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The Power of Addiction and The Addiction of Power: Gabor Maté at TEDxRio+20

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Another wonderful talk from Gabor Maté, this time coming in at a little under 19 minutes. We think he’s bang on, both in terms of what he says about addiction and in terms of the wider implications of this for … Continue reading →

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Gabor Maté ‘Who We Are When We Are Not Addicted: The Possible Human’

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

As promised a couple of days ago, here is an whole hour of the wonderful Gabor Maté, sharing his thoughts on this theme. The writer watched this last night, and found it spell-binding. He’s original, profound and funny – and … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, acceptance, actualizing tendency, anti-depressants, child development, childhood abuse, cognitive, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, consciousness, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, empowerment, family systems, fear, flow, Gabor Mate, healing, human condition, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, Joseph Campbell, love, medical model, meditation, mindfulness, organismic experiencing, paradigm shift, perception, person centred, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, reality, relationship, sadness & pain, self, self concept, spirituality, sustainability, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, transformation, trauma, trust, vulnerability, wonder, working with clients | Tagged 'eating disorder', addiction, adverse childhood experience, affordable counselling exeter, alcoholism, anorexia, Ayahuasca, belief, brain chemistry, bulimia, childhood development, childhood distress, childhood trauma, compulsive behaviour, compulsive eating, compulsive shopping, compulsive spending, coping strategies, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug dependency, drug use, enlightenment, faith, Gabor Mate, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, loss, low cost counselling exeter, medicating pain, nature or nurture, neuroscience, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, parental disfunction, parental distress, parenting, person centred counselling exeter, porn addiction, regulating emotion, sadness, self harming, self medicating, self regulation, self soothing, sex addiction, spirituality, stillness, The Possible Human, trauma, Who are we when we are not addicted, Who We Are When We Are Not Addicted, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | 1 Comment

The Roots of Addiction – Gabor Maté

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Powerful, moving film with Gabor Maté talking about the origins and nature of compulsive behaviours and substance use. We are going to post some longer films of Gabor Maté’s work – this is another taster, at just over 3 minutes. … Continue reading →

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Psychiatric Epidemic – Part 1:The Roots – Robert Whitaker

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Okay, this is a long watch. However, if you are a therapist or taking, or thinking of taking, psychiatric drugs, it’s an important one. This is not about an agenda that people do/don’t make that decision – which we think … Continue reading →

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