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Gabor Maté, Doctor: “I Was Much More Fortunate than My Patients, My Addictions Were Respectable”

Summary by El Pais
Gabor Maté argues that childhood traumas shape adult behavior to a large extent. Born in Budapest in 1944 in a Jewish family, his first years of life were convulsed. He emigrated to Canada during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, he has developed a successful career as a doctor, lecturer and expert writer on addictions, but he has also suffered them, perhaps conditioned by those childhood traumas. In 2009 he published The Kingdom of Hungry Spirits.…

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Gabor Maté argues that childhood traumas shape adult behavior to a large extent. Born in Budapest in 1944 in a Jewish family, his first years of life were convulsed. He emigrated to Canada during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, he has developed a successful career as a doctor, lecturer and expert writer on addictions, but he has also suffered them, perhaps conditioned by those childhood traumas. In 2009 he published The Kingdom of Hungry Spirits.…

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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Monday, May 25, 2026.
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