Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Aviv Rachel
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Aviv Rachel The acclaimed, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a groundbreaking exploration of mental illness and…
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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Aviv Rachel
The acclaimed, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a groundbreaking exploration of mental illness and the mind, and illuminates the startling connections between diagnosis and identity.In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. She follows an Indian woman, celebrated as a saint, who lives in healing temples in Kerala; an incarcerated mother vying for her children's forgiveness after recovering from psychosis; a man who devotes his life to seeking revenge upon his psychoanalysts; and an affluent young woman who, after a decade of Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are.
Strangers to Ourselves