'It all starts with waking up... to what our bodies are expressing and our minds are suppressing'

Western countries invest billions in healthcare, yet mental illness and chronic diseases are on a seemingly unstoppable rise. Nearly 70% of Americans are now on prescription drugs. So what is 'normal' when it comes to health?

Over four decades of clinical experience, renowned physician and addiction expert Dr Gabor Maté has seen how health systems neglect the role that trauma exerts on our bodies and our minds. Medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today's culture stresses our bodies, burdens our immune systems and undermines emotional balance.

Now, in his most ambitious and urgent book yet, Dr Maté connects the dots between our personal suffering and the pressures of modern-day living - with disease as a natural reflection of a life spent growing further and further apart from our true selves. But, with deep compassion, he also shows us a pathway to health and healing.

Filled with stories of people in the grip of illness or in the triumphant wake of recovery, this life-affirming book, co-written with his son Daniel, proves true health is possible - if we are willing to reconnect with each other and our authentic selves.

Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based – and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition.

Gabor Maté is a revered physician who specializes in neurology, psychiatry and psychology – and himself has ADD. With wisdom gained through years of medical practice and research, Scattered Minds is a must-read for parents – and for anyone interested how experiences in infancy shape the biology and psychology of the human brain.

Scattered Minds:
- Demonstrates that ADD is not an inherited illness, but a reversible impairment and developmental delay
- Explains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy – and why
- Shows how ‘distractibility’ is the psychological product of life experience
- Allows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behaviours
- Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood
- Presents a programme of how to promote this development in both children and adults

• Demonstrates that the condition is not a genetic “illness” but a response to environmental stress
• Explains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy – and why
• Shows how ‘distractibility’ is the psychological product of life experience
• Allows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behaviors
• Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood
• Presents a program of how to promote this development in both children and adults

Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there a connection between the ability to express emotions and Alzheimer’s disease? Is there such a thing as a ‘cancer personality’?

Drawing on deep scientific research and Dr Gabor Maté’s acclaimed clinical work, When the Body Says No provides the answers to critical questions about the mind-body link – and the role that stress and our emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.

When the Body Says No:

- Explores the role of the mind-body link in conditions and diseases such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, irritable bowel syndrome and multiple sclerosis.
- Shares dozens of enlightening case studies and stories, including those of people such as Lou Gehrig (ALS), Betty Ford (breast cancer), Ronald Reagan (Alzheimer’s), Gilda Radner (ovarian cancer) and Lance Armstrong (testicular cancer)
- Reveals ‘The Seven A’s of Healing’: principles in healing and the prevention of illness from hidden stress

To heal addiction, you have to go back to the start…

Featured on Russell Brand’s podcast Under the Skin

Dr Gabor Maté is one of the world’s most revered thinkers on the psychology of addiction. His radical findings – based on decades of work with patients challenged by catastrophic drug addiction and mental illness – are reframing how we view all human development.

In this award-winning modern classic, Gabor Maté takes a holistic and compassionate approach to addiction, whether to alcohol, drugs, sex, money or anything self-destructive. He presents it not as a discrete phenomenon confined to a weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs through (and even underpins) our society; not as a medical ‘condition’, but rather the result of a complex interplay of personal history, emotional development and brain chemistry.

Distilling cutting-edge research from around the world, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts avoids glib self-help remedies, instead promoting self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness. Blending personal stories and science with positive solutions, and written in spellbinding prose, it is a must-read that will change how you see yourself, others and the world.

10th anniversary edition, updated with new chapter on the Opiod crisis

Einmal ADHS, immer ADHS?
Heilungswege jenseits von Ritalin
ADHS – die immer noch unverstandene Krankheit bedeutet für unzählige Menschen ein Leben in Unruhe und Zerrissenheit. Dass bei der
Aufmerksamkeitsdefizitstörung eine Beeinträchtigung der Neurophysiologie besteht, ist auch für den Mediziner DR. GABOR MATÉ unbestritten.
Bei der Ursachenforschung bricht er jedoch mit der bisher gängigen These von der genetischen Veranlagung und legt stattdessen dar, wie Erfahrungen aus der Kindheit sich auf das menschliche Gehirn auswirken. Seine Botschaft an Eltern, Therapeuten, Lehrer und Betroffene: Heilung ist möglich! Sein Rezept: Mehr Einfühlsamkeit und Fürsorge!
Matés einzigartiger Therapieansatz verfolgt einen Prozess der Ganzwerdung. Er hilft Eltern zu verstehen, wie ihre ADHS-Kinder ticken und Erwachsenen, emotionale Selbststeuerung zu erlernen, um Zerstreutheit, Hyperaktivität und Impulsivität nicht mehr ausgeliefert zu sein. Das Buch ist eine aufschlussreiche Mischung aus Erfahrungsberichten, Fallstudien sowie neuesten Erkenntnissen aus Neurowissenschaft, Familiensystemtheorie und Genetik – und beleuchtet diese gravierende Beeinträchtigung nicht zuletzt in Zusammenhang mit gesellschaft­lichen Entwicklungen.
Der Kanadier DR. GABOR MATÉ ist Allgemein- und Palliativmediziner, Bestseller-Autor und selbst Betroffener. Der Experte zu den Themen ADHS, kindliche Entwicklung, Stress und Sucht verfasste mehrere Bücher, darunter den internationalen Best­steller WENN DER KÖRPER NEIN SAGT und IM REICH DER HUNGRIGEN GEISTER.

"Dieses erfreuliche, hilfreiche Buch ist eine willkommene Ergänzung zur Literatur über ADHS. Es ist auf der Grundlage solider Recherche und einer ausgeprägten humanistischen Sensibilität mit viel Humor und Mitgefühl aus einer schonungslos ehrlichen Perspektive geschrieben." - Dr. John Ratey, Professor für Psychiatrie, Harvard Medical School