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A review by stevia333k
When The Body Says No by Gabor Maté, Gabor Maté
Did not finish book. Stopped at 4%.
I was listening to the audiobook which came out in 2021, but basically even though I'm interested from the autoimmune info, it felt meandering to focus on the establishment. Turns out the book is actually from 2003. So yeah it's outdated.
Like I'm also reading a book from about 2016-2023 that basically accepts that the brain is just 1 body part, and that for some things some systems are dominant & for some other things it is not. This book in its attempt to bring back the brain is instead trying to argue that the placebo effect treatment is what we should be looking for, which as a person with psychiatric disabilities that require medication & having seen how psychiatric medications helped get 80% of captives out of psychiatric wards, this feels like some conservative/fascist Malcolm Gladwell shit.
Or, this book feels like in 2003 terms, someone accepting same-sex marriage, but then still asking who's the wife & who's the husband.
Like I'm also reading a book from about 2016-2023 that basically accepts that the brain is just 1 body part, and that for some things some systems are dominant & for some other things it is not. This book in its attempt to bring back the brain is instead trying to argue that the placebo effect treatment is what we should be looking for, which as a person with psychiatric disabilities that require medication & having seen how psychiatric medications helped get 80% of captives out of psychiatric wards, this feels like some conservative/fascist Malcolm Gladwell shit.
Or, this book feels like in 2003 terms, someone accepting same-sex marriage, but then still asking who's the wife & who's the husband.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Death of parent