{"id":220868,"date":"2022-10-10T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=220868"},"modified":"2022-10-04T04:30:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T03:30:05","slug":"the-myth-of-normal-dr-gabor-mate-on-trauma-illness-and-healing-in-a-toxic-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/10\/the-myth-of-normal-dr-gabor-mate-on-trauma-illness-and-healing-in-a-toxic-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of Normal\u201d: Dr. Gabor Mat\u00e9 on Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>16 Sep 2022<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/logo-democracy-now.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-173623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/logo-democracy-now.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Acclaimed physician and author Dr. Gabor Mat\u00e9 discusses his new book, just out, called &#8220;<em>The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture<\/em>.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people,&#8221; says Mat\u00e9, who argues that &#8220;psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call disease.&#8221; He says healing requires a reconnection between the mind and the body, which can be achieved through cultivating a sense of community, meaning, belonging and purpose. Mat\u00e9 also discusses how the healthcare system has harmfully promoted the &#8220;mechanization of birth&#8221; and how capitalism has fueled addiction and the rise of youth suicide rates.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OvSL6RZCkyI<br \/>\n<em><strong>A renowned speaker and bestselling author,<\/strong> Hungarian-Canadian physician <strong>Dr. Gabor Mat\u00e9<\/strong> (born 6 Jan 1944)<\/em> <em>is an expert on a range of topics including addiction, stress, childhood development, attention deficit disorder, chronic illness, and parental relations. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/drgabormate.com\/\" >https:\/\/drgabormate.com\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 Sep 2022 &#8211; &#8220;The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people,&#8221; says Mat\u00e9. &#8220;Psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call disease.&#8221; He also discusses how the healthcare system has harmfully promoted the &#8220;mechanization of birth&#8221; and how capitalism has fueled addiction and the rise of youth suicide rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[793,2697,2403,734],"class_list":["post-220868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-addiction","tag-dr-gabor-mate","tag-health-care","tag-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}