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Gabor Maté

Physician and author on addiction, trauma and childhood development; wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal.

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Heal SquadPodcast Maria Menounos

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I spoke with @mariamenounos about the link between emotions and illness, and the importance of focusing on mental health, on her Heal Squad podcast. To listen to the full episode, please follow: https://youtu.be/K_IRA88rHLs

x.com ↗·2023-02-08

Compassionate Inquiry Online TrainingCourse Gabor Maté and Sat Dharam Kaur

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Compassionate Inquiry is an in depth teaching and distillation of the approach I have developed to working with human beings beset by personal issues, health problems that need gently guided exploration, mental health challenges, addictions, relationship difficulties and, above all, an unhealthy relationship to their own selves.

His announcement of the online training for Compassionate Inquiry, the therapeutic approach he created and sells.

drgabormate.com ↗·2018-12-20

Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and HealthOther Office of the Surgeon General (U.S.)

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Facing Addiction in America is also the first governmental attempt to ground policy not in prejudice but in research, not in conjecture but in science. It collates an impressive body of evidence to illuminate the pathological processes and impacts of substance addiction in the human brain and body, and suggests evidence-based practices for treatment and prevention.

His published critique of the US Surgeon General’s first report on addiction — praising its science while faulting its framing.

drgabormate.com ↗·2017-03-01

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