Books

• Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder/Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It (1999)
• When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress/Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection (2003)
• Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers (2004)
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (2008)
• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture (2022, Co-authored with Daniel Maté)

Notes from his appereance on JRE (#1869) - 13.09.22

• 70% of american on medication
• Half on at least 2?
• We teach parents not pick up their children if they are crying => Trauma
• Hunter&Gathers and Apes sre different. They carry their children everywhere
• Unconditional Love is the 2nd most important need
• Next is being allowed to feel emotion (for survival, lust etc.)
  • Care: Looking after each other
  • Anger: Is normal
• Feeling unwanted
• 2009 Book on Addictions: Addiction always related to Traum 💯
• Inbogane
• “Panic and Grief are the symptoms of a childs reaction to abandonment”
• Anxiety is a response to the environment
  • Not a disease
• The Problem with ADHD is that we try to force the child to adopt its behaviour. Instead of showing them healthy coping mechanisms
• Meet the child needs, so that they can help themself
• You can not love children too much
• But do not try to impose your need for love onto the childs need for love
• What can an adult do?
  • Exercise, Therapy, Medication, Going out to Nature
• Bad Coping: Drugs, Addictions (shopping etc.)
  • Adrenaline Junkies
• Darcia Narvaez

Biographical

• Mother left him with strangers during the Nazi occupation of Budapest.
  • 5 Weeks in Total
  • GM believes this traumatized him for life