The need to treat the whole person!
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 by Gabor Mate and his son Daniel, Mate brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of society, and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing.
Reference: Introduction to “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture”