The public speaker and bestselling author Dr. Gabor Maté discusses the new book (written with Daniel Maté) The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture (Avery, 2022), with Joseph Planta.

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture by Dr. Gabor Maté, MD with Daniel Maté (Avery, 2022). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: The Myth of Normal

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

Dr. Gabor Maté joins me again. He’s just published a new book The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture. It looks at the causes of illness, and how our society and culture breeds disease. We seem obsessed with health, yet our collective health isn’t great. We’re concerned about living better, healthier lives, but they’re really not that ideal; 70% of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, while one in five Canadians has high blood pressure. I’ll ask Dr. Maté about his work as a physician and how he approached treating a physical illness presented by a patient. Very often he looked at the larger story of the patient. We talk about trauma, namely his own. It’s a big book, his magnum opus as it were. Dr. Gabor Maté is the noted public speaker and bestselling author. He has written many books including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Dr. Maté first appeared on this program in 2018, on the tenth anniversary of that book’s publication. This new book is from Avery, and written with his son, Daniel Maté, who also has been on the program before, and who I hope to have on shortly. The website for more is at www.drgabormate.com. We taped this interview nearly three weeks ago.

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