The Myth of Normal. Illness, health & healing in a toxic culture
by Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté
It can be daunting to start a hefty book like this one, but the authors’ style is friendly and easy to read. Father and son Gabor and Daniel Maté talk about unwellness in the form of physical and mental illness, as well as social problems and relationship difficulties, in the context of our modern Western world. The central theme is that we have lost our connection with our natural intuition and healing abilities, through relentlessly trying to fit in. So many people have suffered either large-scale trauma or ‘small-t trauma’ from unnatural childrearing practices, that unhealthy behaviour is considered ‘normal’. The answer lies in reclaiming our natural wisdom, addressing our own faulty thinking and connecting to ourselves, one another and to nature.
