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The empowering book exploring the link between trauma, illness, and modern life – and how to heal your health. From the acclaimed physician and bestselling author of When The Body Says No.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD

We tend to believe that normality equals health. But in today’s modern world, rising rates of anxiety, depression, addiction and chronic illness suggest otherwise. So, what is normal – and is it making us unwell?

In this life-affirming book, Dr Gabor Maté connects the dots between trauma, mental health, and physical illness, showing how our health is shaped by the pressures and expectations of modern life.

Drawing on decades of clinical experience, and real-life stories of people transforming their bodies and minds, Dr Gabor Maté offers a compassionate and hopeful path to healing, self-awareness and emotional wellbeing.

In The Myth of Normal, you’ll discover:

  • Why the illnesses of body and mind can natural responses to a toxic culture
  • How stress and emotional suppression affect the body
  • The science behind the mind-body connection in healing and wellbeing
  • A hopeful path towards resilience, balance and authenticity


Compassionate and urgent, this empowering bestseller shows how true health is possible when we are willing to embrace our authentic selves.

‘Life-changing’ Mel Robbins, bestselling author of The Let Them Theory

‘Riveting and beautifully written’ Bessel van der Kolk, bestselling author of The Body Keeps Score

‘Genuinely changed my life’ Steven Bartlett, bestselling author of Diary of A CEO

‘Intellectual and compassionate…essential reading’ Tara Westover, bestselling author of Educated

‘A wise, profound and healing work’ Johann Hari, bestselling author of Stolen Focus

‘Brilliant, compelling and groundbreaking book’ Tara Brach, bestselling author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion

‘An essential compass during disorienting times.’ Esther Perel, psychotherapist, bestselling author and host of Where Should We Begin

© Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Critics Review

Gabor Mate 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 ... This riveting and beautifully written tale has profound implications for all of our lives, including the practice of medicine and mental health
Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score
Wise, sophisticated, rigorous and creative: an intellectual and compassionate investigation of who we are and who we may become
Tara Westover, author of Educated
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, author of Stolen Focus
An astonishing achievement, epic in scope and yet profoundly down-to-earth and practical. I will read this book again and again
V (formerly Eve Ensler), author of The Vagina Monologues
Brilliant, compelling and groundbreaking. Gabor 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 Compassion
A book in which readers can seek refuge and solace during moments of profound personal and social crisis
Esther Perel, psychotherapist and author of Mating in Captivity
Gabor Maté's connections - between the intensely personal and the global, the spiritual and the medical, the psychological and the political - are bold, wise and deeply moral. He is a healer to be cherished
Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine
A compelling book that 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
Gripping ... a powerful call for change in how we live with, love, understand, treat, and think about each other
Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explaining Everything To Me
Dr Maté has completely transformed how the world sees, talks about and understands trauma. And he has absolutely had that impact on me and it's been life-changing.
Mel Robbins, #1 global bestselling author of The Let Them Theory

User Reviews

Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
Author Dr Gabor Maté, with Daniel Maté
Narrator Daniel Maté
Duration 18 hours and 13 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473596993
Format Audiobook
Publisher Ebury Publishing
Genre Coping with illness and specific health conditions, Coping with mental health issues, Popular medicine and health, Popular psychology
Availability AU, GB, IE
Rating
5.0 (3 reviews)
Narration
5.0 (3 reviews)

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