Gabor Mate
"...the simple biological fact is that genes only express and realize their potential through interaction with the environment - and that's where things can and do go so easily awry, especially in a stressed-out and increasingly fractured society like ours."
Dr. Gabor Maté helps audiences learn how to improve their physical and emotional self-awareness, contributing to improved health, healing and productivity. Everyone agrees we live in a highly stressed society, and Dr. Maté provides the insights on understanding and overcoming one's hidden stresses.
Contrary to popular belief, external pressures and genetics have little to do with human stress and illness. An expert on the connection between mind and body, Dr. Maté reveals that self-generated emotions have a major effect on physical health. Rather than offering facile, quick-fix solutions to these complex issues, Dr. Maté weaves together scientific research and compelling anecdotes from ordinary people to the famous to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them. His approach is holistic and kaleidoscopic - linking everything from neurophysiology, immunology, and developmental psychology to economic and social policy - and even touches on the spiritual dimensions of disease and healing.
Dr. Maté ran a popular family practice in East Vancouver for two decades. For seven years he also served as Medical Co-ordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital, caring for the terminally ill. More recently he worked for twelve years in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside neighbourhood with patients suffering from hardcore drug addiction, mental illness and HIV.
His books, all Canadian best-sellers, include:
• Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (1999)
• When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (2004)
• Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers (2005), co-written with Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D
• In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction (2009). Recipient of the 2009 Hubert Evans Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.
Client Testimonials:
“…how he defines stress is so different from mainstream interpretations as to be practically revolutionary…what emerges is nothing short of a revelation.”
Edmonton Journal
"Gabor Maté's connections - between the intensely personal and the global, the spiritual and the medical, the psychological and the political - are bold, wise and deeply moral."
Naomi Klein, Author & Award-winning Journalist
"...the simple biological fact is that genes only express and realize their potential through interaction with the environment - and that's where things can and do go so easily awry, especially in a stressed-out and increasingly fractured society like ours."
Dr. Gabor Maté helps audiences learn how to improve their physical and emotional self-awareness, contributing to improved health, healing and productivity. Everyone agrees we live in a highly stressed society, and Dr. Maté provides the insights on understanding and overcoming one's hidden stresses.
Contrary to popular belief, external pressures and genetics have little to do with human stress and illness. An expert on the connection between mind and body, Dr. Maté reveals that self-generated emotions have a major effect on physical health. Rather than offering facile, quick-fix solutions to these complex issues, Dr. Maté weaves together scientific research and compelling anecdotes from ordinary people to the famous to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them. His approach is holistic and kaleidoscopic - linking everything from neurophysiology, immunology, and developmental psychology to economic and social policy - and even touches on the spiritual dimensions of disease and healing.
Dr. Maté ran a popular family practice in East Vancouver for two decades. For seven years he also served as Medical Co-ordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital, caring for the terminally ill. More recently he worked for twelve years in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside neighbourhood with patients suffering from hardcore drug addiction, mental illness and HIV.
His books, all Canadian best-sellers, include:
• Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (1999)
• When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (2004)
• Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers (2005), co-written with Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D
• In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction (2009). Recipient of the 2009 Hubert Evans Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.
Client Testimonials:
“…how he defines stress is so different from mainstream interpretations as to be practically revolutionary…what emerges is nothing short of a revelation.”
Edmonton Journal
"Gabor Maté's connections - between the intensely personal and the global, the spiritual and the medical, the psychological and the political - are bold, wise and deeply moral."
Naomi Klein, Author & Award-winning Journalist
