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Strangers to Ourselves
Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us
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The highly anticipated debut from the award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv asks how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our deepest sense of who we are. There are stories that save us, and stories that trap us, and in the midst of an...
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The highly anticipated debut from the award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv asks how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our deepest sense of who we are.
There are stories that save us, and stories that trap us, and in the midst of an illness it can be very hard to know which is which...
Strangers to Ourselves shares the experiences of five people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. It asks, do the stories we tell around mental illness affect its course, its outcomes, even our identities?
Drawing on in-depth reporting, written testimonies and formative events in her own childhood, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a subtle, compassionate, revelatory account of how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress.
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ISBN: 9781529111651
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 January 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 194.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about medicine, education, criminal justice, and other subjects. In 2022, she won a National Magazine Award for Profile Writing. A 2019 national fellow at New America, she received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to support her work on Strangers to Ourselves. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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