Over four decades of clinical experience, Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of “normal” as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. Prescription drug usage, high blood pressure, mental illness, and so many other troubling issues are on the rise. It has been said, ¿ If one cannot find the book one seeks, then one will usually find what one has looked ten years to locate within our reserve.In 'The Myth of Normal' renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems are actually seeing an upsurge in chronic illness and general ill health.

We will likely be able to find what you are looking for in the private libraries from around the world, which contribute to our inventory. If you are unable to locate what you need in our stock of several thousand books, please feel free to contact us directly at. We hope that you too can one day come and join our intimate dialogue about worlds we often find more compelling than our own. In short, the passionate ones gather here regularly to share ideas, make contacts, acquire books, and view our occasional art exhibitions. We are not just a bookshop selling texts on the many regions of tribal art in reality we have become a crossroads where new and out-of-print literature meet with the hands and contribute to the conversations of: connoisseurs, dealers, artists, museum staff, and university professors. Although you may not be in Brussels to visit us, the photographs of our clientele and listings of available texts on this site should give you a good idea of what we have created. Welcome to the gateway of the idiosyncratic world called Vasco & Co.

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