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

If you have ever read or listened to Gabor Maté speak, then you know what this book is about. This is an elaborated version of Maté’s arguments about why and how trauma affects the individual and the society and how society interplays with trauma. Maté draws examples from studies done and from his own life, bringing the subject alive and relevant.

The book is divided with the understanding what trauma is, the personal and the illnesses it brings forth, the traumatic society and how it affects...