In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertens...
In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really “normal” when it comes to health?
Over four decades of clinical experience, Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of “normal” as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today’s culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance. Now Maté brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society—and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Cowritten with his son Daniel, The Myth Of Normal is Maté’s most ambitious and urgent book yet.
A renowned speaker and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress, and childhood development. Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, ...
A renowned speaker and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress, and childhood development. Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, and Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It, and has coauthored Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. His works have been published internationally in nearly thirty languages.
Daniel Maté is an acclaimed composer-lyricist who has received the Edward Kleban Prize for Lyrics, ASCAP’s Cole Porter Award, and a Jonathan Larson Foundation Grant. His musicals include The Longing and the Short of It, Hansel & Gretl & Heidi & Günter, Middle School Mysteries, and a forthcoming adaptation of the Russell Banks novel The Sweet Hereafter. He also runs a popular “mental chiropractic” service called Take A Walk With Daniel.
Curtis's words reminded me of what I often heard from my hypermarginalized Downtown Eastside (DTES) patients. "What does the heroin do for you?" I once asked a patient just admitted to Onsite, the detox venue above Insite - then North America's only supervised injection site, where I was staff physician. In his late thirties, with weightlifter arms, a shaved head, and a large brass ring piercing his right earlobe, this fierce-looking man looked right at me and said, “Doc, I don't know how to tell you this, exactly. It's like when you're three years old, sick, shivering with fever, and your mother puts you on her lap, wraps you in a warm blanket, and gives you warm chicken soup - that's what heroin feels like." His fellow DTES resident, the poet Bud Osborn, also spoke of the soothing thaw h... (查看原文)
Lena Dunham's tranquilizer dependence provided the temporary illusion of normalcy - an illusion reinforced by the fact that, in our society, her drugs of choice are often acquired via “legitimate" means - a doctor's prescribing pad. “Pharmaceuticals hold this magical promise of making you function normally, or better than normally," she says. “Alcohol, you smell it on someone; crack... you end up under a bridge. Klonopin, you can go for a pretty long time thinking, 'Wow, I found the cure to not being able to function in the way that I think people should be able to function in the world.' " (查看原文)
The physiology of the brain is a manifestation and a product of life in motion and in context. It is known beyond controversy that the greater the degree of childhood adversity, the higher the risk of mental disturbances, including psychosis. One study foun...
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0 有用 ◽Deeeee 2025-02-08 13:38:42 浙江
比较浅，信息很拼盘，没太多洞见
17 有用 懷瑾涉川 2023-12-28 20:41:53 英国
从很多的领域来讲一个很大的大局观， 从心理， 临床， 社会，哲学，历史，等各个角度分析了 为什么说当下社会系统， 普世价值观， 父权社会下对女性及男性的期待与塑造方式等 是对人类作为物种本身生存来说非常toxic的culture。 用了很多心理及物理临床研究和数据证明了 创伤与物理身体健康的紧密联系。 如童年创伤，与ADHA，抑郁症，双相情感障碍，自体免疫系统疾病 （类风湿，狼疮，硬皮病，纤维肌痛... 从很多的领域来讲一个很大的大局观， 从心理， 临床， 社会，哲学，历史，等各个角度分析了 为什么说当下社会系统， 普世价值观， 父权社会下对女性及男性的期待与塑造方式等 是对人类作为物种本身生存来说非常toxic的culture。 用了很多心理及物理临床研究和数据证明了 创伤与物理身体健康的紧密联系。 如童年创伤，与ADHA，抑郁症，双相情感障碍，自体免疫系统疾病 （类风湿，狼疮，硬皮病，纤维肌痛 等） 等 之间的联系。 还有由于种族歧视社会性创伤， 女性在父权社会下对真实情绪和自我压抑所导致的创伤， 还有当下社会系统本身对环境还有人类物理&心理健康的循环式危害。 真的希望越多的人能读到这本书越好。 可以配合着「唤醒老虎」， 「身体从未忘记」 来读。 (展开)
3 有用 califlo 2022-09-25 00:31:30 美国
我觉得这本书的意图在于提升公众对于“身心健康受大环境直接影响”这个观点的重视，并不在于presenting evidence. Claims比较主观，范围广，很多部分对我来说没什么帮助。
3 有用 桔梗 2024-09-03 14:25:25 上海
涵盖面极广，讲述创伤的形成与内外因素相互作用的关系。更多侧重于外部因素。国外的理论已经进步到外界环境和文化如何帮助个体重塑身心健康了，而国内还在pua/npd这几个词上绕来绕去，只会贴标签，对深层的成因毫无帮助。
2 有用 無患子 2024-09-29 14:24:12 加拿大
[聽書] 臨床經驗勝於一切，Gabor算是提供了對創傷的普世定義：創傷壓抑自我，這個社會的現有機制和信念更看重提供效益的team player而不有利於實現自我。例子太多了，護士們都知道得乳腺癌的女人必是那種老好人。