The Legend of Normal

When it comes to health, what do we call “normal”? Or normalize? Is normalization something we coined so that something that was previously abnormal wouldn’t catch on our radar? In this case, normal means “there’s nothing to see here, all systems are functioning healthily, no need for further investigation.”
However, this is not the case at all for Dr. Gabor Maté, one of the first names that comes to mind when it comes to modern psychotherapy.
Maté says that the prevailing perception of “normal” is wrong, and that this perception completely ignores trauma and stress, and the effects of modern life on our bodies. Despite all its expertise and technological advances, Western medicine frequently fails to address the whole person; it ignores how today’s culture stresses the body, disregards emotional balance, and puts all the blame on the immune system.
In this book, written with his son Daniel Maté, Gabor Maté says; It traces the physiological effects of unmet developmental needs, stress, and trauma, debunks myths about what makes us sick, and connects the dots between individual ills and society's diminishing well-being,
creating a compassionate guide to health and healing.