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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
2.5 stars
It's like 3 sentences on a scientific research and 50 pages about how some spiritual path can cure cancer. I agree that psychological trauma causes illnesses, but environment is not the only reason bruh. Added one star because of a women support and saying that stalin was some motherfucker
It's like 3 sentences on a scientific research and 50 pages about how some spiritual path can cure cancer. I agree that psychological trauma causes illnesses, but environment is not the only reason bruh. Added one star because of a women support and saying that stalin was some motherfucker
I think this book is well written with well balanced rational views on the current state of us all living traumatised and sick in a toxic culture. It examines the mind-body connection that is still mostly overlooked in classic medicine, while proof keeps emerging of its strength and importance. This book was a delight to listen to and I have a feeling that Daniel was the one who made the biggest contribution in shaping it so. While Gabor does give some rough guidelines in how to heal in this world as it is, I was a bit disappointed to learn that the path towards healing doesn't have clearly paved steps. However, since this book stands out among the educational books I've read lately in how much information it delivers without too much excessive fillers, I'd say it deserves five stars after all.
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.5, maybe even 4.75.
I would love love love a workbook that accompanies this.
Dr. Mate gives a vast, compassionate, and highly nuanced account on chronic illness, mental illness, trauma, and its social context. As someone with mental health issues and chronic pain, this book has been a really enlightening read, though there are places where I remain somewhat skeptical.
It's also very refreshing to read a holistic account of chronic health problems that not only unites the mental and physical, but the social and political.
But I wish an editor would have told him to please, for the love of god, hold off on quoting song lyrics so freakin much.
I would love love love a workbook that accompanies this.
Dr. Mate gives a vast, compassionate, and highly nuanced account on chronic illness, mental illness, trauma, and its social context. As someone with mental health issues and chronic pain, this book has been a really enlightening read, though there are places where I remain somewhat skeptical.
It's also very refreshing to read a holistic account of chronic health problems that not only unites the mental and physical, but the social and political.
But I wish an editor would have told him to please, for the love of god, hold off on quoting song lyrics so freakin much.
Audible deep sigh. This book had the potential to be good but it wasn't. For a book about trauma, illness and toxic culture...it just felt like a toxic perpetuation of all the ways everything is bad.
That said, some points were interesting. More parts, though, did not and were too rambly and incoherent to resonate with me.
I'd say skip this one.
That said, some points were interesting. More parts, though, did not and were too rambly and incoherent to resonate with me.
I'd say skip this one.
I started reading this physical book, but it did become too much for me, so I switched to the audiobook, which was a great move for me! This book touches on so many intricate topics and engages the reader to look at themselves and the society they live in. I hope ALL people truly hear Gabor Maté especially health care professionals, those in politics, and those who have/had struggled with mental health.
I am just not ready yet for this type of a book. It gave me anxiety so I gave up. I might return to it one day, when I am further down the road of my healing.
Gabor Maté has a valuable voice regarding trauma, illness, and healing. Maté's writing is directly linked to his own experiences personally and linked to those he has worked with in the DTES and other locations. Recognizing that trauma is not necessarily what happens to us but what happens inside of us as a result of what happens to us is important to understand and Maté does an excellent job of articulating this. He does so in a way that liberates the person who has experienced trauma. The book also contains practical tips for working towards healing while recognizing that that journey is going to look different for everyone. Maté also communicates towards the end a hopeful vision forward that is optimistic yet is a long and difficult road ahead. What I appreciated from Maté is the recognition of what the individual part to play in healing is while recognizing the part that the toxic culture, which Maté defines as "the entire context of social structures, belief systems, assumptions, and values that surround us", plays in traumatizing or retraumatizing people. Additionally, I valued Maté's recognition that as humans we will stumble through the healing process because of the simple fact that we are human. I find that because of this recognition, Maté does not slip into the impossible expectations that the self-help movement can place on people but instead has realistic expectations of the human journey and the beauty that is found in all of it.
Not a lot new here but from a somatic psychotherapy perspective, but Maté does a really lovely job of showing how our culture, including the medical model, contributes to our alienation and physical and mental illness.