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April 18, 2023

The Myth of Normal

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. Cowritten with his son Daniel, The Myth of Normal is Maté’s most ambitious and urgent book yet. Read More

Invisible Legacies

Magazine Article

March 1, 2023

Invisible Legacies

The Ubiquity of Trauma

When his wife texts to say she’s running late to pick him up at the airport, a renowned trauma expert reexperiences a life-altering moment from his past. Read More

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October 21, 2022

Healing the Wounds of Trauma

FEATURING Dr. Gabor Maté comes an in-depth workshop based on his brand-new book The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture – a riveting follow-up to In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. With SPECIAL GUEST Bruce Perry, MD, renowned child psychiatrist and co-author of the NYT Best-Selling What Happened to You? (with Oprah Winfrey) and The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog. This all-new clinical workshop, based on the brand-new book The Myth of Normal, could powerfully shift your understanding of traumatic stress and how we, as therapists, can help people recover and heal. Together, they’ll explore with you the most common misconceptions around trauma and chronic stress, how and why we get stuck, and the specific pathways to healing. Gabor will specifically cover some of the most prevalent mental health diagnoses therapists are seeing today including: ADHD, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Self-Harm, ODD, Eating Disorders... And how we should be treating them through the lens of developmental trauma. Read More

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October 19, 2022

When the Body Says “No”: Listening to Our Stress & Re-connecting with Our Self

Stress is ubiquitous these days. And it can take a heavy toll unless it is recognized and managed effectively and insightfully. Though compassion fatigue is an oft-used phrase, how accurate is it? Does one truly become fatigued by feeling, expressing, or manifesting compassion? This recording will explore the deeper source of the well-known phenomenon of burnout, when people engaged in caring for others experience a depletion of their energies, a psychic and physical lassitude. Practices will be taught to prevent what is known as compassion fatigue, and to restore our energies if we have been affected by it. Dr. Maté’s presentation includes research findings, compelling and poignant anecdotes from his own extensive experience in family practice and palliative care. Read More

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October 19, 2022

The Biology of Loss: How to Foster Resilience When Attachments Are Impaired

Bestselling author Gabor Maté has become a leading voice for the destigmatization and compassionate treatment of mental health and addiction. He’s the author of four bestselling books, including When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, and the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction.  He’ll discuss how trauma and emotional stress, often hidden below consciousness and interwoven into the very fabric of society, prepare the ground for disease. He'll also explore how to unlock our natural abilities for recovery and healing, particularly at a moment when therapists are struggling in unprecedented ways. Maté will also cover the core elements of healthy human development and what happens when critical attachments are lost or severed. He will discuss what it really means for humans to be resilient in the face of attachment injuries. What emerges is a new paradigm for relating, grounded in the present moment while not flinching from the past. Read More

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October 19, 2022

Dr. Gabor Maté on Addiction: From Heroin to Workaholism - A Biopsychosocial Perspective

For twelve years Dr. Maté was the staff physician at a clinic for drug-addicted people in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where he worked with patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness and HIV, including at Vancouver Supervised Injection Site. This 90-minute recording draws on cutting-edge science to illuminate where and how addictions originate and what they have in common. In his most recent bestselling book In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, he shows that their addictions do not represent a discrete set of medical disorders; rather, they merely reflect the extreme end of a continuum of addiction, mostly hidden, that runs throughout our society. Contrary to what is often claimed, the source of addictions is not to be found in genes, but in the early childhood environment where the neurobiology of the brain’s reward pathways develops and the where the emotional patterns that lead to addiction are wired into the unconscious. Stress, both then and later in life, creates the predisposition for addictions, whether to drugs, alcohol, nicotine, or to behavioral addictions such as shopping or sex. Helping the addicted individual requires that we appreciate the function of the addiction in his or her life. More than a disease, the addiction is a response to a distressing life history and life situation. Once we recognize the roots of addiction and the lack it strives (in vain) to fill, we can develop a compassionate approach toward the addict, one that stands the best chance of restoring him or her to wholeness and health. Read More

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October 19, 2022

When the Body Says “No”: Listening to Our Stress & Re-connecting with Our Self

Stress is ubiquitous these days. And it can take a heavy toll unless it is recognized and managed effectively and insightfully. Though compassion fatigue is an oft-used phrase, how accurate is it? Does one truly become fatigued by feeling, expressing, or manifesting compassion? This recording will explore the deeper source of the well-known phenomenon of burnout, when people engaged in caring for others experience a depletion of their energies, a psychic and physical lassitude. Practices will be taught to prevent what is known as compassion fatigue, and to restore our energies if we have been affected by it. Dr. Maté’s presentation includes research findings, compelling and poignant anecdotes from his own extensive experience in family practice and palliative care. Read More

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October 19, 2022

Bessel A. van der Kolk's 29th Annual Trauma Conference: Main Conference Day 2

The study of trauma has probably been the single most fertile area in helping to develop a deeper understanding of the relationship among the emotional, cognitive, social and biological forces that shape human development. Starting with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults and expanding into early attachment and overwhelming attachment and social experiences in childhood (“Developmental Trauma”), this endeavor has elucidated how certain experiences can “set” psychological expectations and biological selectivity. When addressing the problems of traumatized people who, in a myriad of ways, continue to react to current experience as a replay of the past, there is a need for therapeutic methods that do not depend exclusively on drugs or cognition. We have learned that most experience is automatically processed on a subcortical level of the brain; i.e., by “unconscious” interpretations that take place outside of conscious awareness. Insight and understanding have only a limited influence on the operation of these subcortical processes, but synchrony, movement and reparative experiences do. Workshops included in this recording: The Effects of Trauma on the Mind-Body Relationship in Everyday Life: Posture, Balance, Self-Awareness, Sensory Integration, Giving and Receiving - Matthew Sanford When the Body Says No: Trauma, Physical Illness and Self Care - Gabor Maté, MD Panel Discussion The Evolution of Child Trauma Treatment: 15 Years of Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) - Margaret E. Blaustein, PhD Panel Discussion Healing Relational Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy - Frank Guastella Anderson, MD Amazing Grace: Journey to Wellness -The Intersection of Spirituality &Medicine to Promote Personal Healing and Community Wholeness - Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond, MD, MDiv Read More

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October 19, 2022

Attachment in Adults: How Infant Attachment Security Affects Adult Relationships

Gabor Maté Lisa Ferentz Diane Poole Heller

Over the years, therapists have struggled to help their clients heal from their traumatic experiences. Often using techniques that cover up the symptoms, but never help the client truly heal. Creating a vicious circle of disconnection between the client and therapist. But TODAY there is hope! After many studies and in-depth research, the attachment theory is considered one of the best tools in psychotherapy, for it allows you to hone in on your client’s issues and understand what the “next step” is. “We have a map to the basic emotions, the basic fears, the basic needs, and the basic ways we have of dancing, and these patterns are very predictable, and very reliable, and you can change them in set ways.” ~Susan Johnson As infants, we learn how to heal and protect ourselves based on the connection with our caretakers. It is well-known that if that caretaker connection is broken, this can predict a pattern of insecure attachment styles. In this recording you will discover the importance of attachment history in your clients and the various attachment styles that can help you tailor the therapeutic techniques to your client. “I think the attachment system needs much more attention. And again, it's how do bodies feel safe, how do bodies feel safe by themselves, how do bodies feel safe with other bodies. Is a much more complex issue." ~Bessel van der Kolk This video will guide you through the essentials of the attachment theory that no skills training manual can measure up to. Dive deep and transform your practice with Linda Curran , BCPC, LPC, CACD, CCDPD and premier clinicians, including… Bessel A van der Kolk, MD, New York Times best-selling author and the world’s leading expert on psychological trauma Peter Levine, Ph.D., developer of Somatic Experiencing® Susan Johnson, Ed.D., primary developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy Terry Real, LMFT, founder of the Relational Life Institute Diane Poole Heller, Ph.D. Louis John Cozolino, PhD Lance Dodes, MD Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA Gabor Maté, MD Mary Lou Schack, PhD What the attachment theory has taught us can revolutionize not just how we parent our kids; how we connect with our partners; how we create our families; but how we do psychotherapy. Discover the effects of infant attachment security on adult relationships and transform your practice today! Read More

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October 19, 2022

The Seven Myths of Addiction

For twelve years Dr. Maté was the staff physician at a clinic for drug-addicted people in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where he worked with patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness, and HIV, including at Vancouver Supervised Injection Site. In his recent bestselling book In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts, he draws on cutting-edge science to illuminate where and how addictions originate and what they have in common. Contrary to what is often claimed, the source of addictions is not to be found in genes, but in the early childhood environment where the neurobiology of the brain’s reward pathways develops and where the emotional patterns that lead to addiction are wired into the unconscious. Stress, both then and later in life, creates the predisposition for addictions, whether to drugs, alcohol, nicotine or to behavioral addictions such as shopping or sex. Helping the addicted individual requires that we appreciate the function of the addiction in his or her life. Once we recognize the roots of addiction and the lack it strives (in vain) to fill, we can develop a compassionate approach toward the addict, one that stands the best chance of restoring him or her to wholeness and health. Read More

Gabor Maté, MD, a family practitioner for over three decades, is the author of four bestselling books, including When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. His upcoming books include The Myth of Normal: Illness and Health in an Insane Culture.