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Scattered Minds (US title: Scattered) is Gabor Maté's account of where attention deficit disorder comes from and how it can heal. For parents of children with ADD and adults who have it.
Author · 2 summaries
Gabor Maté
Canadian physician and writer
- Born
- 6 January 1944 (age 82)
- Birthplace
- Budapest, Hungary
- Nationality
- Canadian
- Occupation
- Physician, Writer
- Known for
- Tying addiction, ADHD and chronic illness to childhood trauma and stress
- Website
- drgabormate.com
- Wikipedia
- Read the article
About Gabor Maté
Gabor Maté was born in Budapest in 1944 to a Jewish family. His maternal grandparents were killed at Auschwitz, and he spent his first year in the Budapest ghetto. The family moved to Canada in 1957. He taught high school English in Vancouver before he trained as a doctor at the University of British Columbia.
He worked for years as a family physician and in palliative care. He then spent more than a decade treating drug users in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, work that shaped In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (2008). After he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder in his fifties, he wrote Scattered Minds (1999). It argues that ADHD grows out of early stress and disrupted attachment, not out of genes alone.
The Myth of Normal (2022), written with his son Daniel, extends the argument to Western society as a whole. It says chronic illness is often the body's response to trauma and to a culture that ignores emotional needs. Some researchers say his account gives too little weight to genetics and to controlled evidence. He lives in Vancouver.
Books by Gabor Maté
Gabor Maté's The Myth of Normal argues that much of what we call normal in modern life makes people sick, linking trauma, stress and illness. For readers who want to understand how early experience and culture shape health.
New books, occasionally