When the Body Says No

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Gabor Maté, MD

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom 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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Author

Gabor Maté, MD

Pages

320

Publisher

Knopf Canada

Published Date

2011-02-11

ISBN

030737470X 9780307374707

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"Overall, this was a decent book. An easy read with many abbreviated case histories regarding people with chronic and fatal illnesses. While the anecdotes are backed up by more scientific studies and I very much respect Gabor Mate's work I have 2 criticisms. 1. It almost seems like he read Selye's works on stress and became enamoured without viewing the work critically (possibly even missing some of what Selye said later in life). I also disagree with the hypothesis that it is unidentified/ unconscious background stress that is the real culprit in these cases and he nearly identifies that and comes close to noticing other trends related to the cases but doesn't quite make the leap. Still very much worth the read."