The Myth of Normal

"This is suuuuch a fantastic book. As with anything, the reader is likely to find things that they connect with and other things they don’t, but his ability to look not only at the whole person but the CONTEXT of the person in this world we’re in along with anecdotes from his own life and his own unhelpful tendencies made an incredibly dense and heavy book a very approachable one. I will carry some of his gems with me for a long time."

"This is a much needed book in today's world where we disproportionately prioritize tangible and physical things both in our daily lives and also in science and medicine. This book grounds us into how the powerful dualism of mind+body rather than the separate artificial reductive categories of "body" and "mind" created by humans to make things simpler. This book also makes a strong case against governmental (and hence societal) subsidization of capitalism culture and how government has a much loftier goal than being a puppeteer of corporations. People, and doctors, should never forget that mindbody is intricately intertwined and any failure to take into account both of them simultaneously would always lead to a partial, if not misleading, picture and conclusion."

"It started out good, then got worse and worse with its anti medicine, pro psychogenic drug, and heal yourself from cancer theories. It has some valid points, but over all was unrealistic and full of unsafe theories."