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PulitzerPrize General Non-Fiction - Wikipedia

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1962–1975

The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore White (1962)
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman (1963)
Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (1964)
O Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (1965)
Wandering Through Winter by Edwin Way Teale (1966)
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (1967)
Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization, by Will and Ariel Durant (1968)
So Human an Animal by René Dubos / The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (1969)
Gandhi's Truth by Erik Erikson (1970)
The Rising Sun by John Toland (1971)
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 by Barbara W. Tuchman (1972)
Fire in the Lake by Frances FitzGerald / Children of Crisis vols. 2 and 3 by Robert Coles (1973)
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (1974)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1975)


1976–2000


Why Survive? by Robert N. Butler (1976)
Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (1977)
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (1978)
On Human Nature by E. O. Wilson (1979)
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter (1980)
Fin-de-siècle Vienna by Carl Emil Schorske (1981)
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1982)
Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan (1983)
The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr (1984)
The Good War by Studs Terkel (1985)
Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas / Move Your Shadow by Joseph Lelyveld (1986)
Arab and Jew by David K. Shipler (1987)
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1988)
A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (1989)
And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (1990)
The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson (1991)
The Prize by Daniel Yergin (1992)
Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills (1993)
Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick (1994)
The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner (1995)
The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg (1996)
Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger (1997)
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (1998)
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (1999)
Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower (2000)


2001–2025


Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix (2001)
Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter (2002)
"A Problem from Hell" by Samantha Power (2003)
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (2004)
Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (2005)
Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins (2006)
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (2007)
The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedländer (2008)
Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon (2009)
The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman (2010)
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011)
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt (2012)
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King (2013)
Toms River by Dan Fagin (2014)
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (2015)
Black Flags by Joby Warrick (2016)
Evicted by Matthew Desmond (2017)
Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr. (2018)
Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold (2019)
The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin / The Undying by Anne Boyer (2020)
Wilmington's Lie by David Zucchino (2021)
Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott (2022)
His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (2023)


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The World's Wisdom: Sacred Texts of the World's Religions Kindle Edition
by Philip Novak (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources!

In this perfect companion to Huston Smith's bestselling The World's Wisdom, Philip Novak distills the most powerful and elegant expressions of the wisdom of humankind. Authentic, poetic translations of key texts are coupled with insightful introductions and "grace notes."


From Library Journal
This is a compendium of sacred texts of the religions of the world, written as a companion for Huston Smith's classic The Religions of Man. Chapters cover Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Primal religions (e.g., Native American, African, etc.). The intent of the book is clearly to whet the appetite of the first-year college student by offering tidbits from the New Testament, Tao Te Ching, Qur'an, Hebrew Bible, etc., in small, tasty portions, easily consumed without any need for deep reading or reflection. The narratives accompanying the texts are informative but are sometimes woven into the texts, occasionally making it difficult to tell where the narrative leaves off and the texts actually begin. There is a lack of ample citations that would allow the interested student to track down the actual location of an excerpt in the original sacred manuscript. Yet when Novak's book is used jointly with Huston's, it will serve as a good text and supplementary reader for any college introductory class in religious studies. Recommended for undergraduate libraries.
Glenn Masuchika, Chaminade Univ. Lib., Honolulu


Review
"[Shows] that all the widsom we need is already available to us in abundance."-- Thomas Moore"Phillip Novak's loving and imaginative presentation of key texts from several traditions offers an excellent resource . . . showing that all the wisdom we need is already available to us in abundance."-- Thomas Moore, author of "Care of the Soul" and "Soul Mates""I do not know where I could turn to find a richer harvest."-- Huston Smith, author of "The World's Religions""A superb collection from the most entrancing literature ever to find expression in human language, literature that emerges from the mysterious depths os the soul where the primordial world of the sacred manifests itself most clearly."-- Thomas Berry, author of "The Dream of the Earth""Beautifully organized . . . the volume is a major contribution to both the lay and professional studies of religion."-- "Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher
An essential collection of the world's spiritual wisdom--a world bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources.
About the Author


Philip Novak is the Santo Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Dominican University in San Rafael, California, where he has taught for over twenty years, and the author of The World's Wisdom, a widely used anthology of the sacred texts of the world's religions and the companion reader to Huston Smith's The World's Religions.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Chapter OneHinduismSowe four, thousand years ago pastoral nomads whose ancestors had sprung from the soil of northeastern Europe entered the Indus Valley of ancient India. They called themselves Aryans, or Noble Ones, and the religion they brought, with them comprised the first evolutionary layer of Hinduism. The ritual centerpiece of Aryan religion was afire sacrifice, a burnt offering to the gods, performed by priests specially trained to chant sacred hymns. The hymns themselves were known as Vedas or "sacred knowledge." The Vedas are the scriptural bedrock of the Hindu tradition.

The aim of the Vedic fire sacrifice, indeed of Aryan religion. in general, was to ensure well-being and prosperity in this life. The early Vedas, the focus of the first section, contain little evidence of sustained thought about human destiny beyond this, life. The doctrines most of us associate with Hinduism-the cycle of reincarnations driven by karma and the liberation from this bondage by means ofyogic discipline-were to be reflected 'only a thousand years later in the most recent layers of Vedic literature, called the Upanishads. Selections from the Upanishads comprise the second section of this chapter. The third section focuses on the scripture called the Bhagavad Gita and has its own introduction.THE EARLY VEDAS1. He, O Men, Is IndraOf the four collections of Vedas, theft- Veda is the most important and foundational. The most popular god of the Rig-Veda is the expansive and dynamic Indra. He is said to have surpassed the other gods in power as soon as he was born (v. I), and he is credited both with having created the world by slaying a cosmic serpent and thus releasing the lifegiving, monsoon-bringing maters (v. 3);. and with helping the Aryans overcome the non Aryan populations they encountered.

The chief wise god who who as soon as born
surpassed the gods in power;
Before whose vehemence the two worlds trembled by reason
of the greatness of his valor: he, O men, is Indra.

Who made firm the quaking earth who set at rest the agitated mountains;
Who measures out the air more widely, who supported heaven: he; O men, is Indra.

Who having slain the serpent released the seven streams . . .
Who has made subject the Dasa colour [the non-Aryan population] and has made it disappear . . .

The terrible one of whom they ask "where is he," of whom they also say "he is not";
He diminishes the possessions of the foe like the stakes of gamblers. Believe in him: he, O men; is Indra . . .

Even Heaven and Earth bow down before him; before his vehemence even the mountains are afraid.
Who is known as the Soma-drinker,l 'holding the bolt in his . . . hand: he, 0 men, is Indra.2. O Agni, Dispeller of the NightBecause of his role in the all-important fire sacrifice, Agni, the god of fire, is perhaps second only to Indra in popularity, with over one thousand hymns dedicated to him in the Vedas. Here is a brief selection from a few.

a. From Rig-Veda I

I praise Agni, domestic priest; divine minister of sacrifice,
Invoker, greatest bestower of wealth . . .

To thee, dispeller of the night; O Agni, day by day with prayer,
Bringing thee reverence, we come;

Ruler of sacrifices, guard of Law eternal [Rta], radiant one,
Increasing in thine own abode.

Be to us easy of approach, even as a father to his son:
Agni, be with us for our weal.

b. From Rig-Veda' II

Thou, Agni, shining in, thy glory through the days, art
brought to life from out the waters, from the stone;
From out the forest trees and herbs that grow on ground, thou,
sovereign lord of men, art generated pure.

By thee, O Agni, all the immortal guileless gods eat with thy
mouth the oblation that. is offered them.
By thee do mortal men give sweetness to their drink.
Pure art thou born, the embryo of the plants of earth.

c. From Rig-Veda VII

I have begotten this new hymn for Agni, falcon of the sky:
will he not give us of his wealth?

Bright, purifier, meet for praise,
Immortal with refulgent glow,
Agni drives Rakshasas [demons] away.
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Jad El Dib
5.0 out of 5 stars Rich Selection of Sacred Texts
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I read “The World’s Wisdom” while reading Huston Smith’s “The World Religions”. The content of the book is so rich, and the chosen translations are of the highest quality. For example, the Tao Te Ching selections are so poetic and better than any of the other translations that i had read.
Each chapter covers one of the religions described in Huston Smith’s book, and highlights the major religious texts involved.
It is a book that can be revisited over and over again, especially for those interested in comparative religions. I highly recommend.
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Ed
4.0 out of 5 stars A tremendous and affordable little book.
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To begin, Novak assembled this book as a compendium to accompany Huston Smith's book on world religions, so you may want to give both of them a shot at the same time, reading Novak's sections after the corresponding Smith sections.

Concerning the book itself, it is a fantastic collection of original sources and it looks like you can get a used copy + shipping for less than $10. For me, that says a lot. Concerning what was selected, there is no doubt that Novak put some serious effort in selecting what he did. The reader will get a very nice exposure to many elements within each religious tradition. However, the translations chosen are not so impressive, but there may be issues beyond the author's control here, so I cannot fault him too much. For example, the Dao Dejing was translated by Stephen Mitchell, who did an alright job, but his is hardly considered to be the authoritative translation. The good news is that it is nearly published in it entirety! On a similar positive note, the citations in the back are often quite informative. With a flip to the back, you will be brought to the original source. Now, I don't want to say that this book is showing its age, but many of the sources seem a bit dated. My suspicion is that this was how the price of the book was kept to a minimum. Also, in the last fourteen years since this was published, a lot of good translation work has come from Chinese philosophy. I worry that some of the older translations may give false impressions as to the state of the research today.

With this book, you have to take the good with the bad, and the best part seems to be the affordability. You will not be able to find a collection as thorough as this for anywhere near the price.
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Zayna
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!
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Purchased this for a class and I have to say I really enjoyed reading it! Well written and quality was perfect!
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Will Jerom
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Highlights / Essentials - not perfect, but good.
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I don’t think any summary of world religious literature is going to be perfect. This could get 5 stars, because there really are some good or representative samples of world religions. Or you could give it 4 or 4 and a half stars because it doesn’t have selections from Jainism or Shinto, nor from Mormonism or Bahai. But what it does cover (Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Indigenous Religions) it does fairly well. I’ve looked at many different selections for world religion classes, and this one I think does the job very well. So as I’ve said, no selection is perfect, but this one of the better ones.
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WKT
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Collection!
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It is, to say the least, a rather daunting and thankless task to undertake. To gather bits and pieces of the worlds wisdom and spiritual writings into one small text--it is certain that you won't please everyone. However the author does a beautiful job here and has selected some real gems for you to savor and to spur the novice on to further reading. This makes a fantastic night stand book--and that is no slight of the book in any way. But I enjoy reading a few passages out of this before falling to sleep. It's not that the book will put you to sleep, rather it's best to read these sort of writings when your mind has settled from the turmoil of the day.
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Connie
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reference Material
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This book, filled with excerpts of sacred texts of many of the major world religions, is a planned companion in structure to Huston Smith's masterpiece, World Religions. It offers the sacred texts without commentary or judgement to support the reader in simply BE-ing with the texts and finding their own interpretation of the essence of the writings. "The World's Wisdom" is a book I will continue to reference throughout my ministry - and that I will share with interfaith students as a valuable source of inspiration and comparison.
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Isa Rose
3.0 out of 5 stars An okay start, but you’ll need more
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Book came in perfect condition. I needed it for class and I find that the excerpts from different religious texts to be both helpful and informative. But, I would suggest to look more into the texts yourself. These are only EXCERPTS and you won’t get the full picture with just this.
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Tami Adams
4.0 out of 5 stars Better than The World’s Religions.
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Got this book for a religions class and was pretty impressed. Bought used and came in great condition. It is meant to go with The World’s Religions which I also read (it was VERY dry). The author did a nice job at filtering through a lot of crap in religious texts and really did a great job at keeping excerpts in context as well as explaining their significance. In the class, I had to pick a text/excerpt in the book and write a paper on it. I chose an excerpt from an interview with Elie Wiesel and the essay turned out great. I loved how there were greater discussions about religion with such excerpts—it made the read much more interesting.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Nice research
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Author really has a good study of texts in many ancient books. These books are considered holy in many religions. The passages are from Bhagavat Geeta, Bible, Koran etc. A more information on the background of books is essentials.
The author selects the passages wisely. There is so material out there that to select a few `sacred' text can be real difficult. The book does not explain why some texts are chosen over others though. This can be a personal preference and I think the author has done well. But sometimes its not easy to find the hidden meaning behind the scriptures. It means much more than just a plane translations. The author uses effective and easy language for translation. However since I know a little Sanskrit, I can say the translation could have been more accurate.
This book can be helpful to scholars, teachers and public speakers.
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Amartya Sen's Hindu Bash Paperback – 30 January 2008
by V.S. Sardesai (Author)
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The volume is an erudite work on Nobel Laureate Prof. Amartya Sen s perception of Hinduism and the Hindus as evident in his books The Argumentative Indian and Identity and Violence. It examines Sen s stinging views on Hindutva and Hindu culture. The author argues that the work engages in Hindu-baiting and scrutinizes certain discrepancies that have crept in as a result of accepting theories, such as Sri Ra ma was a myth and Ramayana is a parable, uncritically. 

The book also comments on Prof. Sen s allegations that Hindu political activists nowadays pay little heed to the tolerant Hindu tradition and are bent upon rewriting history to suit their own ideologies. This painstaking analysis will prove extremely interesting to a wide variety of readers: the scholars of Indology and religion, historians and to the general readers as well.

Contents 
Are not Buddhism and Jainism off-shoots of Santana Dharma? 
-- Is not Ayodhya Rama s Birth Place? 
-- Indian Secularism-Minorityism 
-- Hindu Civilization
 -- Rewriting of Indian History Butby Whom? 
-- Sen s Allegations Against Hindutva 
-- Aryan Invasion of Indian Reconsidered 
-- Paradoxes of Aryan Invasion Theory Considered 
-- The Reasons for Inventing the Theory
-- The Reason for Rejecting the Theory 
-- Sen s Analysis for BJP s Failure in 2004 Elections Considered

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V.S. Sardesai was born at Panaji (Goa) in 1935 and later shifted to Mumbai for higher studies. He worked in the legal departments of various institutions and retired as Asst. General Manager from the Bank of India in 1993. Thereafter, he worked as legal consultant in Indian Institute of Bankers and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. till he shifted to Bangalore in 2004. His articles on legal matters and historical subjects were published in several magazines & newspapers. Other books to his credit are: 
Can a Secular be a Fundamentalist; 
Governance under Sanatana Dharma and Somanatha by Romila Thapar: A Critical Study.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Readworthy Publications Pvt Ltd (30 January 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 102 pages


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[이명권의 동양철학 강의 82] 인도철학과 힌두교 27-우파니샤드 21: 브라만과 세계- 이 세계 모든 것이 브라만이다 '하나를 알아 모든것을 깨닫다 '

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 81] 인도철학과 힌두교 26-우파니샤드 20: “이것도 아니고, 이것도 아니다” “네티, 네티”의 브라만." - 부정에서 긍정으로 가는 길

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 80] 인도철학과 힌두교 25-우파니샤드 19: 브라만의 존재방식, 환희(아난다)-"환희를 누리게 하는 자를 알아야 한다"어떻게 환희의 삶을 살수 있는가?

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 79] 인도철학과 힌두교 24-우파니샤드 18: 순수의식, 브라만의 존재 방식 "생각하는 것을 생각하는 자" 아트만은 하나의 도달점(ekāyanam)

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 78] 인도철학과 힌두교 23-우파니샤드 17:우주 창조의 신화-존재로서의 브라만 2-브라만,"그가 바로 너다""타트 트밤 아시"(tat tvam asi)

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 77] 인도철학과 힌두교 22-우파니샤드 16: 우주 창조의 신화: 존재로서의 브라만 1-비존재에서 존재에로의 과정

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 76] 인도철학과 힌두교 21-우파니샤드 15: 브라만과 아트만의 3가지 본성: 존재, 의식, 환희 - 브라만을 아는 자는 어떻게 되나?

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 75] 인도철학과 힌두교 20-우파니샤드 14: 의식의 아트만과 환희의 브라만 - 호흡과 의식, 대공과 환희의 함수관계

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 74] 인도철학과 힌두교 19-우파니샤드 13: 옴(AUM)이란 무엇인가? - 브라만에 대한 최고의 상징, 만트라

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 73] 인도철학과 힌두교 18-우파니샤드 12: 브라만의 상징- 상징으로만 존재하는 존재

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 72] 인도철학과 힌두교 17-우파니샤드 11: 지고한 영혼의 아트만을 찾아서

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 71] 인도철학과 힌두교 16-우파니샤드 10: 아트만과 도(道)- 만물의 근원자 아트만

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 70] 인도철학과 힌두교 15-우파니샤드 9: 아트만이란 무엇인가?- 불생불멸의 길, 아트만을 이해 하기 위한 몇가지 전제

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 69] 인도철학과 힌두교 14-우파니샤드 8: 궁극적 진리와 실재, 브라만에 이르는 몇가지 길- 고행ㆍ자기통제ㆍ봉사ㆍ베다ㆍ옴(오옴)

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 68] 인도철학과 힌두교 13-우파니샤드 7: 브라만에 이르는 길- 해탈에 이르는 인생의 4주기, 아쉬라마의 삶

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 67] 인도철학과 힌두교 12-우파니샤드 6: 무엇이 브라만인가? 브라만의 본질과 속성에 대한 지속적 대화

[이명권의 동양철학 강의 66] 인도철학과 힌두교 11-우파니샤드 5: 위대한 실재, 만물의 근원- 우파니샤드의 본령 브라만

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Gabor Maté

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Gabor Maté

CM
close-up of Gabor Maté wearing a black jacket, looking directly at camera
Maté in 2013
BornJanuary 6, 1944 (age 80)
Budapest, Hungary
CitizenshipCanada
EducationUniversity of British Columbia (BA, MD)
Spouse
Rae Maté
 
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(m. 1969)​
Children3, including Aaron
Scientific career
Fields
Websitedrgabormate.com

Gabor Maté CM (born January 6, 1944) is a Canadian physician. He has a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development, trauma[1] and potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health including autoimmune disease, cancer, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),[2] addictions and a wide range of other conditions.

Maté's approach to addiction focuses on the trauma his patients have suffered and looks to address this in their recovery.[3] In his book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Maté discusses the types of trauma suffered by persons with substance use disorders and how this affects their decision making in later life.

He has authored five books exploring topics including ADHD, stress, developmental psychology, and addiction. He is a regular columnist for the Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail.

Life and career[edit]

Maté was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944 to a Jewish family.[4][5] His maternal grandparents, Josef Lövi and Hannah Lövi, who came from the town of Košice in eastern Slovakia, were killed in Auschwitz when he was five months old.[5] His aunt disappeared during the war, and his father endured forced labour at the hands of the Nazi Party.[6] When he was one, Maté's mother put him in the care of a stranger for over five weeks to save his life. Upon their reunion, the infant Maté was so hurt that he avoided looking at his mother for several days. He claims this trauma of "abandonment, rage, and despair" continues to manifest in his adult life, leading to similar altercations when he perceives a threat of abandonment, especially from his wife.[7]

In 1956, Maté immigrated to Canada.[5] He was a student during the Vietnam War era in the late 1960s[8] and graduated with a B.A. from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

In 1969, Maté married artist and fellow UBC graduate Rae Maté; together they have three children including writer and journalist for The Grayzone, Aaron Maté.[9]

After working as a high school English and literature teacher for several years, he returned to the University of British Columbia to obtain his M.D. in general family practice in 1977.

Maté ran a private family practice in East Vancouver for over 20 years. He was the medical coordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital for seven years. For 12 years, he was the staff physician at Portland Hotel, a residence and resource centre located in downtown Vancouver. Many of his patients had co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns, in addition to chronic health concerns, such as HIV. He worked in harm reduction clinics in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.[10] He has written about his experiences working with persons with substance use disorders in In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. [11]

In 2008, Maté made national headlines in defence of the physicians working at Insite (a legally supervised safe injection site) after the federal Minister of Health, Tony Clement, attacked them as unethical.[12]

In 2010, Maté became interested in the traditional Amazonian plant medicine ayahuasca and its potential for treating addictions. He partnered with a Peruvian Shipibo ayahuasquero (traditional shamanic healer) and began leading multi-day retreats for addiction treatment, including ones in a Coast Salish First Nations community that were the subject of an observational study by health researchers from the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia. Although preliminary and limited by the observational study design, the research results showed that participants had significant improvements in some psychological measures and reductions in problematic substance use, suggesting that Maté's claims of therapeutic efficacy may be well-founded.[13] However, when the Canadian federal government learned about Maté's work with ayahuasca in 2011, Health Canada threatened to refer the matter to the RCMP if he did not immediately stop his activities with an illegal drug.[14]

Writings and views[edit]

Medicine[edit]

In his books and lectures, Maté emphasizes the role of biopsychosocial aspects of pathology and the role of psychological trauma and stress. He underlines the importance of relations and social attachment for learning and health. His ideas are consistent with a trauma-informed care framework.[15][16]

Maté defines addiction as any behaviour or substance that a person uses to relieve pain in the short term, but which leads to negative consequences in the long term. Without addressing the root cause of the pain, a person may try to stop but will ultimately crave further relief and be prone to relapse. By this definition, many things in modern culture have the potential to become addictive such as gambling, sex, food, work, social media, and drugs.[4] He argues the "war on drugs" actually punishes people for having been abused and entrenches addiction more deeply, as studies show that stress is the biggest driver of addictive relapse and behaviour.[11] He says a system that marginalizes, ostracizes, and institutionalizes people in facilities with no care and easy access to drugs, only worsens the problem.[11][17]

Palestine[edit]

In July 2014, Maté wrote an opinion piece titled, "Beautiful Dream of Israel has become a Nightmare", he described how the policies imposed by Israel were not compatible with a just peace, and described how "There is no understanding Gaza out of context".[18] Maté drew direct comparisons between Gaza and the Warsaw Ghetto and commented on the severe power imbalance stating, "Unlike Israel, Palestinians lack Apache helicopters, guided drones, jet fighters with bombs, laser-guided artillery."[18]

In November 2023, Maté was interviewed by Piers Morgan in which he described how he cried every day for two weeks after visiting Gaza. He also called for an end to the occupation and persecution of Palestinians, as well as a return of Palestinian land occupied since 1967.[19]

Awards[edit]

  • 2009: Hubert Evans Prize for Literary Non-Fiction for In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
  • 2011: the Civic Merit Award of the City of Vancouver "for his extensive work on addiction treatment and his contributions to understanding mental health and youth related to addiction, stress and childhood development" [20]
  • 2018: member of the Order of Canada[21]
  • 2023: Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature for the book The Myth of Normal which he co-authored with his son Daniel. The citation for the award said "The book covers topics from brain chemistry to rethinking what is deemed 'normal.' It's beautifully written and changes the modern-day discussion on health and healing".[22]

Criticism[edit]

Stanton Peele, psychologist and psychotherapist, disagrees with Maté's notion of "trac[ing] every case of addiction back to childhood trauma, stating that "most addicts weren't traumatized as kids; most traumatized people don't become addicts." Peele writes that Maté, whom he still admires for his work with Insite where he also had worked, offers "a reductionist vision of addiction" that does not "account for people's natural tendency to overcome abuse and addictive experiences," and ignores the "strong tendency that has been revealed, time and again, for people with addictions to naturally remediate."[23] Peele, in general, disagrees with the theory adopted decades ago by modern physicians, mental health professionals, research scientists, and others, that addiction is a disease[24][25][26] and opposes all twelve-step drug and alcohol treatment programs.[27]

Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, James Coyne, claimed that Maté's "piling bonkers claims on bonkers claims" he "urges us to abandon what has evolved to be evidence-based solutions to health and social problem," though he concedes that "overspecialization in research and clinical practice is an important issue, especially for the management of difficult-to-diagnosis [sic], multiple comorbidities with multiple medications."[28]

In a high-profile, live-streamed interview with Prince Harry in March 2023, Maté diagnosed the prince publicly with PTSD, ADHD, anxiety, and depression, based on his conversation with him and reading his autobiography Spare. During the chat, Maté told Prince Harry that he had diagnosed him with ADD after reading through his book and hearing about his life experiences.[29][30][31] His decision to do so was described as unorthodox and reckless by some critics.[32]

Books[edit]

  • Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder. Toronto: A.A. Knopf, 1999. ISBN 978-0676971453.
    • Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It. United States.
  • When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress. Toronto: A.A. Knopf, 2003. ISBN 9781785042225.
    • When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection. United States.
  • Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. Co-authored with Gordon Neufeld. Toronto: A.A. Knopf, 2004. ISBN 9780307361967.[9]
  • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. Toronto: A.A. Knopf, 2008. ISBN 9781785042201.
  • The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture, Co-authored with Daniel Maté, Toronto, Canada, A.A. Knopf Canada, 2022 ISBN 9780593083895

Films and videos[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "'How we cope with this has a lot to do with our past'". Irish Independent. January 31, 2021. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  2. ^ "Care to incarceration: what happens to those without a fair start in life". The Independent. September 25, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  3. ^ "Addiction is a Response to Childhood Suffering: In Depth with Gabor Maté - ICPPD". ICPPD. March 2, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  4. ^ Jump up to:a b "How dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction". The Guardian. November 24, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  5. ^ Jump up to:a b c O'Malley, JP (December 21, 2019). "Addictions guru channels survival of the Holocaust into self-help empire". The Times of Israel. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  6. ^ Gutman, Abraham (November 2, 2018). "How a traumatized America finds relief in hate". inquirer.com. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  7. ^ Dr. Gabor Maté — The Myth of Normal, Metabolizing Anger, Processing Trauma, and More, retrieved January 31, 2023
  8. ^ Nov 18, Ryan Meili; Share, 2014 10 min read. "Gabor Maté: On Storytelling, Health, and the Ruling Class". briarpatchmagazine.com. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  9. ^ Jump up to:a b Cocozza, Paula (March 23, 2019). "'If you focus on control, you have lost the battle': how to win back your kids". The Guardian. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  10. ^ Tierney, Allison (February 7, 2017). "How the Stigma of Drug Addiction Hurts All of Us". Vice. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  11. ^ Jump up to:a b c ""In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts": Dr. Gabor Maté, Physician at Vancouver Safe-Injection Site, on the Biological and Socio-Economic Roots of Addiction and ADD". Democracy Now!. February 3, 2010. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
  12. ^ "Doctor calls Clement's Insite comments 'repugnant'". The Canadian Press. CTV News. August 20, 2008. Retrieved October 18, 2008.
  13. ^ Thomas, Gerald; Lucas, Philippe; Capler, Rielle N.; Tupper, Kenneth W. & Martin, Gina (2013). "Ayahuasca-Assisted Therapy for Addiction: Results from a Preliminary Observational Study in Canada". Current Drug Abuse Reviews. 6 (1): 30–42. doi:10.2174/15733998113099990003. PMID 23627784. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
  14. ^ Posner, Michael (November 9, 2011). "B.C. doctor agrees to stop using Amazonian plant to treat addictions". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
  15. ^ Maté, Gabor (2012). "Addiction: Childhood Trauma, Stress and the Biology of Addiction". Journal of Restorative Medicine. 1 (1): 56–63. doi:10.14200/jrm.2012.1.1005.
  16. ^ Treisman, Karen (2021). A treasure box for creating trauma-informed organizations : a ready-to-use resource for trauma, adversity, and culturally informed, infused and responsive systems. Volumes 1 and 2. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBN 978-1-83997-136-5. OCLC 1255846476.
  17. ^ MacBride, Katie. "This 38-year-old study is still spreading bad ideas about addiction". The Outline. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  18. ^ Jump up to:a b Maté, Gabor (July 22, 2014). "Beautiful dream of Israel has become a nightmare". Toronto Star. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
  19. ^ "Holocaust survivor Dr Gabor Mate calls for land return to Palestine". Middle East Monitor. November 29, 2023. Retrieved February 20, 2024.
  20. ^ "Civic Merit Award". vancouver.ca. Retrieved October 16, 2021.
  21. ^ "Dr. Gabor Maté". The Governor General of Canada. Retrieved October 16, 2021.
  22. ^ "Sheila Heti and Gabor Maté among winners of $10K Vine Awards which recognize best Canadian Jewish books". CBC Books. October 23, 2023. Retrieved March 30, 2024.
  23. ^ "The Seductive, But Dangerous, Allure of Gabor Maté". Psychology Today. December 5, 2011. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
  24. ^ Matano1, Robert A.; Wanat1, Stanley F. (January 2000). "Addiction is a treatable disease, not a moral failing". Western Journal of Medicine. 172 (1). National Center for Biotechnology Information: 63. doi:10.1136/ewjm.172.1.63. PMC 1070736. PMID 10695451.
  25. ^ "Substance Use Disorders". ama-assn.org. American Medical Association. October 2023. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  26. ^ "What Is a Substance Use Disorder?". psychiatry.org. American Psychiatric Association. December 2020. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  27. ^ Peele, Stanton; Bufe, Charles (2000). Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment. See Sharp Press. ISBN 978-1-884365-17-1. Archived from the original on April 7, 2017.
  28. ^ Coyne, James (July 23, 2021). "Gabor Maté's Bizarre Ideas on Connections Between Stress and Disease". Medika Life. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  29. ^ "Trauma expert Gabor Maté diagnoses Prince Harry with ADD but says it 'can be cured'". ok.co.uk. March 4, 2023. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
  30. ^ "'This is dangerous': How people have reacted to Harry's conversation with Gabor Maté". yahoo news. March 6, 2023. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
  31. ^ "Response to the Dr. Maté - Prince Harry Interview: Debunking the Trauma Industry". Dr. Mario Martinez Channel. March 5, 2023. Archived from the original on March 8, 2023. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
  32. ^ "No, Gabor Maté Did Not Actually Diagnose Prince Harry with ADHD on Live TV". Additude Magazine Online. March 13, 2023. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
  33. ^ "Drunk on Too Much Life (2021) - IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved September 8, 2023.

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The physician, author and self-help guru came to worldwide prominence when he appeared with Prince Harry last month. He discusses the mind-body connection, the reality of addiction and why trauma can be treated





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Gabor Maté was arriving at Vancouver airport one day when his phone lit up with a text from his wife, Rae. She asked if he still wanted a lift home, and mentioned she hadn’t yet left their house. The physician, mental health expert and bestselling author, who was 71 at the time, replied brusquely: “Never mind.” So enraged was he, as Maté writes in his new book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture, that, when he got home, he “growled a hello” and then “barely made eye contact” for the next day. “Is this the response of a mature adult in his eighth decade?” he asks.


This kind of candour about his failings has won him fans for his work on trauma, addiction, attention deficit disorder (ADD), stress and childhood development, but it is the wisdom he squeezes from it that has made him a self-help guru for some. With more than 1.4 million followers on Instagram, he has an impact on people akin to that of a rock star, but a cerebral one – more Leonard Cohen or Joni Mitchell than Justin Bieber (his husky drawl would sound almost as good narrating the lyrics to I’m Your Man).


Back to the airport. “At times like this, there is very little grown-up Gabor in the mix,” he writes. “Most of me is in the grips of the distant past. This kind of physio-emotional time warp, preventing me from inhabiting the present moment, is one of the imprints of trauma, an underlying theme for many people in this culture.”

The template for his hostility, he says over a video call from his home in Vancouver, against a backdrop of Indigenous art from British Columbia, is to be found in the messages he received as a Jew in Nazi-occupied Hungary. Maté was born in January 1944; in May of that year, the deportation of Hungary’s Jews to Auschwitz began. By the end of the Holocaust, 565,000 Hungarian Jews had been murdered, Maté’s maternal grandparents among them.
Trauma is not what happens to you; it is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you

When he was 11 months old, his mother sent him with a stranger to be cared for by his aunt. In the book, he quotes her diary from the time: “My dear little man,” she starts, explaining that she was forced to part with him because “your little organism could not possibly endure the living conditions [in the] fenced-in Budapest ghetto”.

Maté says trauma, from the Greek for “wound”, “is not what happens to you; it is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you … It is not the blow on the head, but the concussion I get.” That, he says, is the good news. “If my trauma was that my mother gave me to a stranger … that will never not have happened. But if the wound was that I decided as a result that I wasn’t worthwhile as a human being, I wasn’t lovable, that’s a wound that can heal at any time.”

There can be two types of wound, he says. “There’s the capital-T traumatic events,” which include things like being abused as a child and the loss of a parent. Then there are “small-T traumas”. “You can wound a kid not only by doing bad things to them, but by also not meeting their needs,” he says. Even doting parents can easily, unknowingly, inflict small-T traumas on their children. He would know, because, as he admits, he inflicted them on his own kids.


All trauma must be treated with compassion, but he is adamant that it isn’t an excuse for not taking personal responsibility. As he writes about the airport incident, there comes a point when “‘Hitler made me do it’ won’t fly”.

Trauma exists on a personal level, but also in the collective sphere – he cites the persecution of Canada’s Indigenous people and the ensuing addiction, illness and suicide, as well as the legacy of racism and slavery in the US. In most cases, he writes, trauma is multigenerational: “We pass on to our offspring what we haven’t resolved in ourselves.” Left unhealed, trauma “has an impact on your life … about how you feel about yourself, how you see the world, how you get triggered, what you believe about yourself, the kind of relationships you get into. And it shows up in the form of chronic illness.”

Even now, at 79, Maté is still discovering ways that the imprints of trauma can bubble up. Take the past few weeks. At the beginning of March, he engaged in a livestreamed conversation with Prince Harry about loss, trauma and healing. It was rapidly subjected to the same scrutiny as all things the prince touches. Maté was derided in the press as a “so-called ‘trauma expert’”; headlines pitched him as a “Holocaust survivor who hails Hamas as ‘heroes’”; and there was criticism of his diagnosis of Harry as having ADD. Also, his – stylish, it should be said – collarless shirt was belittled.

His own reaction surprised him: “I thought by this age I was past that stuff.” But the encounter with the press, and on social media, left him “roiling inside with upset and even some degree of shame”. He reached out to a psychiatrist friend who asked him: ”What is it about this whole thing that upset you so much?”
I wasn’t diagnosing Prince Harry with a disease … I said: ‘You’ve got a normal response to abnormal circumstances’

For Maté, it was not being seen. “That’s my trigger. If somebody disagrees with me, that’s great, I don’t care. But let them see me and let them disagree with what I actually say and who I actually am and not their distortion.” His friend made a link about how not feeling seen as a child seemed like a life-threatening situation to him, after he was separated from his mother. “As soon as he said that, I just released inside. I got it,” he says, exhaling visibly.

In terms of diagnosing Harry with ADD – something Maté was diagnosed with in his mid-50s – the point that was missed, he says, is that “I wasn’t diagnosing him with a disease. I said: ‘You’ve got no disease.’ I said: ‘You’ve got a normal response to abnormal circumstances. Because if a child is stressed like he was, or I was, what do you do with that stress? You can’t escape it, so what do you do? The brain tunes out … But this is happening when the brain is developing and that affects its circuitry.” While many scientists would disagree, Maté believes this is a “reversible response”.

I wonder if it must be particularly galling to see his views on Israel and Palestine represented with such clumsiness, given they have cost him so dear. When, in the immediate aftermath of the six-day war in 1967, he first made clear his opinions, his father kicked him out of the house. “I basically dared say that Israel had launched this war to occupy territory and they’ll never give it back. Now, I’m going to ask you: how wrong was it?”

His early Zionism was, he says, “wonderful for me, because it made me proud to be a Jew for the first time”. But finding out “the actual history” punctured it: “The slogan about a land without a people for a people without a land. There was never a land without a people; there was a people there.”

For his parents, “who had suffered so much for being Jewish, for a Jewish young man to criticise Israel, to call its policies into question, was so painful”. While his father did, eventually, come to agree with him, it was a subject that he could never discuss with his mother. His maternal grandfather had been a Zionist leader and “to have actually looked at the reality that I was looking at would have meant a betrayal of her father who died in Auschwitz. So I understood that.”

Maté has a heightened level of compassion. Perhaps part of it is because, for him, the real villain is our culture. In The Myth of Normal, he gives the analogy of a toxic culture in a laboratory, meaning one that is “unsuitable for the creatures it is meant to support. Or worse: dangerous to their existence. It is the same with human societies.” He catalogues toxicities as: “illness born of stress, ignorance, inequality, environmental degradation, climate change, poverty and social isolation.”
Don’t ask why the addiction, ask why the pain … addiction is a normal response to trauma

We have, he says, become so “acculturated” that it has become normal, but that doesn’t mean it is healthy. The central argument of the book is: “Those features of our daily life that appear to us now as normal are the ones crying out for the greatest scrutiny.” Like crustacea placed in cold water, we haven’t noticed the heat being turned up to boiling point.

Many of the plights of modern society are, he says, natural responses to an unhealthy culture. Take addiction, something that he doesn’t just relate to drink and drugs, but also to “sex, gambling, pornography, extreme sports, cell phones”. His view is that there is no such thing as an “addictive personality”. Nor is addiction a disease. His mantra is: “Don’t ask why the addiction, ask why the pain. To understand people’s pain, you have to understand their lives. In other words, addiction is a normal response to trauma.”


Maté spent 12 years working in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside – North America’s most concentrated area of drug use. “Every one of my female patients – many of whom were Indigenous, many caught up in the sex trade – had been sexually abused in childhood or adolescence, one marker of the multigenerational legacy born of Canada’s brutal colonial past,” he writes.

I ask why he thinks there can be such an empathy gap for people with addiction. He says that, when he was working with people addicted to hard drugs, he had his own severely addictive behaviours – “work and shopping”. He would lie to his wife about the money he had spent. “At one point, I even left a woman in labour in hospital to go and get a compact disc. I had to have it right then and there.”

He told his patients about his own behaviours. “They said: ‘Doc, you’re just like the rest of us.’ The point is, we are all just like the rest of us.” So, when it comes to addiction, he says, “people find it much easier to project that part of themselves that they don’t like on to a certain despised population than to look at themselves. What they’re actually disdaining is a part of themselves that they dare not look at.”

If your average person is, to a lesser or greater extent, acclimatised to the toxicity of our culture, like a lobster in a pot, how has Maté come to be so cognisant of it? One factor, he says, is that through his work as a family doctor he “knew people before they got sick” and could locate their illnesses in the broader context of their family, their communities and their lives.
To say that the mind is connected to the body is incorrect … They are not connected; they are the same system

He takes umbrage with the way medical teaching is done: “Physicians are trained in this narrow biological view, but, if your eyes are open, you can’t help but notice it.” He started reading the “vast body of literature that has demonstrated the links between emotional dynamics and physical pathology”.

He points to stress as one of many examples; he wrote about it in his 2003 book, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress: “[It] causes inflammation, erodes the healthy functioning of chromosomes, turns genes on that can trigger cancer.” He mentions a study that showed “women with severe post-traumatic stress disorder had double the risk for ovarian cancer. Despite the fact that this study came out four years ago, from Harvard, the average oncologist doesn’t have a clue.”


Maté is passionate about the connection between mind and body. “To say that the mind is connected to the body is incorrect,” he says. “To say that the nervous system is connected to the immune system, and the immune system is connected to the emotional apparatus, all of which is connected to the hormone system, is incorrect. They are not connected; they are the same system.”

I wonder what Maté hopes to achieve with everything he is putting out there. He thinks back to a workshop he attended five years ago, when he was asked to identify his calling and what footprint he wished to leave. “My calling is that people are free in every realm – so in the political realm, hence my stance on the Israel/Palestine conflict, but also in the personal realm, so that we’re not pulled like puppets on a string by our own personal dynamics, by trauma. You may agree with me or not agree with me, but that is my intention in everything I do.”

If he talks a bit like a thought leader, that is because, these days, he is one. He has been well known in Canada for some time, but now, in any airport anywhere in the world, someone will run up to him, crying, shaking and thanking him for his work. That must be a strange experience, I suggest. “You know, it isn’t, because I believe in my work and the truth that I am saying,” he replies.

He is well aware, he says with gentle humour, of “what a flawed little creature I am”. It is a good job that he has his head screwed on, I say, because otherwise his ego would be huge. “To correct you, my ego is huge. I just don’t believe it.”

The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate & Daniel Mate (Ebury, £25). To support The Guardian and Observer, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply.
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