Gabor Maté

Gabor Maté is a Canadian physician and author known for his work on trauma, addiction, stress and childhood development. After years in family practice and palliative care, and more than a decade working with severely addicted patients in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, he built a body of work arguing that much of what medicine treats as separate, addiction, autoimmune disease, ADHD, chronic illness, is rooted in early emotional wounds and in the stress of a culture at odds with human needs. His books have made him one of the most influential voices on the mind-body connection.