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 New York Times
bestseller The Myth of Normal, 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
Minds: 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 a Brooklyn-based composer-lyricist who has
received the Kleban Prize, Cole Porter Award, and Jonathan Larson
Grant. His musicals include The Trouble With Doug and The Longing
and the Short of It. Other shows in development include Hansel &
Gretl & Heidi & Günter, Middle School Mysteries, and an adaptation
of the Russell Banks novel The Sweet Hereafter. He is the host of
the YouTube program Lyrics To Go and runs a "mental chiropractic"
service called Walk With Daniel.
"In The Myth of Normal, Gabor Maté takes us on an epic journey
of discovery about how our emotional well-being, and our social
connectivity (in short: how we live), is intimately intertwined
with health, disease and addictions. Chronic mental and physical
illnesses may not be separate and distinct diseases, but intricate,
multilayered processes that reflect (mal)adaptations to the
cultural context that we live in, and the values we live by. This
riveting and beautifully written tale has profound implications for
all of our lives, including the practice of medicine and mental
health."--Bessel A. van der Kolk MD, President, Trauma Research
Foundation, Professor of psychiatry, Boston University School
of Medicine, #1 New York Times Bestseller: The Body Keeps the
Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma
"Gabor and Daniel Maté have created a magnificent resource for us
all in The Myth of Normal, a powerful, in-depth, science-packed,
inspiring story-filled opus that helps us see how stress within our
culture shapes our well-being in all its facets. By
carefully reviewing medical and mental health through a
wide lens of inquiry, they challenge
simplistic views of disease and disorder to offer instead a
wider perspective on human flourishing that has direct implications
for how we live individually, at home, and as a larger human
family. A thorough and inspiring work of the
heart, this book urges us to question our assumptions and
think deeply about who we are and how we can live more fully and
freely, harnessing the power of the mind to bring healing and
wholeness into our shared lives on Earth."--Daniel J. Siegel, MD,
Clinical Professor, UCLA School of Medicine, Executive Director,
Mindsight Institute, New York Times bestselling author of
IntraConnected: MWe (Me plus We) as the integration of self,
identity, and belonging
"Wise, sophisticated, rigorous and creative: an intellectual
and compassionate investigation of who we are and who we may
become. Essential reading for anyone with a past and a
future."--Tara Westover, New York Times bestselling author,
Educated
"Gabor and Daniel Maté have delivered a book in which readers can
seek refuge and solace during moments of profound personal and
social crisis. The Myth of Normal is an essential compass during
disorienting times."-- Esther Perel, Psychotherapist, Author and
Host of Where Should We Begin
"Gabor Maté articulates bluntly, brilliantly and passionately what
all of us instinctively know but none of us really want to face:
the entire social construct of the world we’re living in is deeply
flawed, with toxicities on every level. Yet though
the book makes clear what’s so terribly wrong, it also points to
how we can make it right. Maté is a guide through the
dangerous forest of our minds and our society, not letting us
ignore the darkness but ultimately showing us the light. The Myth
of Normal is exactly what we need."--Marianne Williamson, New York
Times bestselling author, A Return To Love
"The Myth of Normal is an astonishing achievement, epic in scope
and yet profoundly down to earth and practical. I believe it
will open the gates to a new time where we come to understand that
our emotions, culture, bodies and spirits are not separate and
wellness can only come about if we treat the whole being. I will
read this book again and again."--V (formerly Eve Ensler), author
of The Vagina Monologues and The Apology
"The Myth of Normal may forever change the way you view your life
experiences, and how they can shape your biology. But more
importantly, Gabor Maté points us to a path of desperately needed
communal healing."--Elissa Epel, PhD, Professor, UCSF, co-author of
best seller The Telomere Effect
"In this brilliant, compelling and groundbreaking book, Gabor Maté
unveils the societal trance that has blinded us to the death-grip
of pervasive trauma in our world. He shows that this is not
our 'personal' trauma. It is sourced in a culture that undermines
meeting our basic needs for connection, authenticity and meaning.
Drawing on his decades of pioneering clinical work, fascinating
contemporary science and contemplative wisdom, Maté offers us a way
to bring clear seeing and a greatness of heart to the crisis of our
times."--Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Radical
Compassion
"Gabor and Daniel Maté offer a powerful and surprising redemptive
path out of the toxic illusion of 'normalcy.' This remarkable and
revolutionary book will profoundly impact the wellbeing of
self, society, and our earth at a time when wisdom and compassion
are essential for our common survival."--Rev. Joan Jiko Halifax,
Abbot, Upaya Zen Center
"At a time so many of us are struggling physically and psychically,
Gabor Maté’s The Myth of Normal is a godsend, providing wisdom and
realistic hope. Maté is a revolutionary thinker and gifted
writer whose work has always inspired me. The Myth of Normal is no
exception. It’s no exaggeration to say that this groundbreaking
book can help us heal as individuals, families and a
society."--David Sheff, author of NYT #1 bestseller,
Beautiful Boy
"As if Gabor Maté hasn’t done enough already by
depathologizing addiction, autoimmune diseases, and ADHD; now, in
this magnum opus, he challenges us to expand our minds even
further. In The Myth of Normal, he asserts that those problems, and
the many other social ills that plague us, are not only related to
the traumas we suffered but are also symptoms of the toxic nature
of our materialistic, isolating, patriarchal, and racist culture.
What’s remarkable about this beautifully written book is not just
that he makes that bold contention, but how well he backs it up
with an amazing amount of scientific research, compelling stories
of his patients, and moving disclosures from his own life. Our
culture is, indeed, very sick and I don’t know of a better
diagnostician of and physician for it than Gabor Mate. This book
contains a prescription that, if we have the courage to follow,
will heal us all."--Richard Schwartz, PhD creator of the Internal
Family Systems Model
"The Myth of Normal is a book literally everyone will be enriched
by - a wise, profound and healing work that is the culmination of
Dr, Maté's many years of deep and painfully accumulated
wisdom."--Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author of Stolen
Focus
"This gripping book builds upon two key truths for our time, that
everything is connected, including psychic wounds and physical
illnesses, and that these are not anomalies but ordinary, even
epidemic, in the society we’ve built. The Myth of Normal is a
powerful call for change in how we live with, love, understand,
treat, and think about each other, by someone ideally situated to
map the terrain and to give us some valuable tools with which to
navigate it."—Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to
Me
"In this wide-ranging and beautifully written book, Gabor Maté and
his co-writer son Daniel offer an acute diagnosis of what ails our
culture and a blueprint for personal healing, while pointing the
way to what is required to create a more hospitable, human-friendly
world for ourselves and our children."--Dr. Shefali, New York Times
bestselling author and clinical psychologist
"Gabor Maté’s latest book is a guide to self-awareness, social
insight and healing that is deeply personal and utterly
transparent. It merits becoming this generation's The Road Less
Traveled. Written with fluid, crystalline prose, profound wisdom,
great humor and hard-won humility, in my two-word summation The
Myth of Normal is Fiercely Tender."--William M. Watson, S.J.,
D.Min., President & Founder, Sacred Story Institute
"The Myth of Normal is a detailed and wide-ranging look at
what we all need to know--but all too often fail to live into--when
it comes to human health, sanity, maturation, and happiness. It's
also a clear-eyed examination of the benefits, triumphs,
limitations, and blind spots of our health and mental health
care system."--Resmaa Menakem, bestselling author of My
Grandmother's Hands, The Quaking of America, and Monsters in
Love
"The Myth of Normal is a tour de force journey into the dissonant
experience of being human in our aberrant and toxic modern culture.
The journey is both heart-rending and exalted in its underlying
purpose—to heal the rift from our authentic selves and the
collective trauma that stifles our natural expression and
joy. If you are ready to do the brave and life-shaking work of
examining the truth of your life and the culture that we are
literally in the death grips of—this is your read."--Rachel Carlton
Abrams, MD, MHS, ABoIM
"The Myth of Normal presents a unique perspective in viewing
what we see as 'normal" and opens up a way to wake up to what is
real and authentic in our lives. Gabor and Daniel Maté have
written a compelling book which will challenge your views and
help lift the veil of illusion to what is truly happening in your
mind and in your body."--Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness
and Real Happiness
"With rigorous research and painstaking detail, this book
by esteemed physician Gabor Maté is a tour de force manifesto of
how trauma impacts not just our individual bodies and psyches but
our whole society. The Myth of Normal plants seeds for
revitalizing what we consider 'normal' and giving ourselves
permission to say no to what is making us unnecessarily
sick."--Lissa Rankin, MD, New York Times bestselling author or Mind
Over Medicine and Sacred Medicine
"This, Gabor Maté's magnum opus, is essential
reading for us all. A genius writer, he gives it to us
straight: From the mindbody to the body politic, we learn
how loss of authenticity takes its toll
psychologically, physically, spiritually, and
socially."--Julie Holland, MD, author, Good Chemistry: The Science
of Connection, From Soul to Psychedelics
"Every once in a rare while a book comes along creating a new
vision of the world, illuminating for us that which until now has
been invisible, yet as vital to our health and well-being as water
is to fish, oxygen is for our bodies, and love is for our souls.
This work is such a tour de force, a humbling and brilliantly
written exposition of what deeper healing requires."--Jeffrey D.
Rediger, MD, MDiv, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School,
Author, CURED: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your
Life.
"Gabor Maté is brilliant and passionate, tender and fierce, writing
with an urgent honesty. His analysis is comprehensive and
penetrating, combining deep scholarship, hard-earned clinical
wisdom, personal trauma, and practical suggestions. This is a
masterwork that reads like an intelligent thriller, highlighting
our challenges with dramatic clarity while showing the way to their
solutions. A must-have book for anyone interested in their own
mind, in how our world got so crazy, and in the better future we
can forge together."--Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of Resilient: How
to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness
"In The Myth of Normal, Gabor Maté exposes what happens when
society becomes the addict, and how can we heal as a society. This
is a book for our times--no, rather it is the book for our times.
An illumination to therapists and healers, it is much more than
that...Read and discover.”--Peter A Levine, author of Waking the
Tiger and In an Unspoken Voice
"A sweeping analysis of the relationship between illness,
trauma, and capitalism...Maté marshals an impressive amount of
research to outline an original and persuasive vision of health
focused on environmental influences and the interplay between the
mind and body."--Publishers Weekly
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