Dr. Gabor Maté

So you can't tell from the outside without asking some questions.

Or I can give you the example of a Donald Trump.

who had a really traumatic childhood.

I mean, his father was, as described by his psychologist niece, Mary Trump, Trump's father, who is Mary's grandfather, was a psychopath.

and who really demeaned and harshly treated their children.

So Trump decides unconsciously that... By the way, I'm not talking about his policies here.

This is not a political debate.

And in the book I point out that his opponent was also traumatized, Hillary Clinton.

So this is an ecumenical view of trauma and politics.

I'm not choosing sides here.

I'm just saying that you can see his trauma in every moment he opens his mouth.

His grandiosities need to make himself bigger, more powerful, aggressive and he's as much as said in his autobiography that the world is a horrible place, a dog-eat-dog place where everybody is after you.

Everybody wants your wife and your house and your wealth and this is your friends, never mind your enemies.

But that's the world he lives in.

But that world that he lives in reflects his childhood home.

He developed that world view.

He came to it honestly, you might say.

Because that's the world that he lived in.

And he gets to be really successful in this crazy world.

You know, financially, although people question, you know, was he really as big a success as he says he was?