mikabirb 's review for:

Vom Mythos des Normalen: Wie unsere Gesellschaft uns krank macht und traumatisiert – Neue Wege zur Heilung. New York Times Bestseller by Gabor Maté

4.75

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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If you're really interested in how trauma and the body are connected and how a lot of stress, trauma and repressed emotions show up as physical and chronic illnesses, this is a very good book on the topic. It backed up everything I already sort of knew about the topic with lots and lots of studies on different types of illnesses and their connection to trauma and stress. Then it explored everything that goes wrong in our society from conception throughout childhood through adulthood that facilitates these effects on the body and how it has become so normalized but isn't actually what should be normal. The book also offers some ideas on healing in the last part and I took some very useful things away from it. Some bits were a bit weird to me, like the entire chapter on traumatized politicians. I didn't see the point of that. But otherwise this was a very good and useful read