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Gabor Mat's internationally bestselling books have changed the way we look at addiction and have been integral in shifting the conversations around ADHD, stress, disease, embodied trauma, and parenting. Now, in this revolutionary book, he eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their health care systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. So what is really "normal" when it comes to health?

For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today's culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance. In The Myth of Normal, co-written with his son Daniel, Mat brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society, and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. The result is Mat's most ambitious and urgent book yet.

Over four decades of clinical experience, Mat has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of \"normal\" as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today's culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance. Now Mat brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society--and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Cowritten with his son Daniel, The Myth Of Normal is Mat's most ambitious and urgent book yet.

Author: Gabor Mat

Publisher: Avery Publishing Group

Published: 09/13/2022

Pages: 576

Binding Type: Hardcover

Weight: 1.80lbs

Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.90d

ISBN: 9780593083888

Review Citation(s):

Publishers Weekly 07/04/2022

Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2022

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This suggests that our culture is toxic and that we have become accustomed to so much of what plagues us. This book's title refers to normal in a more insidious way. David Foster Wallace's parable of two fish crossing aquatic paths illustrates the trouble with normality. He argues that the lives and deaths of individual human beings are intimately bound up with the aspects of modern society that are hardest to see and talk about; phenomena that are both too vast and too near to be appreciated. The book's central contention is that those features of daily life that appear to us now as normal are the ones crying out for our scrutiny.

Well, so let's begin with what children's needs are and these are not arbitrary, they're not invented. They are really what evolution has ingrained in us. Now, every creature has certain needs. You might say every creature has certain expectations. In fact you might say even more deeply every creature is an expectation. A fish is an expectation for water and for a certain salinity in that water and a certain nutrients. It's not that the little fish is hatched on the egg expecting that it is very resistance expects all that and what those expectations are like. Our lungs don't expect oxygen. Our lungs are an expectation for oxygen. If it wasn't for oxygen, our lungs wouldn't have developed. So when I talk about childhoods, children's needs I'm talking about what evolution has ingrained in us. So what are those needs? Unconditionally accepting safe, secure attachment relationship with nurturing adults. Not negotiable. Not negotiable in the sense that we can survive without it but we can't thrive without it. That's the first one. The second one is really essential is that within that relationship, within an attachment relationship the child should not have to work to make their relationship work. In other words, and this is outlined in the myth of normal so that the child should have rest in that relationship. There's nothing the child should be able to do to break their relationship with the parent and there's nothing the child should have to do to rebuild it. That work is 100% on the parent and on the parenting environment, I should say.

Send me an email and I'm happy to put you in touch with him. Thank you. Yeah. And then my book on addiction is called "In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction." There's a million of my talks on YouTube. There's nothing to sign up for. You just put my name into YouTube and you're going to find any number of talks on child development, addiction, health, mind, body unity. But there's also my website, Dr.gabormate.com, where you can sign up if you want them to be on my mailing list, where all the resources on my books and so on events are listed. So there's also a film you can find online called "The Wisdom of Trauma", which was published a year and a half ago, and it's been seen by about 10 million people internationally. You can make a donation to the filmmakers if you want to fund their next project, but you don't need to. You can put in zero, $0. You still get to watch the film. It's called The Wisdom of Trauma. You can find it online. And finally, there's an organization called wholehearted.org that has some of my programs for fairly inexpensive purchase on trauma and addiction. They're really good programs. It's hard to avoid me, is what I'm saying. Google my name and find it. 006ab0faaa