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When the Body Says No
Gabor Maté
About this book
Gabor Maté draws on decades of clinical practice and medical literature to show how chronic illness is often the body's way of saying no to what the mind has suppressed — stress, unexpressed emotion, and the denial of the self's true needs.
Key themes
- The biology of stress: how emotional suppression becomes physical disease
- The ACE study and childhood adversity as a driver of adult illness
- Why 'being nice' and caretaking without self-care is pathological
- The relationship between autoimmune disease and emotional repression
- Authentic self-expression as a form of immune support
About the author
Gabor Maté, MD is a Canadian physician and bestselling author known for his work on addiction, trauma, and mind-body medicine. He studied under Dr. Vincent Felitti and has lectured globally on trauma-informed medicine.
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