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Gabor Maté is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician and author known for his work on the connections between trauma, stress, and physical and mental illness, including addiction, ADHD, and autoimmune conditions. After two decades in family practice and seven years as medical coordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital, he spent over a decade as staff physician for the Portland Hotel Society in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, working with patients facing severe addiction, mental illness, and HIV. He is the author of Scattered Minds, When the Body Says No, and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, and co-author of Hold On to Your Kids (with Gordon Neufeld) and The Myth of Normal (with his son Daniel Maté). He developed the psychotherapeutic approach Compassionate Inquiry and has been appointed to the Order of Canada.