马泰·加博尔

马泰·加博尔（匈牙利语：Máté Gábor，1944年1月6日—）是匈牙利裔加拿大心理学家、医生和作家。他具备家庭治疗的背景，并对童年发展和创伤、前者对终生身心健康的潜在影响特别感兴趣 ，包括自身免疫性疾病、癌症、过动症、 物质成瘾及其他广泛的领域。

马泰·加博尔的治疗成瘾的方法侧重在患者过去所受过的创伤，并让患者在疗程中表达创伤。 在他的《瘾，驶往地狱的列车，该如何跳下？ 》一书中，马泰讨论了物质成瘾者遭遇过的创伤类型及此创伤又如何影响当事人在后续生活中所做的决定。

著作

分散的心思：新观点看注意力不足过动症的起源与治疗（暂译）。多伦多：AA Knopf，1999 年。ISBN 978-0676971453 。

分散：注意力缺陷障碍是如何产生的以及你能做些什么。美国。

当身体说不的时候：过度压抑情绪、长期承受压力，身体会代替你反抗，多伦多：AA Knopf，2003 年。ISBN 9781785042225 。

留意你的孩子：为什么父母比同侪更须留意（暂译）。与高登·纽菲德合着。多伦多：AA Knopf，2004 年。ISBN 9780307361967 。

瘾驶往地狱的列车, 该如何跳下？多伦多：AA Knopf，2008 年。ISBN 9781785042201 。

电影及影片

连结的力量。短片。wholehearted.org制作，2020

治疗者的大师课。短片。wholehearted.org制作，2020

治疗创伤及成瘾，短片。wholehearted.org制作，2020

创伤的智慧，纪录片。制作人：毛里齐奥和扎亚贝纳佐

时代精神：前进（暂译），2011。导演：彼得约瑟夫

Gabor Maté ( GAH-bor MAH-tay; born January 1944) is a Canadian physician and author. He has worked in family practices and specializes in childhood development and trauma, including long-term effects on physical and mental health, such as autoimmune diseases, cancer, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and addiction.

Maté's approach to addiction emphasizes the role of trauma in the development of substance use disorders, aiming to address underlying emotional pain as part of recovery. He has written five books exploring topics such as ADHD, stress, developmental psychology, and addiction. Some commentators have raised concerns about the scope and evidentiary basis of his claims.

Early life

Maté was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944 to a Jewish family. His maternal grandparents, Josef Lövi and Hannah Lövi, who came from the town of Košice in modern eastern Slovakia, were killed in Auschwitz when he was five months old. His aunt disappeared during the war, and his father endured forced labour at the hands of the Nazi Party. When he was one year old, Maté's mother put him in the care of a stranger for over five weeks to save his life. Maté felt abandoned by his mother and, upon their reunion, wouldn't look at her for several days. Maté has said that the trauma of "abandonment, rage, and despair" still shapes his adult life, triggering similar conflicts he interprets as threats of abandonment—especially in his marriage.

In 1956, the Maté family emigrated to Canada. He was a student during the Vietnam War era in the late 1960s and graduated with a B.A. from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Career

After working as a high school English and literature teacher for several years, Maté returned to the University of British Columbia to obtain his M.D. in general family practice in 1977.

Maté ran a private family practice in East Vancouver, British Columbia, for over 20 years. He was the medical coordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital for seven years.

For twelve years, Maté was the staff physician for the Portland Hotel Society (PHS), a supportive housing nonprofit organization originally based in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He regularly visited tenants in their rooms at the society's various housing projects. A majority of his patients had co-occurring mental health and substance use issues, in addition to chronic health concerns such as HIV.

Working alongside PHS founder and Canadian nurse Liz Evans, Maté helped develop and advance harm reduction and housing first initiatives supported by the organization, including needle exchange and supervised injection programs. He was recognized for prescribing the opioid agonist methadone without requiring or encouraging patients to participate in treatment programs or therapy sessions. Furthermore, he did not suspend a patient's methadone prescription if they tested positive for illicit opioids. He described his experiences working at PHS and treating people with substance use disorders in his 2009 book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. In this book, he discusses forms of trauma experienced by people with addictions, their drug abuse as a coping mechanism, and how their experiences of abuse and neglect, absent coping skills, influence behaviour and decision-making later in life.

In 2008, Maté received national media attention when he defended the physicians working at Insite, a legally supervised injection facility, after federal Minister of Health Tony Clement criticized them as unethical.