Gabor Maté

Gabor Maté

Born: January 6, 1944
in Budapest, Hungary
Gabor Maté CM is a Hungarian-Canadian physician. He has a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development and trauma, and in their potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health, including on autoimmune disease, cancer, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), addictions, and a wide range of other conditions.

Movies for Gabor Maté...

Physician, Heal Thyself
Title: Physician, Heal Thyself
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 2023
Type: Movie
Dr Gabor Maté has become one of the world’s most influential thinkers about addiction, trauma and childhood development on the back of books like In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, The Myth of Normal and When the Body Says No. He’s pioneered the idea of Compassionate Inquiry as a therapeutic approach, and worked for over a decade on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
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Dosed 2: The Trip of a Lifetime
Title: Dosed 2: The Trip of a Lifetime
Released: August 3, 2022
Type: Movie
Laurie, a terminally ill cancer patient and loving mother of four, is granted the right to legally use magic mushrooms to treat her end of life anxiety. She then embarks on a remarkable journey of personal transformation and healing while exploring lesser known possible cures for cancer, like cannabis oil.
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Records
Title: Records
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Twenty-one years after Alan Zweig’s groundbreaking first feature documentary Vinyl, Zweig returns to the topic of compulsive record collecting with newfound introspection and a sunnier disposition. Punctuated by his signature mirror-confessionals, Records compiles colourful interviews with vinyl enthusiasts, swirling around the proverbial maxim that music has the power to connect us all.
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The Wisdom of Trauma
Title: The Wisdom of Trauma
Character: Self
Released: June 8, 2021
Type: Movie
One in five Americans are diagnosed with mental illness every year. Suicide is the second most common cause of death in the US for youth aged 15-24, and kills over 800,000 people globally per year. Drug overdose kills 81,000 in the US annually. The autoimmune disorder epidemic affects 24 million people in the US alone. What is going on? The interconnected epidemics of anxiety, chronic illness and substance abuse are, according to Dr. Gabor Maté, normal - but not in the way you might think.
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The Invisible Class
Title: The Invisible Class
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2020
Type: Movie
From the people in the streets, to it's root causes, The Invisible Class will forever change your perception of homelessness in America.
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Dosed
Title: Dosed
Character: Himself
Released: December 14, 2019
Type: Movie
The documentary follows one woman's quest to overcome anxiety, depression, and opioid addiction through the use of psychedelic medicines.
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Reconnect: The Movie
Title: Reconnect: The Movie
Character: Himself
Released: December 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Back in 2012 I had my very first Ayahuasca ceremony and, needless to say, I was terrified. But it ended up entirely changing my life and that of my future family. Which is why I decided to revisit the medicine in 2018, participating in three Ayahuasca ceremonies over the course of one week in Costa Rica, and document the process. In the film, we tackle my personal story of trying to build London Real into a global media and transformation company while also struggling with my own disconnection from friends, family and my own species. We also dive deep into the division and tribalism currently facing all of us around the world.
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Psyched Out
Title: Psyched Out
Character: Himself
Released: October 23, 2018
Type: Movie
A documentary about psychedelics and psychedelic experiences
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Is Your Story Making You Sick?
Title: Is Your Story Making You Sick?
Character: Self
Released: May 6, 2018
Type: Movie
Humans are story-telling creatures. By thinking, we all unconsciously "author" a self-story in our heads. Most often, the characters and plot of our story is framed by negative experiences from childhood. These painful "stories" then determine our emotions, leading to unhealthy stress, and changes in body chemistry. This is how a person's self-story can turn into a stress-related illness.
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Crazywise
Title: Crazywise
Character: Self
Released: June 6, 2017
Type: Movie
Western culture treats mental disorders primarily through biomedical psychiatry, but filmmakers Phil Borges and Kevin Tomlinson reveal a growing movement of professionals and survivors who are forging alternative treatments that focus on recovery and turning mental “illness” into a positive transformative experience.
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A Walk Through the Tenderloin: The Invisible Class
Title: A Walk Through the Tenderloin: The Invisible Class
Character: Himself
Released: February 1, 2015
Type: Movie
A WALK THROUGH THE TENDERLOIN is a short film out of THE INVISIBLE CLASS, a feature length documentary about America's homeless population, our perceptions of it, and the devastating effects of a lack of affordable housing on modern society.
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Neurons to Nirvana
Title: Neurons to Nirvana
Character: Self
Released: October 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Through interviews with leading psychologists and scientists, Neurons to Nirvana explores the history of four powerful psychedelic substances (LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA and Ayahuasca) and their previously established medicinal potential. Strictly focusing on the science and medicinal properties of these drugs, Neurons to Nirvana looks into why our society has created such a social and political bias against even allowing research to continue the exploration of any possible positive effects they can present in treating some of today's most challenging afflictions.
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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
Title: Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
Character: Himself
Released: January 15, 2011
Type: Movie
A presentation of a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical 'life ground' attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a 'Resource-Based Economy'.
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Vine of the Soul: Encounters with Ayahuasca
Title: Vine of the Soul: Encounters with Ayahuasca
Character: Himself
Released: July 23, 2010
Type: Movie
On a quest for emotional healing and spiritual awakening, a naturopathic doctor and an accountant join others in the Peruvian Amazon to drink a psychedelic brew called ayahuasca.
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Streets of Plenty
Title: Streets of Plenty
Character: Himself - Interviewee
Released: February 5, 2010
Type: Movie
With the 2010 Olympics approaching, will the world get to know Vancouver's darkest secret? 'Streets of Plenty' chronicles one man's perilous journey to live in Vancouver's downtown east side ghetto. The rules of this twisted social experiment? Starting with only a pair of underwear, he must survive the harsh winter streets for 31 days. He has no money, no friends, no family, and most importantly, no home. He must navigate the institutions, policies and services alongside the thousands of people that call Vancouver's streets home.
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Ayahuasca and the Path of the Shaman
Title: Ayahuasca and the Path of the Shaman
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Desperate to recover from his depression, Dave travels from his home in British Columbia, Canada to Peru in order to experience the healing effects of the sacred medicine ayahuasca. After Dave spends some time in the country, a Shipibo healer begins to teach him how to work with the medicine more deeply.