don't agree with everything Maté claims in this book, but it is good to be challenged and reflect.
This is a seminal work that people should read and talk about.
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ZeljanaMaricFerli | 8 reseñas más. | Mar 4, 2024 |
This book is mostly about trauma, but the brilliant author discusses and comments on various other subjects. I will be reading his other books if I can get hold of them.

Sadly, I had to return the book to the library as soon as I had read it, so did not have time to write a detailed review.

His main point seems to be that, although we generally regard a trauma as resulting from a dramatic event, in actual fact we can get trauma from all sorts of seemingly minor events both in childhood and later.

In the author’s own case, he tells us that in 1945 when he was 14 months old, his mother felt obliged to send him away to his aunt’s in order for him to live in relatively safe circumstances.

Dr Maté explains how losing his mother at such an early age resulted in such a trauma that it affected him for the rest of his life in such a way that he reacted unwarrantedly strongly to minor events which triggered his trauma.

I would highly recommend the book to every thinking person.
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IonaS | 8 reseñas más. | Jan 30, 2024 |

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