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The Myth of Normal, page 56
process of, 94–95
race and racism, 318
caregivers, 66, 105–6, 125–26, 129, 337–38. See also child development and parenting
CARE system, 130–31
Carlene, 320–21
Caroline, 37–38, 37n, 40
Case, Anne, 289
Caterina, 267–70
Cavoukian, Raffi, 123, 124, 134–35, 491
CBS News, 302
celiac disease, 70, 72
Ceremony (Silko), 447
cesarean sections (C-sections), 143, 152–54
character-building, 197–207
background, 197–99
consumption-hunger trait, 203–5
hypnotic-passivity trait, 205–7
identity crises, 199–202
separation-from-self trait, 202–3
social character, 200–207
Charcot, Jean-Martin, 80, 81
Charles VII (king), 477
Chekhov, Anton, 383
childbirth, 146–59
agency and midwifery, 146–47, 150–55, 158–59
C-sections, 143, 152–54
obstetrical trauma, 155–58
race and, 319
as sacred life passage, 159
social culture and, 150
socioeconomic status and, 157–58
Western medicine and, 146–58
child development and parenting, 123–35, 179–96
addiction and, 221–22, 227–28, 230–32, 233–34
attachment and authenticity, 105–10, 128–34
autoimmunity and, 75, 76–77, 78, 81
background, 160
blame and, 126, 139, 179–80
character-building, 197–207
child honoring, 123–24, 127, 133–34
digital technology use, 188–93, 194–95
disease process rooted in, 85–87, 88–89
educational priorities, 193–96
emotion development and, 124–27, 134
epigenetics and, 62–64
free play, 134, 194–95
gender gap in parenting, 337–39
human nature and, 117–18
instinct suppression for parents and, 160–71
interpersonal biology and, 56–57
loneliness of parenting, 170, 174–78
marketing and, 187–89
maturation, 127–28, 131–34, 182, 185–89
mental illness and, 242–44, 247, 248–49, 257, 267–70
parental stress effects, 171–74
peer orientation, 181–85, 187–88, 491–92
political culture and, 346–47
social culture and, 126, 128, 134–35, 175–77, 179–81, 183, 187–88, 193–96
trauma’s impact on, 17–18, 21–23, 33–35
vulnerability and, 185–87
child honoring, 123–24, 127, 133–34, 491
Childhood Under Siege (Bakan), 187, 188–89
Chinese medicine (traditional), 98
The Choice (Eger), 372
Chomsky, Noam, 115, 206, 482
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate (Chomsky), 115
A Chorus of Stones (Griffin), 13
chronic fatigue syndrome (myalgic encephalomyelitis; ME), 70, 101–2
circumcision, 167, 167n
climate change, 308–10
Clinton, Bill, 60, 352, 355
Clinton, Hillary, 349, 351–53
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 314, 317
Cobain, Kurt, 356
Cohen, Ben, 283
Cole, Steven, 90–91, 92, 93–94, 282, 294
commercial culture. See capitalism and corporate capitalism
commercials and advertising, 204–5, 298–300
community-mindedness
benefits of, 287–88
human nature and, 116, 120–21
loss of, 286–96
parenting and, 174–78
pregnancy environment and, 144, 145
compassion
autoimmunity and, 83–84
of curiosity and understanding, 384–85
healing journey and, 83–84, 259, 382–89
ordinary human compassion, 272, 383–84
as personality trait, 102–3
pity-compassion comparison, 384
of possibility, 388–89
of recognition, 385–86
self-compassion, 83–84, 384, 391–95
of truth, 386–88
Compassionate Inquiry (CI), 419–21, 448–49
concussion analogy, 20
connection. See disconnection of society
conspiracy realism, 299–300
consumption-hunger trait, 203–5
The Continuum Concept (Liedloff), 119, 131
control adaptation, 260–62
Cooke, Will, 468–69
corporal punishment, 168–69
corporate capitalism. See capitalism and corporate capitalism
The Corporation (Bakan), 306
correctional system, 475–76, 489–90
cortisol, 70, 280, 280n
Courtney, 155–57
COVID-19 pandemic
autoimmunity and, 84n
capitalism and, 284
gender disparities and, 338
lessons from, 286
race and, 317
risk factors, 302–3
as a teacher, 494–95
Coyle, Jim, 348
Cozolino, Louis, 233–34
Cracked Up! (documentary), 222, 236n
The Crack in the Cosmic Egg (Pearce), 359
Cree people, 163
Cribsheet (Oster), 161–62
Crimeni, Carson, 184–85
Crohn’s disease, 49–50, 70, 72
Crow, Sheryl, 390
C-sections (cesarean sections), 143, 152–54
Cullis-Suzuki, Severn, 308–9
Cured (Rediger), 398–99
curing-healing comparison, 362
curiosity, 384–85
Curtis, Jamie Lee, 217–18, 357
D
Daily Gazette (Harvard University), 42–43
Damasio, Antonio, 124
Damon, Matt, 272
Danielle, 154
Danish Medical Journal, 73
Darlene, 382, 387–88
Davis, Wade, 281, 459–60, 475, 479
death, acceptance of, 403–7, 474–75
deaths by despair, 289
Deaton, Angus, 289
delta waves, 422–23
delusions, 268, 269–70
deMause, Lloyd, 162
denial and suppression, 27–28, 100–102, 441–46
depression
biological approach to, 255–56
cancer risk factor, 43
capitalism and, 280, 295–96
diagnostic approach to, 241, 253–54
gender disparities, 330
pharmaceutical approach to, 235, 247–48
postpartum depression, 141, 142
Descartes’ Error (Damasio), 124
desocialization. See disconnection of society
detachment. See attachment and authenticity
de Waal, Frans, 121
Dhammapada, 31
diabetes, 70, 72, 322–23
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), 240, 243, 244
Dickinson, Emily, 209
Didion, Joan, 352, 486
digital technology use, 32–33, 188–93, 194–95
Dines, Gail, 233, 335
diplopia (double vision), 79, 81
disconnection from emotions, 23–28, 32–34, 111–12, 264–67
disconnection of society, 286–96
alienation and, 32–33, 290–93
capitalism and, 277–82, 285
conclusion, 296
dislocation and, 288–90
loneliness and, 293–95
loss of meaning and, 286–88, 291–92
materialism and, 295–96
spiritual, 467–68
disease as a process, 85–95
addiction and, 225
background, 85–87
emotions and, 90, 96–97, 110–12
healing journey centered on, 92, 94–95
personality traits and, 96–112
psychosomatic component to, 39
as reframing approach to disease, 87–94
self-compassion and, 83–84, 391–95
disease as a teacher, 390–407
for acceptance of death, 403–7
for authenticity development, 395–99
background, 95, 390–91
compassion and, 385–86
COVID-19 pandemic, 494–95
for emotional release, 399–403
for self-compassion development, 83–84, 384, 391–95
“disease” paradigm
of addiction, 214–16, 215n, 216n, 219, 224
of mental illness, 235–41
dislocation, 288–90
dissociation adaptation, 250, 255–56, 262–64
Doblin, Rick, 460
dogs, 267
Dolman, Sherri, 151–53, 154
Donne, John, 52
dopamine, 190–91, 232–33, 241, 266
Dopamine Labs, 191
Doty, James, 382–83
double-mindedness, 433
double vision (diplopia), 79, 81
Down Girl (Manne), 340–41
Doyle, William, 195
drugs. See addiction and specific drugs
DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), 240, 243, 244
Duhigg, Charles, 291
Dunham, Lena, 199, 217, 219, 222, 357
Dworkin, Andrea, 336–37
Dylan, Bob, 204
E
eating disorders, 270–72, 313–14
eczema, 70
Educated (Westover), 28
education system, 490–92
Eger, Edith, 371–73, 437–38
ego, 53–54, 104–7, 112
Eichmann, Adolf, 495
emotional labor, 337–41
emotions
autoimmunity and, 75–76
child development and, 124–27, 134, 188–89
depression as absence of, 254–56
disconnection from, 111–12
disease as a teacher for release of, 399–403
disease process and, 90, 96–97, 110–12
gender gap and, 333–34, 336, 341–42
hypnotic-passivity trait and, 205–7
interpersonal biology and, 56–57
machinery of stress, 46–49
medical training and, 94–95
mind-body unity, 38–46, 49–51
personality traits and, 96–105, 110–12
personal stories, 37–38, 49–51
pregnancy environment and, 138–43
suppression of, 320
survival instinct and, 28
employment, 57–58, 141, 290, 291–93
endocrine system (hormones)
