Summary of Gabor Mate's When the Body Says No

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Raynaud’s phenomenon is a condition in which the small arteries supplying the fingers are narrowed, depriving the tissues of oxygen. It can lead to gangrene, and in some cases, scleroderma.
#2 The idea that people’s emotional coping style can be a factor in scleroderma or other chronic conditions is anathema to some physicians.
#3 The more specialized doctors become, the less they understand the human being in whom that part or organ resides. The people I interviewed for this book reported that neither their specialists nor their family doctors had ever invited them to explore the personal, subjective content of their lives.
#4 Until the advent of modern medical technology and scientific pharmacology, physicians relied on placebo effects to treat their patients. Today, we have lost the ability to treat our patients based on their confidence in their inner ability to heal.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Bien-être
• Bien-être
• Bien-être
• Bien-être
• Self-management
• Stress management

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 20 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669355755
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Gabor Mate's When the Body Says No
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17 Insights from Chapter 18 Insights from Chapter 19
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Raynaud’s phenomenon is a condition in which the small arteries supplying the fingers are narrowed, depriving the tissues of oxygen. It can lead to gangrene, and in some cases, scleroderma.

#2

The idea that people’s emotional coping style can be a factor in scleroderma or other chronic conditions is anathema to some physicians.

#3

The more specialized doctors become, the less they understand the human being in whom that part or organ resides. The people I interviewed for this book reported that neither their specialists nor their family doctors had ever invited them to explore the personal, subjective content of their lives.

#4

Until the advent of modern medical technology and scientific pharmacology, physicians relied on placebo effects to treat their patients. Today, we have lost the ability to treat our patients based on their confidence in their inner ability to heal.

#5

The new science of psychoneuroimmunology has shown that emotions are deeply implicated in the causation of illness or in the restoration of health. When emotions are repressed, as Mary had to do in her childhood search for security, this inhibition disarms the body’s defences against illness.

#6

The connections between behavior and subsequent disease are clear in the case of smoking and lung cancer, but it is harder to prove those connections when it comes to emotions and the emergence of multiple sclerosis or cancer.

#7

The mind-body link has been proven to exist, and it is important to understand that every bit of information may be crucial in healing. The word mindbody has been suggested to convey the real state of things.

#8

I am both a survivor and a child of the Nazi genocide. I lived most of my first year in Budapest under Nazi occupation. My mother was unable to provide me with unconditional nourishment, so I became my mother’s protector.

#9

The author’s friend Mary died in Vancouver Hospital eight years after her diagnosis, succumbing to the complications of scleroderma. She had been a gentle smile all her life, though her heart was weak and her breathing laboured.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The spring and summer of 1996 was a stressful time in Natalie’s life. In March her sixteen-year-old son was discharged from a six-month stay at a drug rehabilitation facility. In July her husband underwent surgery for a malignant bowel tumour.

#2

The idea that psychological stress increases the risk for multiple sclerosis is not new. It was first reported in 1868 by the French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, who described patients who connect long continued grief or vexation with the onset of symptoms.

#3

The evidence gathered from my interviews is consistent with the published research. Excessive emotional involvement with a parent, a lack of psychological independence, an overwhelming need for love and affection, and the inability to feel or express anger are all possible factors in the development of multiple sclerosis.

#4

The repression/stress perspective states that disease is punishment for our mistakes. But a search for scientific understanding is incompatible with moralizing and judgment. To say that an ill-advised decision to invite a potentially harmful person into your home was a source of stress and played a role in the onset of your illness is simply to point out a relationship between stress and disease.

#5

The blurring of psychological boundaries during childhood becomes a significant source of future physiological stress in the adult. People with indistinct personal boundaries live with stress every day.

#6

The stress response is dependent on the ability to fight or flight, and the MS patients I interviewed were unable to do either. They were placed in a position similar to that of the laboratory animals in the Chicago study, who were exposed to acute and chronic stress by their childhood conditioning.

#7

The life of Jacqueline du Pré, a gifted British cellist, illustrates the devastating effects of the stress brought on by emotional repression. She was in her 40s when she died from complications of multiple sclerosis.

#8

Jackie was a sensitive child who was often quiet and shy. She was said to have been placid, except when playing the cello. She presented a pleasant and compliant face to the world, but her inner reality was very different.

#9

Jackie’s relationship with her husband, Daniel Barenboim, dominated the last phase of her life before multiple sclerosis ended her cello playing. She had to be the Jackie the circumstances demanded.

#10

Jackie du Pré’s cello voice was her only voice. It was not. It worked for audiences, but it did not work for her. People loved her impassioned music making, but no one ever truly listened.
Insights from Chapter 3