Why normal is a myth (and why that matters)
Our interconnected nature. The last place you want to be: facets of trauma ; Living in an immaterial world: emotions, health, and the body-mind unity ; You rattle my brain: our highly interpersonal biology ; Everything I'm surrounded by: dispatches from the new science ; Mutiny on the body: the mystery of the rebellious immune system ; It ain't a thing: disease as process ; A traumatic tension: attachment vs. authenticity ; The distortion of human development. Who are we really? : human nature, human needs ; A sturdy or fragile foundation: children's irreducible needs ; Trouble at the threshold: before we come into the world ; What choice do I have? : childbirth in a medicalized culture ; Horticulture on the moon : parenting, undermined ; Forcing the brain in the wrong direction: the sabotage of childhood ; A template for distress: how culture builds our character
Rethinking abnormal: afflictions as adaptations. Just not to be you: debunking the myths about addiction ; Show of hands: a new view of addiction ; An inaccurate map of our pain: what we get wrong about mental illness ; The mind can do some amazing things: from madness to meaning
The toxicities of our culture. From society to cell: uncertainty, conflict, and loss of control ; Robbing the human spirit: disconnection and its discontents ; They just don't care if it kills you: sociopathy as strategy ; The assaulted sense of self: how race and class get under the skin ; Society's shock absorbers: why women have it worse ; We feel their pain: our trauma-infused politics
Pathways to wholeness. Mind in the lead: the possibility of healing ; Four A's and five compassions: some healing principles ; A dreadful gift: disease as teacher ; Before the body says no: first steps on the return to self ; Seeing is disbelieving: undoing self-limiting beliefs ; Foes to friends: working with the obstacles to healing ; Jesus in the tipi: psychedelics and healing ; My life as a genuine thing: touching spirit ; Unmaking a myth: visioning a saner society.
