The Myth of Normal Gabor Mate with Daniel Mate

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By Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté

Western countries spend enormous sums on healthcare while chronic illness and mental illness keep rising. Maté’s question is what exactly is being treated as normal.

Drawing on four decades of clinical practice, he argues that a culture which routinely produces stress, isolation and suppressed emotion will produce illness, and that individual diagnosis keeps the focus off that. Part diagnosis of a society, part a path towards healing.

First published 2022