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Albert de Goias MD, CCFP(C)
Albert de Goias Quick Facts
Main Areas: Anger management, Addiction - drugs, alcohol, gambling, sexCareer Focus: I supervise a private treatment center in Toro9nto. I give lectures on Addiction management to addiction counsellors, physicians, business groups.
Affiliation: Prometheum Institute, College of Physicians and Surgeone (Ontario), Ontario Medical Association, Institute on Addiction Studies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyk0ryD5_Vg
Dr. Albert de Goias is a physician licensed to practice in the province of Ontario, Canada. I first became interested in the plight of the distressed person while in family practice on Ontario in 1978. At that time, I saw medical conditions that appeared suddenly, intensely, and without anatomical precedent. Research led me to recognize the impact of stress on the body's physiology and I published findings, first at symposia at university, and then in medical publications.
By the end of the eighties, I saw people who were going through a different sort of transition, that of being uprooted from war-torn countries, and lost in new surroundings without enough resources to cope. In the early nineties, I was involved in a different transition, that of people who had to face new responsibilities they recovered from a life of addiction. By accepting that these people simply lost or never developed the belief in themselves to manage rationally when life became tough, it was easy to show them how to build and draw from their most superior strength, that of creative intelligence and believe in that. It became easy and successful to get them to lift themselves out of a rut of addiction and take their place as mature members of their community, usually without the stigma of being a recovering addict. People stopped using because they learned to really like themselves rather than like themselves because they were able to stay clean.
Website: www.understandingchange.org
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Albert de Goias
"Give a man a "WHY" to live for and he will handle any "HOW". Fredrich Nietzche
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antoine de Saint Exupery
Getting Started With Albert de Goias
My website: www.understandingchange.org offers introductory information on this way to management in written statements, PowerPoint presentations, and flash movies. An examination of what we offer as private counselling for addictions can be read at www.prometheum.ca.
