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.…
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.…