When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
From renowned mental health expert and speaker Dr. Gabor Maté, this acclaimed, bestselling guide provides insight into the mind-body link between illness and health, and the critical role that stress and our emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.
In this accessible and groundbreaking book—filled with the moving stories of real people—medical doctor and bestselling author Gabor Maté shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and many others.
An international bestseller translated into over thirty languages, When the Body Says No promotes learning and healing, providing transformative insights into how illlness can be the body's way of saying no to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge. With great compassion and erudition, Dr. Maté demystifies medical science and empowers us all to be our own health advocates.
From renowned mental health expert and speaker Dr. Gabor Maté, this acclaimed, bestselling guide provides insight into the mind-body link between illness and health, and the critical role that stress and our emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.
In this accessible and groundbreaking book—filled with the moving stories of real people—medical doctor and bestselling author Gabor Maté shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and many others.
An international bestseller translated into over thirty languages, When the Body Says No promotes learning and healing, providing transformative insights into how illlness can be the body's way of saying no to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge. With great compassion and erudition, Dr. Maté demystifies medical science and empowers us all to be our own health advocates.
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The premise: Cancer and auto immune diseases are more likely to develop in individuals with certain personality features— learned patterns of repression of anger and failure to develop genuine autonomy as an adult—because they are more likely to experience stress.
While I am convinced there is much value in exploring the stress disease connection, and there may indeed be something of credit in his particular thesis, the book relies too heavily on small studies and especially anecdotes from his medical practice. And somehow he always seems to find what he’s looking for in patients’ stories. Overall, it became very redundant and never convincing.
While I am convinced there is much value in exploring the stress disease connection, and there may indeed be something of credit in his particular thesis, the book relies too heavily on small studies and especially anecdotes from his medical practice. And somehow he always seems to find what he’s looking for in patients’ stories. Overall, it became very redundant and never convincing.
Most of this book and its central message was really powerful for me. The link between our emotions and behaviours and our health. Made me consider what emotions we ignore, suppress or sacrifice and the impact that can have on you later in life.
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