Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté

3 reviews

noonanjohnc's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Cancer, Deportation, Infertility, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Ableism, Medical content, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Addiction, Child death, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Confinement

katsmedialibrary's review

Dislike. This book did some things well (or at least better than others like it) but was a long slog and didn’t tell me that much new information I didn’t already know about trauma and health and capitalism. 

Despite presenting itself as a compassionate take on trauma etc, the book repeatedly used ableist, fatphobic, and offensive slurs. Like you’re a book on trauma but you’re still saying “committing suicide”? Get out of here. 

Content warning for fatphobic discussion of “the obesity epidemic” in children and adults and ableist slurs like “stupid” as well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Child abuse, and Ableism

Moderate: Rape

sareetalopez's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.5

This is a good introduction to trauma and its impact as well as how to manage it. I didn’t find it particularly new, or a breakthrough in any way. A much easier read than The Body Keeps the Score but still took me a year to read because the content can be tough. I liked reading about psilocybin and the sections on healing, but I also am critical of some of the discussion on neurodivergence and I think Maté is just a little close to blaming people for their health issues. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Death and Drug use

Minor: Ableism

There is some content about how certain practices have “healed” people from ADHD.