Name: ガボールメイト - 何がポジティブな健康を促進する (Gabor Mate - What Promotes Positive Health)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:09:08.000Z
Duration: 42 min 12 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

A bit about The Zeitgeist Movement for those who aren't aware:

The Zeitgeist Movement, which we'll continue to refer to as TZM,

is a sustainability advocacy organization

We have 1100 chapters throughout the world.

We propose that we as a species take a direct technical approach

to resource and social management, as opposed to

is centered around the concept that we, as a species,

can and should update the workings of a society

to the most efficient, sustainable and proven methods

that science and technology have to offer.

In short, we can be summarized as a movement which advocates

the application of the scientific method for social and environmental concern.

Some background information, though I'm sure Dr. Maté needs no introduction:

Dr. Maté ran a popular family practice in East Vancouver for two decades.

For 7 years, he also served as medical coordinator of the palliative care unit

at Vancouver hospital, caring for the terminally ill.

More recently, he worked for 12 years in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside

with patients suffering from drug addiction, mental illness and HIV.

He's authored four books; the last two have become national

and international best sellers, translated into 9 languages.

(Dr. Maté) 20. - 20 different languages.

A recurring theme throughout his work is the development of the psyche,

mental and physical health and looking at

neurological and psychological mechanisms

which he connects with the need for social change.

Dr. Maté was gracious enough to lend us his expertise

and was featured in the latest of the Zeitgeist film series:

He put forth progressive ideas about what factors come into play

when looking at the development of the human psyche

in relation to its social and physical environment.

We are honored to collaborate with Dr. Gabor Maté

in this joint presentation based on a fairly simple question:

what promotes positive mental health and what would a society

that supports and fosters healthy and stable individuals look like?

Without further ado, please welcome Dr. Maté.

First of all, thank you for coming out to be part of this conversation;

thanks to The Zeitgeist Movement for inviting me.

I need to clarify that I'm not a member of the movement

nor was I gracious enough to put this bit in the movie.

I did not know I was participating when I was interviewed.

I didn't even know there was such a movie,

I was simply interviewed by somebody who thought my ideas were interesting enough

and next thing I know, I'm in the Zeitgeist movie,

I was happy with the film, particularly the part

that has interviews with myself and a number of other people.

We all put forward a perspective which is what I'll be presenting today,

which is that human beings can't be separated from their environment,

and in order to understand the human being, you must understand the environment.

The implication is also that if we're going to be different human beings

or foster different human beings, we have to look at the environment.

The medical practice that I was trained in, the University of British Columbia,

has a very Western ideology-infused medicine.

as a scientific practice, but it's as much ideological as it is anything else.

but interpreted through an ideological lens,

so we must never think of it as pure science.

Unfortunately, it's not a conscious ideological lens,

so that the practitioners are not aware that they have an ideology.

They didn't choose that ideology, they simply grew up in it,

that they're looking objectively at the world.

But as the Buddha pointed out 2500 years ago:

so the kind of perspective that we have will shape what we see

and that's absolutely true of science as well.

What I'm interested in looking at is: before we create the world with our minds,

What kind of minds are we looking at the world with?

That's the question that Western medicine doesn't ask very much.

so that physical illnesses, or illnesses that are considered to be purely physical

like rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, multiple sclerosis,

any chronic health condition you care to name,

is understood only in terms of the organs that it attacks,

but not in terms of the relationship of the body

to the person's psychological, spiritual and social life.

That means if you go to a doctor with a flare up of rheumatoid arthritis,

a disease in which the immune system actually attacks the body itself

and therefore called 'auto-immune disease'

(sort of like if the Canadian army attacked Canada,

which under the current government is a total possibility in my opinion)

the immune system turns against yourself.

We don't ask the question: why is the immune system in mutiny against the body?

We simply give medications to suppress the symptoms.

We deal with surface manifestations, but we don't look at causes

because causes would imply a larger, more holistic look