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Gabor Mate M.D. addresses professional
and lay audiences all over North America. His four books are all
Canadian bestsellers, published internationally in nearly twenty
languages. The most recent, "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close
Encounters with Addiction" has been awarded the Hubert Evans prize for
literary non-fiction. Dr. Mate was for twenty years a family
practitioner and for seven years served as Medical Coordinator of the
Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital, caring for the terminally
ill. For twelve years he worked in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside with
patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness and HIV.
His other interests encompass childhood developmental issues, childhood
and adolescent mental health, and parenting issues, as articulated in
his books 'Scattered', on attention deficit disorder on which he has a
unique perspective, and "Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Need to
Matter More Than Peers". He also has a unique view of stress and the
mind/body unity in health and illness, the subject of his
most-translated work, "When The Body Says No: Exploring The
Stress/Disease Connection".
