Trauma, Healing and The Brain: Community Learning Event, Dr. Gabor Mate
Gabor Maté
Jonathan
Jul 12, 202627 November 2015
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Gabor Maté is a medical doctor recently retired from active practice. He was a family physician for two decades and for seven years he served as Medical Coordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital. For twelve years he worked in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with patients challenged
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A retired doctor argues that childhood trauma is the root cause of addiction, many mental health problems, and even some physical illnesses. He links early abuse, stress, and isolation to later coping behaviors, brain development, and disease, urging parents to prioritize early childhood and adults to heal childhood wounds.
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