Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

5 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

toephia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Informative, dense, and to-the-point; addresses trauma’s impact on the individual body + the collective; analysis of current Western medical practices; discussion of society and capitalism as source of mass trauma. Empowering and compassionate read. HIGHLY RECOMMEND! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Self harm, Medical content, Pregnancy, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug abuse, Racism, and Panic attacks/disorders

emmawall's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Death, Drug use, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, Chronic illness, Grief, Cancer, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and War

faduma's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Abandonment, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Homophobia, Medical content, Pedophilia, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

meganpbell's review

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

A must read for fans of The Body Keeps the Score and anyone interested in the science and literature of trauma (should be us all!), The Myth of Normal is a moving, groundbreaking, and holistic exploration of just how sick “normal” is, the connection between the mind, personality, experiences, culture and the body, and ways to move forward and heal. I wish it was even more inclusive than it was, but I found it eye-opening, affirming, and crucial.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Addiction, Death, Abandonment, Antisemitism, Body horror, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Cancer, Chronic illness, Classism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Genocide, Medical trauma, War, Pregnancy, Racism, and Terminal illness