Join Gabor Maté M.D. for a Live Talk & Q&A exploring what therapists’ responsibility is to the global atrocities happening in the world.

Recent events in the Middle East, saliently the atrocities in Gaza, have evoked not only controversy, but have triggered deep grief, rage, despair, intra-group hostility, and alienation. Psychotherapy has historically focused on the individual personal ego while largely ignoring social conditions & collective currents. This assumption, that we are each limited in our ability to change social conditions, but can change our individual responses and adaptations to them, amplifies the colonialist shadow in our profession: that the individual ego is where all the action is at, and that our role as practitioners is in strictly in supporting the individual self/ego, while ignoring social conditions.

Join Gabor Maté M.D. for a Live Talk & short Q&A, as he challenges this mythology of psychotherapy as simply an individual pursuit amidst current events. Global systems of hierarchy, inequity and power enter our room in every session. As therapists, what is our responsibility in engaging it, while respecting each individual self?

Dr Mate shows that one can take a principled position without rancor to either side in a conflict, that we can support collective healing, speak up for humanity and advocate for a world where the psyche is nurtured as part of a holistic ecosystem.