Summary of Gabor Mate's When the Body Says No

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669355755

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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