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As a renowned speaker, a bestselling author, and a highly qualified researcher, Dr. Gabor Mate is highly sought after, mainly due to his experience and expertise on a broad range of topics, such as stress, addiction, and childhood development. Here is a quick overview of his professional life, accomplishments, and literary work in the relevant areas.

Dr. Gabor Mate is a world-renowned researcher and speaker with a special interest in child development and trauma and how they shape one’s life. Unlike other therapists who offer quick-fix solutions to these presumably complex disorders, Dr. Mate has weaved together his broad scientific research, diverse case histories, and his own professional experience and insight to explain them from a broad perspective. With this life-long work in these fields, Mate aims to empower and enlighten people to promote their healing and that of others in the best possible way.

With more than two decades of experience in palliative care and family practice, Gabor Mate has worked in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side with patients with mental illness and drug addictions. He is also a bestselling author of four popular books published in over 25 languages. Dr. Gabor is also an internationally renowned speaker specializing in childhood development and addiction trauma. He is also a co-developer of Compassionate Inquiry, a therapeutic approach used by hundreds of physicians, therapists, and counselors for addiction recovery. Owing to his groundbreaking medical research and writing, Gabor Mate has been awarded:

The Order of Canada from the Government of Canada
The Civic Merit Award from the Government of Vancouver

Gabor Mate currently has the following books to his name:

Hold On To Your Kids

In this book, Gabor identifies how the increasing trend of peer orientation in children undermines their family cohesion and interferes with their healthy development. He further elaborates on different ways to reattach the parents back to their kids, win back their love and loyalty, and make them feel understood and safe at home.

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

As an international bestseller and one of the most popular books of Dr. Mate, When the Body Says No is currently available in fifteen different languages. In this book, Mate focuses on educating the masses about learning and healing by providing valuable insights into how a disease is a body’s way of saying no to what its mind does not acknowledge. He explains more about the mind-body link using his experience and relevant scientific research. He uses it to explain health and illness concerning stress and one’s emotional makeup.

Scattered Mind

Scattered Minds provides insights into understanding attention deficit disorder (ADD) and offers a new approach to help those living with this problem. In this book, Dr. Gabor Mate calls ADD a reversible impairment instead of an inherited illness and helps people gain control over it with his unique approach.

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

In this famous book, Dr. Mate provides an array of scientific evidence that proves how addictive tendencies in the brain govern some of life’s most basic needs and functions. These life-sustaining needs include pain relief, motivation and incentive, stress regulation, and the ability to receive and feel love.

In the Myth of Normal

‘In the Myth of Normal’ explores how the Western healthcare system has failed to control the upsurge in chronic illnesses, such as mental illness, high blood pressure, and drug usage. In this book, Dr. Gabor Mate attributed this failure to an inability of the experts to treat an individual on the whole while taking into account factors like trauma and stress. Labeled as the most ambitious work of Mate by far, the book offers a detailed guide for wholesome health and healing.

FAQs

Who is Gabor Mate, and what are his contributions to medical sciences?

Gabor Mate is a renowned author and a physician with a background in family practice. He had a particular interest in child development and trauma since the beginning of his career. He dedicated a significant portion of his life to studying their long-term impacts on mental and physical health. His literature work has investigated significant links between child development and diseases, including autoimmune disease, addiction, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and cancer. The in-depth research of Gabor Mate on addiction has been helping millions of people recover from long-term addictions.

What is Gabor Mate’s age?

Born on January 6, 1994, Gabor Mate is currently 78 years old.

What is Gabor Mate’s Wisdom of Trauma?

Wisdom of Trauma is a famous documentary that features Dr. Gabor Mate explaining the interconnectedness of the recent epidemics of chronic illness, anxiety, and substance abuse with trauma. He calls trauma an invisible force that shapes an individual’s life in many ways, i.e., it shapes the way they live, love, and perceive the world. Dr. Mate also uses Wisdom of Trauma to present his concept of a trauma-informed society where physicians, teachers, parents, legal personnel, and policymakers do more than just make diagnoses, fix behaviors, and mask the symptoms. Instead, he promotes a world where these professionals try to understand the sources from where these diseases and troubling behaviors arise to promote collective healing.

What is Compassionate Inquiry, and how is it beneficial?

Compassionate Inquiry is a type of therapy coined by Dr. Gabor Mate to help clients identify and understand their current beliefs and behaviors in a better way. It is a strategy that enables the therapists to help them see what drives their addictive behaviors. The concept of Compassionate Inquiry is based on one of the most famous Gabor Mate quotes, “Not why the addiction, but why the trauma?” Mental health professionals from all across the world have been utilizing this approach to get to the root of their clients’ addictions while validating their desires and needs while allowing them to speak to themselves in a non-judgmental way.

What is the theory of Mate on addiction?

Gabor Mate has always believed that the roots of addiction go all the way back to a person’s childhood. With his years of research on the human brain and his vast clinical experiences, he claims that the source of addiction lies in the brain’s chemical balance. For Mate, the initial five years of life, including the nine months spent in the womb, are the chief dictators of addiction. Gabor has always emphasized the role of stress, abuse, lack of attachment, and love in childhood, with an inability to process dopamine and endorphins in the brain. These neurochemical deficiencies in the brain lead to addictions and force such people to self-medicate to replace the missing neurostimulation.

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