Gabor Maté has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 770 ratings. The most-rated is When the Body Says No.
When the Body Says No
Summary
In When the Body Says No, physician and writer Gabor Maté explores the mind-body link and the connection between stress and disease. Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there a relationship between the ability to express emotions and Alzheimer’s disease? Is there such a thing as a “cancer personality?” Drawing on scientific research and years of experience as a practicing physician, Maté provides answers to these and other important questions about the role that chronic stress and one’s individual emotional make-up play in an array of common diseases, such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, IBS, and multiple sclerosis. Maté carefully explains the biological mechanisms that are activated when stress and trauma exert a powerful influence on the body. He illustrates his ideas with interviews of famous people who've experienced chronic illness (Ronald Reagan, Gilda Radner, Stephen Hawking, and Pamela Wallin), interspersed with intimate life stories collected through his years of practice. Chapters deal with stress, emotional repression, hormones, the "cancer personality," the biology of relationships, and the power of negative thinking. He backs up his claims with compelling evidence from the field, citing many controlled studies that have demonstrated correlations between psychosocial factors and disease. Maté emphasizes that to decipher the hidden factors in chronic illness is not to blame the victim, and the book is free of assumptions that all illnesses are the result of ego issues. Rather, he provides the opportunity to address the unintentional transmission of stress and anxiety through the body and across generations. Dr. Maté has a gift for making complicated medical findings accessible for the lay-person, while still relevant to the professional. Both will be grateful for the final chapter, "The Seven A's of Healing," in which Maté presents an open formula for healing and the prevention of illness resulting from hidden stress.
©2003 Gabor Maté (P)2011 Post Hypnotic Press, Inc
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Summary
In this timely and profoundly original book, best-selling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours. For over seven years Gabor Maté has been the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. His patients are challenged by life-threatening drug addictions, mental illness, Hepatitis C or HIV and, in many cases, all four. But if Dr. Maté’s patients are at the far end of the spectrum, there are many others among us who are also struggling with addictions. Drugs, alcohol, tobacco, work, food, sex, gambling, and excessive inappropriate spending: what is amiss with our lives that we seek such self-destructive ways to comfort ourselves? And why is it so difficult to stop these habits, even as they threaten our health, jeopardize our relationships, and corrode our lives? Beginning with a dramatically close view of his drug addicted patients, Dr. Maté looks at his own history of compulsive behaviour. He weaves the stories of real people who have struggled with addiction with the latest research on addiction and the brain. Providing a bold synthesis of clinical experience, insight, and cutting-edge scientific findings, Dr. Maté sheds light on this most puzzling of human frailties. He proposes a compassionate approach to helping drug addicts and, for the many behaviour addicts among us, to addressing the void addiction is meant to fill. I believe there is one addiction process, whether it manifests in the lethal substance dependencies of my Downtown Eastside patients, the frantic self-soothing of overeaters or shopaholics, the obsessions of gamblers, sexaholics and compulsive internet users, or in the socially acceptable and even admired behaviours of the workaholic. Drug addicts are often dismissed and discounted as unworthy of empathy and respect. In telling their stories my intent is to help their voices to be heard and to shed light on the origins and nature of their ill-fated struggle to overcome suffering through substance use. Both in their flaws and their virtues they share much in common with the society that ostracizes them. If they have chosen a path to nowhere, they still have much to teach the rest of us. In the dark mirror of their lives we can trace outlines of our own. (from In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts)
©2011 Gabor Maté (P)2018 Vintage Canada
Stealth at an H.B.C.U.: An Exception to the Rule
Summary
Content/trigger warning: Certain content in this book is very descriptive and/or graphic and can cause certain feelings of a negative traumatic nature from certain words or events taken place or spoken of here in this nonfiction memoir and should be treated with discretion and care. (Such words as but not limited to rape, rape apologist, rapist, missing girl notice, unwanted advances, death, murder, asphyxiation, attacker, battery, physical assault, trans violence, police conduct, terfs, LGBTQ slurs, framed, words that can trigger bottom dysphoria, stalking, rumored, sexual harassment, slander, etc.) The listener has the right to their feelings, and it is validated, and I, the author, have and maintain the right to share my narrative. Proceed with caution, and always remember to take care and be mindful of your mental health. Disclaimer: As the author, I have recreated events and conversations from memory, to which I can recall of them to the fullest extent. In order to maintain their anonymity in some instances, I have changed all of the names of individuals, along with leaving out identifiable characteristics and details such as physical properties, in order to protect the privacy of majority individuals in its entirety. Some language may be seen as grammatically incorrect as this style of writing is structured conversationally and outside of the gender binary system of language. Uses of the words they, them, and theirs will be used in the form of a noun as some people use them as their pronouns. Some explicit language will be used to an extent, as well. All events mentioned in the book are true and based on life in a memoir depiction of the author. However, again, all names mentioned in this book are fake/pen names to maintain privacy and protect identity of individuals mentioned, including the author. I, the author, maintain the right to share my narrative and experiences. "Stealth at an H.B.C.U. shines the light on gender; specifically, transgender and the struggles that come when openly expressing narratives that reveal the soul. Through personalized narratives Stealth loudly shouts, 'Look at me. I am here, too!' The poetic and rhythmic narrative voice of Stealth juxtaposes gender references that keep the listener “woke”. Woke to the truth that the 21st century has not ushered a 21st-century philosophy thinking about the gender spectrum in a community where family, race, and acceptance are historical fabrics within the H.B.C.U. tapestry. Markel Adel humanizes the Black, young transgender experience by recreating for the listener a gender culturally and spiritual vernacular that makes you listen. It makes you listen to the freedom that comes with embracing the truth deep inside you and how that truth can be lived out, without apology at an H.B.C.U. Stealth is revealing and touching!" (Garry Yates, MC, MFA, interim chair, Clark Atlanta University) “How absolutely refreshing! Something innovative, different, and uniquely displayed to show the author’s piercing perception of the many dynamics of gender variant, day-to-day life applications. This audiobook is delivered in a way that not only puts you in the center of the storytelling, but also gives the amazing experience of a journey not just read but heard in the actual voice of the author. The teachable moments that unfold both intentionally and unintentionally render this book both a must-have for those walking and moving in ways that call for authenticity within their gender identity and sexuality that is still real and yet unexposed, simultaneously. Excellent job at telling your story, your way, and sharing with us your experiences, viewpoints, and perspectives of being stealth at an H.B.C.U. True art, sharing the stage with this transgender experience of change, growth, and self-discovery." (Pastor Mykal Shannon, Dynamic Faith Ministries, Inc)
©2020 Savon M. James (P)2021 Savon M. James