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Gabor Maté, born January 6, 1944, is a Hungarian-Canadian physician and author recognized for his expertise on addiction, trauma, and childhood development. His seminal work, "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction" (2008), explores the deep psychological roots of addiction. more Gabor Maté, born January 6, 1944, is a Hungarian-Canadian physician and author recognized for his expertise on addiction, trauma, and childhood development. His seminal work, "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction" (2008), explores the deep psychological roots of addiction. Maté also authored "When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress" (2003), which examines the link between stress and chronic illness. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Maté served as a staff physician at Vancouver’s Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility. In 2018, he co-founded the Compassionate Inquiry approach, a therapeutic method integrating mindfulness and somatic practices. Maté’s distinctive approach combines scientific research with clinical experience and personal insights. less

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"The more we stress, the more likely we are to be hung up on behaviors that relieve stress in the short term"
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"We don’t get to witness who we might have been if trauma hadn’t shaped us this way"
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"The circuitry of addiction runs parallel to the circuitry of love"
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"Contrary to what is often taught in schools, mental health is not merely about the absence of disease"
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"The deepest psychological wounds are hidden from the conscious mind"
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"Addiction is not a choice that anybody makes, it’s a response to pain"
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"The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma, or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in the way a developing child will continue to interpret the world and her situation in it"
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"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour"
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"The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates"
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"Not why the addiction but why the pain"
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"The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain"
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