Books by Dr. Gabor Maté
"If we gain the ability to look into ourselves with honesty, compassion and with unclouded vision, we can identify the ways we need to take care of ourselves," says Maté, who invites us all to be our own health advocates by pursuing emotional competence in seven areas: acceptance, awareness, anger, autonomy, attachment, assertion, and affirmation.
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Those whom we dismiss as 'junkies' are not creatures from a different world, only men and women mired at the extreme end of a continuum on which, here or there, all of us might well locate ourselves." Dr. Maté looks to the root causes of addiction, applying a clinical and psychological view to the physical manifestation and offering some enlightening answers for why people inflict such catastrophe on themselves.
Written from the inside by a person who himself has ADD, with the wisdom gained through years of medical practice and research, Scattered Minds explodes the myth of ADD as a genetically based illness, offering real hope and advice for children and adults who live with this disorder.
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
This book by Dr. Gordon Neufeld (a developmental and clinical psychologist) and Dr. Maté looks at the problem of strong adult/child attachments being replaced by peer attachments in the busy modern world.
His next book, to be published in 2010, will be The Making and Unmaking of Bullies and Victims: A New Look at a Contemporary Malaise, co-written with Dr. Gordon Neufeld.
Sponsors
East West Health CentreYukon Community Development Fund
Yukon Wholistic Health Network
Schedule
April 9 & 10, 2010
Friday, April 9:
* 5:30pm - 7:00pm: registration, Meet & Greet (with appetizers), orientation
* 7:00pm - 9:00pm: Dr. Maté - Keynote address
Saturday, April 10:
* 7:00am - 8:00am: Yoga
* 8:00am - 9:00am: Continental breakfast (included)
* 9:00am - 10:15: Dr. Maté
* 10:15am - 10:30: break
* 10:30am - noon: Dr. Maté
* noon - 1:00pm: lunch (included)
* 1:00pm - 2:45pm: Dr. Maté
* 2:45am - 3:00: break
* 3:00pm - 5:00pm: Dr. Maté
* 5:00pm - 5:30pm: Closing remarks
