Dr. Gabor Maté Book Recommendations

Waking the Tiger

Healing Trauma

by Peter A. Levine

"[The author's] first book. And he’s written many wonderful books since then." - Dr. Gabor Maté (Source)

The Drama of the Gifted Child

The Search for the True Self

by Alice Miller

"All about the fact that stuff happens to us as children, negative things happen. Then, we adapt to those things by taking on certain defensive ways of being." - Dr. Gabor Maté (Source)

The Dhammapada

by Eknath Easwaran

"The Buddhist collection of sayings. And it begins with, basically, the idea that we create the world with our minds." - Dr. Gabor Maté (Source)

Don Quixote

by Miguel De Cervantes

"I read [this book] as a child and then, reread many times as an adult. And he’s my favorite character." - Dr. Gabor Maté (Source)

Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne

"One of the seminal books of my childhood. [...] What struck me about Pooh, of course, [was that] there was this bear of little brains who was so much wiser than everybody else." - Dr. Gabor Maté (Source)

The Scourge of the Swastika

A History of Nazi War Crimes During World War II

by Edward Frederick Langley Russell

"I began to read it, saw photographs of the horrors of the concentration camps and the extermination details in Eastern Europe." - Dr. Gabor Maté (Source)

What Doesn't Kill Us

How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength

by Scott Carney

"Wim Hof’s program has become an essential part of my daily regimen for self-care and grounding. I warmly recommend it." - Dr. Gabor Maté (Source)