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Gabor Maté on what becomes of the desolate child

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘Paul Gillespie still can’t get used to the sounds of crying and pain in the graphic videos of children being raped and molested that he has seen all too often on the Web. “It’s beyond horrible to listen to the … Continue reading →

Posted in 'evil', abuse, blaming, child development, childhood abuse, compassion, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, conflict, criminal justice model, cultural questions, dependence, Disconnection, ethics, fear, Gabor Mate, meaning, perception, pornography, power and powerlessness, sadness & pain, scapegoating, self concept, self esteem, shadow, shame, shaming, trauma, trust, violence, vulnerability | Tagged addiction, addictive behaviour, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, alienation from self, alienation in relationship, alienation in society, altered consciousness, authority, awareness, belonging, bio psychosocial model, bio psychosocial perspective, biomedical model, child development, choice, connection, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, criminal justice system, cultural toxicity, denial, disconnection, dislocation, distress, empathy, expectation, fear, Gabor Mate, healing the past, hostility, impulse regulation, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, interconnectedness, interconnection, interdependence, loss of control, loss of meaning, low cost counselling exeter, manipulation, meaning of addiction, meaninglessness, medical model, meeting emotional need, mental health, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, Paul Gillespie, perception, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, powerlessness, relationship, self concept, self medication, self regulation, self soothing, separation, social context of addiction, social isolation, social isolation and health, societal responsibility, socio-economic disadvantage, substitutes for meaning, toxic culture, toxic stress, trauma, traumatised populations, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | 1 Comment

Neurons to Nirvana: Gabor Maté Interview

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

A wide-ranging collection of excerpts from an interview with Gabor Maté, covering addiction, ayahuasca, past experience, transitional states, Western medicine and the mind/body division, and much more besides. As always, he is very watchable and he talks sense. Well worth … Continue reading →

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