The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture Gabor Maté, MD, Daniel Maté

Table of contents :
Cover
Praise for The Myth of Normal
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Author’s Note
Contents
Introduction: Why Normal Is a Myth (And Why That Matters)
Part I: Our Interconnected Nature
Chapter 1: The Last Place You Want to Be: Facets of Trauma
Chapter 2: Living in an Immaterial World: Emotions, Health, and the Body-Mind Unity
Chapter 3: You Rattle My Brain: Our Highly Interpersonal Biology
Chapter 4: Everything I’m Surrounded By: Dispatches from the New Science
Chapter 5: Mutiny on the Body: The Mystery of the Rebellious Immune System
Chapter 6: It Ain’t a Thing: Disease as Process
Chapter 7: A Traumatic Tension: Attachment vs. Authenticity
Part II: The Distortion of Human Development
Chapter 8: Who Are We Really? Human Nature, Human Needs
Chapter 9: A Sturdy or Fragile Foundation: Children’s Irreducible Needs
Chapter 10: Trouble at the Threshold: Before We Come into the World
Chapter 11: What Choice Do I Have? Childbirth in a Medicalized Culture
Chapter 12: Horticulture on the Moon: Parenting, Undermined
Chapter 13: Forcing the Brain in the Wrong Direction: The Sabotage of Childhood
Chapter 14: A Template for Distress: How Culture Builds Our Character
Part III: Rethinking Abnormal: Afflictions as Adaptations
Chapter 15: Just Not to Be You: Debunking the Myths About Addiction
Chapter 16: Show of Hands: A New View of Addiction
Chapter 17: An Inaccurate Map of Our Pain: What We Get Wrong About Mental Illness
Chapter 18: The Mind Can Do Some Amazing Things: From Madness to Meaning
Part IV: The Toxicities of Our Culture
Chapter 19: From Society to Cell: Uncertainty, Conflict, and Loss of Control
Chapter 20: Robbing the Human Spirit: Disconnection and Its Discontents
Chapter 21: They Just Don’t Care If It Kills You: Sociopathy as Strategy
Chapter 22: The Assaulted Sense of Self: How Race and Class Get Under the Skin
Chapter 23: Society’s Shock Absorbers: Why Women Have It Worse
Chapter 24: We Feel Their Pain: Our Trauma-Infused Politics
Part V: Pathways to Wholeness
Chapter 25: Mind in the Lead: The Possibility of Healing
Chapter 26: Four A’s and Five Compassions: Some Healing Principles
Chapter 27: A Dreadful Gift: Disease as Teacher
Chapter 28: Before the Body Says No: First Steps on the Return to Self
Chapter 29: Seeing Is Disbelieving: Undoing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Chapter 30: Foes to Friends: Working with the Obstacles to Healing
Chapter 31: Jesus in the Tipi: Psychedelics and Healing
Chapter 32: My Life as a Genuine Thing: Touching Spirit
Chapter 33: Unmaking a Myth: Visioning a Saner Society
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Authors
Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index