Summary/Abstract

Gabor Mate discusses addiction as a result of interactions with the environment that creates a certain brain state, the role of adverse child experiences in experience and the definition of recovery as not abstinence but recovering your inner self.

Content

Dr. Mate is a best-selling author/speaker on the subject of addiction, stress, childhood development and other topics. Arold Langeveld is a nonduality teacher and addiction counselor in the Netherlands. He worked in several addiction clinics using nonduality principles in his therapy. In this panel, the two will address how addiction is not about the substance or activity, but about the pain of the individual addicted. Dr. Mate will provide his expertise and vast working knowledge of the brain and child development and other issues related to addiction. Arold Langeveld plays a key role in the nonduality movie 'All about Nothing'.

Gabor Maté M.D. is a physician and best-selling author whose books have been published in twenty languages internationally. His interests include child development, the mind-body unity in health and illness, and the treatment of addictions. Gabor has worked in palliative care and as a family physician, and for fourteen years practiced addiction
medicine in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. As a speaker he regularly addresses professional and lay audiences throughout NorthAmerica. His most recent book, In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, won the Hubert Evans Prize for literary non ction. He is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Criminology, Simon Fraser University.