Gabor Maté
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Dr. Gabor Maté is a Canadian physician and author, born in Budapest in 1944 and a survivor of the Holocaust. He spent years in family practice and worked as a staff physician in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, treating patients living with addiction, mental illness, and HIV.
Maté draws on medicine, psychology, and his clinical experience to argue that trauma and emotional pain — especially in childhood — underlie much chronic illness and addiction. His approach is grounded in patient stories alongside scientific research.
He is the author of several international bestsellers, including When the Body Says No, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, and The Myth of Normal, co-written with his son Daniel. His books have been published in more than thirty languages.
Maté's views on the roots of illness are influential but not universally accepted in mainstream medicine, and he speaks as a clinician and thinker rather than from controlled studies of his own. Maybe presents his ideas for you to weigh.
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