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A review by noirla1939
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté
4.0
This has been the longest audiobook I've listened to this year so far. 18 hours of an array of various examples and topics and anecdotes Gabor Mate writes about in his pursuit of dispelling the myth of normal. It all just blended in together for me and it was tough to follow at times when the author would jump from one subject to another.
I think the gist of this book ponders on the idea that we're all damaged in some way or form. We all have qualities that might be deemed "defective," but such qualities are not signs of us being inferior or less than, but rather that we are as human as can be.
Mate does make a bold controversial statement that some of the trauma that we have stems from childhood and while it is an interesting theory, I don't know if it can hold water in the general sense. It's interesting listening to him explain that, though.
Listening to "The Myth of Normal" was decent enough. I'll probably forget most of it since I listened to it while doing other things. But I hope to revisit this book in print form.
I think the gist of this book ponders on the idea that we're all damaged in some way or form. We all have qualities that might be deemed "defective," but such qualities are not signs of us being inferior or less than, but rather that we are as human as can be.
Mate does make a bold controversial statement that some of the trauma that we have stems from childhood and while it is an interesting theory, I don't know if it can hold water in the general sense. It's interesting listening to him explain that, though.
Listening to "The Myth of Normal" was decent enough. I'll probably forget most of it since I listened to it while doing other things. But I hope to revisit this book in print form.