The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates. — Gabor Mate Addiction Copy Share Image
“When we first went to Provence, I assumed I would be observing a different culture. With attachment in mind, it became obvious… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“North American society tries to bury many problems under tons of medications, preferring to ignore the social and cultural causes of people’s… — Gabor Maté American society Copy Share Image
“When we focus narrowly on what we should be doing, we become blind to our attachment relationship with our children and its… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“We sometimes find it easier to feel bitterness or rage than to allow ourselves to experience that aching desire for contact that,… — Gabor Maté Anger Copy Share Image
“Despite the superficial similarities created by global technology, the dynamics of peer-orientation are more likely to promote division rather than a healthy… — Gabor Maté Racism Copy Share Image
“Much of what we do arises from automatic programming that bypasses conscious awareness and may even run contrary to our intentions, as… — Gabor Maté Conscious awareness Copy Share Image
“All we know about the advances in addiction treatment arises out of our understanding of trauma. People often think that trauma is… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“Cocaine exerts its euphoric effect by increasing the availability of the reward chemical dopamine in key brain circuits, and this is necessary… — Gabor Maté Motivation Copy Share Image
“Basically, attention follows attachment. The stronger the attachment, the easier it is to secure the child's attention. When attachment is weak, the… — Gabor Maté Attention deficit disorder Copy Share Image
“Freedom in society is gauged by our success in getting what we want and conditioned by status and power, by race, class… — Gabor Maté Freedom Copy Share Image
“In Separation, the second volume of his great trilogy on attachment, John Bowlby described what had been observed when ten small children… — Gabor Maté Anxiety depression Copy Share Image
“Children displaced from their families, unconnected to their teachers, and not yet mature enough to relate to one another as separate beings,… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“Being untempered — unable to tolerate mixed feelings at the same time — is the hallmark of the immature.” — Gabor Maté Mixed feelings Copy Share Image
“And then there’s physical dependence. As defined in medical terms, physical dependence is manifested when a person stops taking a substance and,… — Gabor Maté Aches and pains Copy Share Image
“Another powerful dynamic perpetuates addiction despite the abundance of disastrous consequences: the addict sees no other possible existence for himself. His outlook… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“Culture is a vehicle for true self-expression. The flowering of individual creativity takes place in the context of culture. When a child… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“Throughout the human life span there remains a constant two-way interaction between psychological states and the neurochemistry of the frontal lobes, a… — Gabor Maté Depression Copy Share Image
“Genes are merely codes. They act as a set of rules and as a biological template for the synthesis of the proteins… — Gabor Maté Biology Copy Share Image
“The traditional hospital practice of excluding parents ignored the importance of attachment relationships as regulators of the child’s emotions, behaviour and physiology.… — Gabor Maté Air conditioner Copy Share Image
“For purposes of child-rearing, the crowning achievement of a working attachment is to instill in a child the desire to be good.… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“By the way, let me shatter a myth about addiction. This whole idea that drugs are addictive... they're not in themselves addictive.… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“The only reason for a child not to be aware of his own vulnerability is that it has become too much to… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“A sense of deficient emptiness pervades our entire culture. The drug addict is more painfully conscious of this void than most people… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
