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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Blame your mother. ( ) This book gives the best diagnosis of the state of our society through the prism of mental health. It is by no means an easy read (took me months to get through it, chapter by chapter) and doesn't provide an easy way out, so it's not a prophetic answer to all our troubles. But if you want to have a better understanding of why things are so bad and why a holistic, systemic change is the only way out - this is a book for you. What I love about Gabor Maté is his ability to show true compassion. I don't think I have ever read an author who is as compassionate to people who are dealing with trauma (and we all are, whether we are aware of it or not). The trauma he describes is not only "the bad things that happen to us", but all of that withheld from us that should be a part of our human experience, even if we are seemingly happy. Maté is very open in identifying the toxic dynamic of current late-capitalist societal trends as being the core issue in the mental health crisis. While these ideas are not new if these topics are something you are interested in and Maté has written about them before, this is by far the most comprehensive work on this subject with an incredible bibliography. It is scientific, but also philosophical and provocative. I don't agree with everything Maté claims in this book, but it is good to be challenged and reflect. This is a seminal work that people should read and talk about. This book is mostly about trauma, but the brilliant author discusses and comments on various other subjects. I will be reading his other books if I can get hold of them. Sadly, I had to return the book to the library as soon as I had read it, so did not have time to write a detailed review. His main point seems to be that, although we generally regard a trauma as resulting from a dramatic event, in actual fact we can get trauma from all sorts of seemingly minor events both in childhood and later. In the author’s own case, he tells us that in 1945 when he was 14 months old, his mother felt obliged to send him away to his aunt’s in order for him to live in relatively safe circumstances. Dr Maté explains how losing his mother at such an early age resulted in such a trauma that it affected him for the rest of his life in such a way that he reacted unwarrantedly strongly to minor events which triggered his trauma. I would highly recommend the book to every thinking person. A somewhat disappointing book from the author of the quite revelatory and impressive In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction. In this book, Dr. Maté, with help from his son, set out to chart the ways in which trauma and “inauthentic” lifestyles trap us in illness and depression, and keep us a state of spiritual paralysis, unable to make positive personal and societal improvements. They set out to prove a) That we live in “toxic” culture, and b) We generally fail to take the basic steps needed to make ourselves deeply happy and fulfilled. Dr. Maté, I’ll give him credit, is a physician. And I get why he is obsessed with healing us. And I kind of agree with him, things could be better on many levels. But this book is so interlaced with personal anecdotes that I feel it rises neither to the level of the expertise nor clear-eyed biography to be taken entirely seriously. It’s a self-help book, and not a very original one. In Close Encounters the personal anecdotes explicate the author’s personal revelations about addiction, his own included. In this book there is a lot of name-dropping and cute but ultimately unsatisfying literary allusions. A good part of the book seems to about medical pathology, and shortcomings in the practice of medicine. But what the title of the book “The Myth of Normal” is actually about, well, I’m not really sure. Is it that medicine tells us we’re normal when we’re really not? Or the other way around? In his earlier volumes Dr. Maté made a good argument that what looks like maladaptive behaviours such as addiction make perfect sense when viewed through the prism of childhood trauma. This book attempts to generalize that insight across many aspects of society and life. But it’s a very difficult argument to make, in my opinion, if you don’t have a lot of hard data to back it up. And you need either a lot of first hand data or a very persuasive meta-study arguing the point. This book flits from anecdote to anecdote. It is entirely possible that this book was really not meant for me, for a general reader. Its climax is a kind of cumbaya moment when Dr. Maté recounts a shamanic experience to let go of his own ghosts. He generalizes upon therapeutic methods to solve societal problems and lost me on the path to Nirvana. And on one too many metaphors for society’s ills. 4 stars: Very good Mate' was born in 1944 in Hungary, and his experience with extreme trauma and attachment issues informed his experience. Specifically, this book is a critique of how society breeds disease and how can we move towards healing. "Western" medicine ignores cultural stresses, is steeped in racism, sexism and ageism. Other systems look more at the whole individual and their place in the larger "village" as well as "mind body connection" for a path to healing. His theories are not without controversty but this was a compelling read. Description from amazon: "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. " nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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