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459: How to understand & heal your trauma | Gabor Maté, M.D.

The mindbodygreen Podcast

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The Duckling's Attachment Process

The human brain can't handle what is called an attachment void, an absence of attachment. It's very difficult for any human being to be genuinely and equally in love with two people at the same time. I think that I don't know if they'd have any friends or be able to attach to a partner later on in life. And also you might die, even now you might, you know, and they would leave them totally helpless. So we have the circuit to attach without any information as to who to attach to. A community of the culture should make sure that children's attachments happen the way they're meant to happen.

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