“The three conditions without which healthy growth does not take place can be taken for granted in the matrix of the womb:… — Gabor Maté Brain development Copy Share Image
“No organism in nature is separate from the system in which it lives, functions and dies, and no natural process can be… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“While we cannot say that any personality type causes cancer, certain personality features definitely increase the risk because they are more likely… — Gabor Maté Cancer Copy Share Image
“The obvious alternative to blaming the parent is to conclude that there is something amiss or lacking in the child. If we… — Gabor Maté Attention deficit disorder Copy Share Image
“Attachment, we have noted, does its work invisibly. People who out of pure instinct have created a good attachment relationship with their… — Gabor Maté Parenting Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest difficulties we human beings seem to have is to relinquish long-held ideas. Many of us are addicted to… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“The question is never “Why the addiction?” but “Why the pain?” — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“In truth, the U.S.-sponsored international “War on Drugs” is a war on poor people, most of them subsistence farmers caught in a… — Gabor Maté American life Copy Share Image
“All the substances that are the main drugs of abuse today originate in natural plant products and have been known to human… — Gabor Maté Human brain Copy Share Image
“Virtually all the authors of popular books on the subject assert that ADD is a heritable genetic disorder. With some notable exceptions,… — Gabor Maté Books Copy Share Image
“Misogyny is a son's outwardly projected rage on a mother who was unable to protect him.” — Gabor Maté Misogyny Copy Share Image
“Vulnerability is usually attacked, not with fists but with shaming. Many children learn quickly to cover up any signs of weakness, sensitivity,… — Gabor Maté Best friend Copy Share Image
“We see that substance addictions are only one specific form of blind attachment to harmful ways of being, yet we condemn the… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“Recognizing that parental responsibility is insufficient for successful child-rearing, but still not conscious of the role of attachment, many experts assume the… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which… — Gabor Mate Being responsible Copy Share Image
“The physiology of human beings is very much affected by the environment and that's what may be called and I refer to… — Gabor Maté Birth and death Copy Share Image
“Young children cannot possibly understand the motives of adults. It means little to a young child that the parent feels love for… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“The transmission of culture assures the survival of the particular forms given to our existence and expression as human beings. It goes… — Gabor Maté Blind obedience Copy Share Image
Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the… — Gabor Mate Breakup Copy Share Image
“The very fact that something is important to us can make our children feel less like doing it. The more we pressure… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“What a lot of people use the internet for is really about meeting their attachment needs. So on Facebook, what do people… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“Far more than a quest for pleasure, chronic substance use is the addict’s attempt to escape distress. From a medical point of… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“The separation of mind and body that informs medical practice is also the dominant ideology in our culture. We do not often… — Gabor Maté American society Copy Share Image
“Cancer and the autoimmune diseases of various sorts are, by and large, diseases of civilization. While industrialized society organized along the capitalist… — Gabor Maté Autoimmune disease Copy Share Image
