Gabor Maté

Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there such a thing as a 'cancer personality'? Drawing on scientific research and the author's decades of experience as a practicing physician, this book provides answers to these and other important questions about the effect of the mind-body link on illness and health and the role that stress and one's individual emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.

The Cost of Hidden Stress

When the Body Says No

Daniel Maté

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.

In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really “normal” when it comes to health?

Over four decades of clinical experience, Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of “normal” as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today’s culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance. Now Maté brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society—and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Co-written with his son Daniel, The Myth of Normal is Maté’s most ambitious and urgent book yet.

Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Myth of Normal

In this timely and profoundly original new book, bestselling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours. For over seven years Gabor Maté has been the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. His patients are challenged by life-threatening drug addictions, mental illness, Hepatitis C or HIV and, in many cases, all four. But if Dr. Maté’s patients are at the far end of the spectrum, there are many others among us who are also struggling with addictions. Drugs, alcohol, tobacco, work, food, sex, gambling and excessive inappropriate spending: what is amiss with our lives that we seek such self-destructive ways to comfort ourselves? And why is it so difficult to stop these habits, even as they threaten our health, jeopardize our relationships and corrode our lives? Beginning with a dramatically close view of his drug addicted patients, Dr. Maté looks at his own history of compulsive behaviour. He weaves the stories of real people who have struggled with addiction with the latest research on addiction and the brain. Providing a bold synthesis of clinical experience, insight and cutting edge scientific findings, Dr. Maté sheds light on this most puzzling of human frailties. He proposes a compassionate approach to helping drug addicts and, for the many behaviour addicts among us, to addressing the void addiction is meant to fill. I believe there is one addiction process, whether it manifests in the lethal substance dependencies of my Downtown Eastside patients, the frantic self-soothing of overeaters or shopaholics, the obsessions of gamblers, sexaholics and compulsive internet users, or in the socially acceptable and even admired behaviours of the workaholic. Drug addicts are often dismissed and discounted as unworthy of empathy and respect. In telling their stories my intent is to help their voices to be heard and to shed light on the origins and nature of their ill-fated struggle to overcome suffering through substance use. Both in their flaws and their virtues they share much in common with the society that ostracizes them. If they have chosen a path to nowhere, they still have much to teach the rest of us. In the dark mirror of their lives we can trace outlines of our own. —from In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Close Encounters with Addiction

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based - and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition. Gabor Maté is a revered physician who specializes in neurology, psychiatry and psychology - and himself has ADD. With wisdom gained through years of medical practice and research, Scattered Minds is a must-read for parents - and for anyone interested how experiences in infancy shape the biology and psychology of the human brain. Scattered Minds: - Demonstrates that ADD is not an inherited illness, but a reversible impairment and developmental delay - Explains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy - and why - Shows how 'distractibility' is the psychological product of life experience - Allows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behaviours - Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood - Presents a programme of how to promote this development in both children and adults

A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

Scattered Minds

Gordon Neufeld

Argues that the growing phenomenon of peer orientation is undermining family cohesion and explains how parents and teachers can reverse the trend to serve as a source of guidance, love, and security for children.

Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

Hold on to Your Kids

In this breakthrough guide to understanding, treating, and healing Attention Deficit Disorder, Dr. Gabor Maté, an adult with ADD and the father of three ADD children, shared the latest information on: · The external factors that trigger ADD · How to create an environment that promotes health and healing · Ritalin and other drugs · ADD adults …and much more Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has quickly become a controversial topic in recent years. Whereas other books on the subject describe the condition as inherited, Dr. Maté believes that our social and emotional environments play a key role in both the cause of and cure for this condition. In Scattered, he describes the painful realities of ADD and its effect on children as well as on career and social paths in adults. While acknowledging that genetics may indeed play a part in predisposing a person toward ADD, Dr. Maté moves beyond that to focus on the things we can control: changes in environment, family dynamics, and parenting choices. He draws heavily on his own experience with the disorder, as both an ADD sufferer and the parent of three diagnosed children. Providing a thorough overview of ADD and its treatments, Scattered is essential and life-changing reading for the millions of ADD sufferers in North America today.

How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It

Scattered

The Return to Ourselves

A psychologist with a reputation for penetrating to the heart of complex parenting issues joins forces with a physician and bestselling author to tackle one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time -- peers replacing parents in the lives of our children. Dr. Neufeld has dubbed this phenomenon peer orientation, which refers to the tendency of children and youth to look to their peers for direction: for a sense of right and wrong, for values, identity and codes of behaviour. But peer orientation undermines family cohesion, poisons the school atmosphere, and fosters an aggressively hostile and sexualized youth culture. It provides a powerful explanation for schoolyard bullying and youth violence; its effects are painfully evident in the context of teenage gangs and criminal activity, in tragedies such as in Littleton, Colorado; Tabor, Alberta and Victoria, B.C. It is an escalating trend that has never been adequately described or contested until Hold On to Your Kids. Once understood, it becomes self-evident -- as do the solutions. Hold On to Your Kids will restore parenting to its natural intuitive basis and the parent-child relationship to its rightful preeminence. The concepts, principles and practical advice contained in Hold On to Your Kids will empower parents to satisfy their children’s inborn need to find direction by turning towards a source of authority, contact and warmth. Something has changed. One can sense it, one can feel it, just not find the words for it. Children are not quite the same as we remember being. They seem less likely to take their cues from adults, less inclined to please those in charge, less afraid of getting into trouble. Parenting, too, seems to have changed. Our parents seemed more confident, more certain of themselves and had more impact on us, for better or for worse. For many, parenting does not feel natural. Adults through the ages have complained about children being less respectful of their elders and more difficult to manage than preceding generations, but could it be that this time it is for real? -- from Hold On to Your Kids

Hold On to Your Kids

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  Când corpul spune nu este un studiu aprofundat, revelator, plin de informații utile despre stres și influența lui asupra sănătății noastre psihice și fizice. Scris ca un exercițiu de claritate și compasiune, volumul este după chipul și asemănarea autorului său: înarmat cu multe cunoștințe și cu un suflet de aur. – The Georgia Straight O colecție inedită de cazuri reprezentative, extrase din experiența profesională a lui Maté, precum și dintr-o bogată bibliografie medicală. – The Vancouver Sun O explorare captivantă a relației dintre stres și boală. Maté cercetează în profunzime poveștile de viață și psihicul pacienților săi. Ce iese la suprafață nu este altceva decât o mare revelație. – Edmonton Journal Nu există oameni care să nu fi trecut prin episoade de stres acut, fie el provocat de fenomene exterioare, fie produs din cauze interioare. Boala secolului al XXI‑lea ne-a făcut pe toți să simțim măcar de câteva ori în viață că am ajuns la capătul puterilor, determinându-ne să luăm măsuri urgente ca să restabilim echilibrul. După câteva decenii de carieră medicală de excepție, în care a urmărit legătura dintre stres și boală, Gabor Maté a strâns laolaltă poveștile pacienților săi, le-a confruntat cu cele mai recente studii clinice și a dezvăluit consecințele imediate, deseori ignorate, ale stresului de zi cu zi. Cartea sa este un semnal de alarmă și o pledoarie pentru medicina biopsihosocială, una dintre cele mai bune căi prin care ne putem elibera de această cumplită afecțiune a epocii noastre.

Costul stresului ascuns

Când corpul spune nu

Drawing on deep scientific research and Dr Gabor Mate's acclaimed clinical work, When the Body Says No provides the answers to critical questions about the mind-body link -- and the role that stress and our emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, irritable bowel syndrome and multiple sclerosis. With dozens of case studies and stories including those of Lou Gehrig, Betty Ford and Lance Armstrong, Gabor Mate reveals 'The Seven A's of Healing' -- the principles for healing and prevention of illness from hidden stress.

When The Body Says No, In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts, Hold On To Your Kids 3 Books Collection Set By Dr Gabor Maté

Die entscheidende Bedeutung der Kind-Eltern-Bindung

Unsere Kinder brauchen uns!

Luister naar je lichaam, ontdek de onlosmakelijke koppeling tussen lichaam en geest en bovenal je zelfhelende vermogens Wanneer je lichaam nee zegt (When the Body says No) van Gabor Maté is een wereldwijd bekend standaardwerk op het gebied van de onlosmakelijke koppeling tussen lichaam en geest. Nu eindelijk in het Nederlands vertaald! Gabor Maté houdt ons in dit boek een confronterende spiegel voor, waardoor we gaan inzien dat verborgen stress desasteuze gevolgen voor onze gezondheid kan hebben.Wanneer we geen nee durven zeggen tegen onze door stress geregeerde manier van leven, zal ons lichaam dat uiteindelijk voor ons doen. We raken uitgeput en ontwikkelen onder andere hart- en vaatziekten, artritis, kanker en MS. Gebaseerd op wetenschappelijk onderzoek en aan de hand van vele voorbeelden en verhalen uit zijn eigen huisartsenpraktijk en zijn werk in de palliatieve en verslavingszorg, geeft Maté antwoord op vragen over de rol die de mind-bodyconnectie speelt in het ontwikkelen van lichamelijke en geestelijke ziektes. Hij geeft overtuigend bewijs voor deze link en laat bovenal zien dat wij allemaal de wijsheid bezitten om onszelf te helen: Als het lichaam nee zegt ...

Verborgen stress en de gevolgen voor je gezondheid

Wanneer je lichaam nee zegt

verborgen stress en de gevolgen voor je gezondheid

Wie chronischer Stress krank macht – und was Sie dagegen tun können. Internationaler Bestseller übersetzt in 15 Sprachen

Wenn der Körper nein sagt

Wie chronischer Stress krank macht - und was Sie dagegen tun können. Internationaler Bestseller übersetzt in 15 Sprachen.

Close Encounters With Addiction is a lecture Dr. Gabor Maté gave in Los Angeles in April 2011. He talks about his experience as a physician and how many of his patients suffer from mental illness, drug addiction and HIV, or all three.

Argues that A.D.D. is a response to environmental conditions that fail to provide emotional or physical security.

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