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Buddhism vs Modern Psychology
- How we see the world determines the world that we live in. The Buddha was a great psychologist in that he recognized that our perceptions shaped the world that we live in.
- What he didn’t say, and that’s where modern psychology comes in, is that before, with our mind, we create our world, the world creates our minds.
- Buddha's mother died before he was a week old. So, he’s lost his most important relationship and his life began with suffering.
- He spent all of his life trying to find the nature of suffering and how to transcend suffering and how to get beyond it.
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Prisoners of Childhood
Prisoners of Childhood is written by a Swiss German Jewish psychotherapist named Alice Miller.
It was the first book that helped Gabor Mate get clear directions in his future work about trauma:
- stuff happens to us as children, negative things happen
- we adapt...
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The relationship between childhood adversity and adult outcomes
Adverse childhood experience:
- physical or sexual or emotional abuse, a divorce, a parent being jailed, violence in the family, a parent being evicted, a parent being mentally ill, a parent dying.
For each of these adverse childhood experiences, the risk of:
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Dr. Gabor Maté about Addiction
Addiction manifests in any behavior that a person enjoys, finds relief in, and therefore, craves in the short term but suffers negative consequences in the long term, and doesn’t give up despite the negative consequences.
Addiction is about behavior not about the substances...
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The trauma of omission
The trauma of omission where the parents, not that they didn’t love you, not that they didn’t do their best, but they were too stressed, traumatized, distracted themselves.
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What Trauma Is And Is Not
A trauma isn't:
- A divorce when you were small, and your parents fighting
- Your mother’s depression
- Your father’s alcoholism
- Your parents’ argumentation
- Physical or sexual abuse or something else
The trauma is
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Sensitivity vs Creativity vs Suffering
Gifted child or the sensitive child: the more sensitive he or she is the more he feels the pain and stress of the environment:
- sensitivity magnifies the pain that we have
- sensitivity leads to more creativity: there’s a really link between creativity and sensitivity, and creat...
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Famous Figures in Psychology
- Sigmund Freud: He was the founder of psychoanalytic theory. His theories emphasised the unconscious mind, childhood experience, dreams, and symbolism.
- Erik Erikson: He was an ego psychologist. His theory of psychosocial stages describes the develop...
Suffering and Desire
Buddha taught that there is suffering in this world, it is inevitable, and the root cause of suffering is mainly the desires we feel.
We want something, always, and feel miserable when we don't get it.
Stoicism teaches us to live in accordance with nature and to accept that suffering ...
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