From our most trusted authority on stress, trauma and mental well-being comes a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a critique of how our society breeds disease and a pathway to health and healing.
Gabor Maté's internationally bestselling books have changed the way we look at addiction and have shifted the conversations around ADHD, stress, disease, embodied trauma and parenting. In this revolutionary, bestselling book, he dissects how chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise in Western countries.
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. In The Myth of Normal, co-written with his son Daniel, 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. The result is Maté's most ambitious and urgent book yet.
