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

Did not finish book. Stopped at 23%.

DNF around 25% because the author has already made his point...about a hundred times. Very repetitive, and an approach to chronic illness that I think is reasonably widely acknowledged (perhaps just in my experience) but with an undercurrent (again, could be my perception) of "if you think positive and don't stress so much your cancer/immune disorder/disease will just heal and disappear" which I didn't love at all.

There felt like a fair bit of 'over-reaching' and cherry-picking of cases to fit too, and whilst I generally agree with his findings/opinions, I didn't love the way it was delivered and couldn't help thinking of the very true phrase of "correlation does not imply causation."