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Addiction Is a Response to Childhood Suffering: In Depth with Gabor Maté

By John Lavitt — 2016

The Fix Q&A with Dr. Gabor Maté on addiction, the holocaust, the “disease-prone personality” and the pathology of positive thinking.

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