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"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?"--

 

Table of Contents

Introduction Why Normal Is a Myth (And Why That Matters) 1 (14)

Part I Our Interconnected Nature

Chapter 1 The Last Place You Want to Be: Facets of Trauma

15 (22)

Chapter 2 Living in an Immaterial World: Emotions, Health, and the Body-Mind Unity

37 (15)

Chapter 3 You Rattle My Brain: Our Highly Interpersonal Biology

52 (7)

Chapter 4 Everything I'm Surrounded By: Dispatches from the New Science

59 (9)

Chapter 5 Mutiny on the Body: The Mystery of the Rebellious Immune System

68 (17)

Chapter 6 It Ain't a Thing: Disease as Process

85 (11)

Chapter 7 A Traumatic Tension: Attachment vs. Authenticity

96 (19)

Part II The Distortion of Human Development

Chapter 8 Who Are We Really? Human Nature, Human Needs

115 (8)

Chapter 9 A Sturdy or Fragile Foundation: Children's Irreducible Needs

123 (13)

Chapter 10 Trouble at the Threshold: Before We Come into the World

136 (10)

Chapter 11 What Choice Do I Have? Childbirth in a Medicalized Culture

146 (14)

Chapter 12 Horticulture on the Moon: Parenting, Undermined

160 (19)

Chapter 13 Forcing the Brain in the Wrong Direction: The Sabotage of Childhood

179 (18)

Chapter 14 A Template for Distress: How Culture Builds Our Character

197 (14)

Part III Rethinking Abnormal: Afflictions as Adaptations

Chapter 15 Just Not to Be You: Debunking the Myths About Addiction

211 (13)

Chapter 16 Show of Hands: A New View of Addiction

224 (11)

Chapter 17 An Inaccurate Map of Our Pain: What We Get Wrong About Mental Illness

235 (18)

Chapter 18 The Mind Can Do Some Amazing Things: From Madness to Meaning

253 (22)

Part IV The Toxicities of Our Culture

Chapter 19 From Society to Cell: Uncertainty, Conflict, and Loss of Control

275 (11)

Chapter 20 Robbing the Human Spirit: Disconnection and Its Discontents

286 (11)

Chapter 21 They Just Don't Care If It Kills You: Sociopathy as Strategy

297 (14)

Chapter 22 The Assaulted Sense of Self: How Race and Class Get Under the Skiri

311 (18)

Chapter 23 Society's Shock Absorbers: Why Women Have It Worse

329 (14)

Chapter 24 We Feel Their Pain: Our Trauma Infused Politics

343 (18)

Part V Pathways to Wholeness

Chapter 25 Mind in the Lead: The Possibility of Healing

361 (13)

Chapter 26 Four A's and Five Compassions: Some Healing Principles

374 (16)

Chapter 27 A Dreadful Gift: Disease as Teacher

390 (18)

Chapter 28 Before the Body Says No: First Steps on the Return to Self

408 (14)

Chapter 29 Seeing Is Disbelieving: Undoing Self Limiting Beliefs

422 (8)

Chapter 30 Foes to Friends: Working with the Obstacles to Healing

430 (17)

Chapter 31 Jesus in the Tipi: Psychedelics and Healing

447 (16)

Chapter 32 My Life as a Genuine Thing: Touching Spirit

463 (18)

Chapter 33 Unmaking a Myth: Visioning a Saner Society

481 (18)

Acknowledgments 499 (4)

Notes 503 (43)

Index 546