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

Gabor Maté

4.2 AVERAGE

alihewitt's review

3.0

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

gentlem's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

kiaravdm05's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

rinrhosiel's review

4.0

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

tisu's review against another edition

5.0

informative medium-paced

mznamiec's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

aubreegee's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

gembookbee's review against another edition

5.0

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I have long enjoyed Dr Gabor Maté's books and talks on YouTube/Instagram regarding trauma and health. This latest book does cover a lot of these topics but with more updated studies, cases and insight in to a post-Covid environment. I find his analysis of humans as biopsychosocial individuals compelling and his arguments for healing aline with the kinds of social ills and conditions we see currently rising in our world (obesity, anxiety, ALS, MS, cancers)
It's a hefty tome with slow going beginning chapters that lay down the foundations of his approach to healing, but midway through I found the science and studies given so intriguing I was hooked.

cloudwatcher's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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so thorough and well-written. some really great stories and quotes; my favorite is "healing, in a sense, is about unlearning the notion that we need to protect ourselves from our own pain. in this way, compassion is a gateway to another essential quality: courage."

steph_13's review against another edition

4.25

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced