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Gabor Maté
said
Capitalism is the system that we live under...
— For a Healthier Society, Ditch the Myth of Normal, Yes! magazine, (September 1, 2022)
Gabor Maté
Hungarian-Canadian physician (1944–)
- Fame61.1
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- Doctors rank#56
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- Fame61.1
- Momentum10.0
- Doctors rank#56
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Born 1944 · age 82Canada
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Updated 2026-06-21
A Canadian physician who reframes addiction and chronic illness as echoes of early trauma — not moral failure, not simple chemistry, but unhealed wounds surfacing in the body years later.
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Born in January 1944, Gabor Maté built a career in family practice before narrowing his lens to childhood development and the long fuse of trauma. He began connecting dots others left scattered: how early pain might later show up as autoimmune disease, cancer, ADHD, addiction. His model of substance use disorder centers emotional injury, not vice, treating recovery as a return to the original hurt. Five books followed, each pressing the case that stress and developmental fracture shape adult health in ways medicine often misses. Some critics question how far his framework stretches and whether…
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Gabor Maté
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It is time to realize, then, addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a psychological and physiological response to painful life experiences.
— Beyond Drugs: The Universal Experience of Addiction | Gabor Maté, MD, MAD in America (August 26, 2022)
Gabor Maté
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If you look at the origin of the word ‘trauma’, it’s simply the Greek word for wounding. Trauma is a wound. You can think of a wound in two ways.
— Quoted in Catherine Jackson talks to Dr Gabor Mate about trauma and compassionate inquiry, Therapy Today, (September 29, 2020)
Gabor Maté
said
If you come to me and say, ‘I’ve got an addiction to… whatever,’ I could say three things to you.
— Quoted in Catherine Jackson talks to Dr Gabor Mate about trauma and compassionate inquiry, Therapy Today, (September 29, 2020)
Gabor Maté
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In our society, we tend to look at people's behaviours, rather than ask what is behind the behaviour...
— Quoted in Amid rising hostility toward drug users in Vancouver, Gabor Maté urges empathy, Ben Mussett · CBC News (September 5, 2020)
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