Closing Your Heart & the Path to Self-Annihilation
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS, 6 Jan 2025
Chris Hedges and Dr. Gabor Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service
28 Dec 2024
Gabor Maté discusses how the subjugation of a people can lead them to close their hearts, enabling moral contradictions but also violent resistance.
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He used to be the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact.
A renowned speaker, bestselling author, and a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, Hungarian-Canadian physician Dr. Gabor Maté (born 6 Jan 1944) is one of the wisest and most humane psychiatric analysts of the present. He is an expert on a range of topics including addiction, stress, childhood development, attention deficit disorder, chronic illness, and parental relations. https://drgabormate.com/
Tags: Oppression, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Psychology, Violence
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