About the Author

Gabor Mate (Author)
Dr. Gabor Mate is a retired physician and bestselling author of five books published on six continents. He is an internationally renowned speaker. His most recent book, The Myth of Normal, has been translated into more than forty languages and is a New York Times, Sunday Times and international bestseller.

Daniel Mate (Author)
Daniel Mate is an acclaimed musical theatre songwriter and playwright whose work has been performed on multiple continents. Since 2024 Daniel has co-hosted the popular political satire podcast 'Bad Hasbara- The World's Most Moral Podcast.'

Reviews

Gabor Mate takes us on an epic journey of discovery about how our emotional well-being, and our social connectivity (in short: how we live), is intimately intertwined with health, disease and addictions ... This riveting and beautifully written tale has profound implications for all of our lives, including the practice of medicine and mental health
*Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score*

Wise, sophisticated, rigorous and creative: an intellectual and compassionate investigation of who we are and who we may become
*Tara Westover, author of Educated*

A book literally everyone will be enriched by - a wise, profound and healing work that is the culmination of Dr Maté's many years of deep and painfully accumulated wisdom
*Johann Hari, author of Stolen Focus*

An astonishing achievement, epic in scope and yet profoundly down-to-earth and practical. I will read this book again and again
*V (formerly Eve Ensler), author of The Vagina Monologues*

Brilliant, compelling and groundbreaking. Gabor Maté offers us a way to bring clear seeing and a greatness of heart to the crisis of our times
*Tara Brach, author of Radical Compassion*

A book in which readers can seek refuge and solace during moments of profound personal and social crisis
*Esther Perel, psychotherapist and author of Mating in Captivity*

Gabor Maté's connections - between the intensely personal and the global, the spiritual and the medical, the psychological and the political - are bold, wise and deeply moral. He is a healer to be cherished
*Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine*

A compelling book that will challenge your views and help lift the veil of illusion to what is truly happening in your mind and in your body
*Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness*

Gripping ... a powerful call for change in how we live with, love, understand, treat, and think about each other
*Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explaining Everything To Me*

Dr Maté has completely transformed how the world sees, talks about and understands trauma. And he has absolutely had that impact on me and it's been life-changing.
*Mel Robbins, #1 global bestselling author of The Let Them Theory*