Gabor Maté
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For twelve years Dr. Gabor 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 this video seminar, Dr. Maté examines the source of addictions in the early childhood environment and the neurobiology of the brain's reward pathways, discusses the chemistry...
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In this video seminar, psychologist Dr. Gabor Maté discusses the limitations of the medical model; considers aspects of interpersonal biology, including the biopsychosocial model, the societal epidemic of loneliness, and human needs and stressors; and looks at societal denial of human needs, talking about behavioral-focused parenting and failure to meet attachment needs. He considers the impact of environment on brain development, the impact of...