Strangers to Ourselves
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Some stories save us, and stories trap us, and amid 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 about mental illness affect its course, its outcomes, and even our identities?
Drawing on in-depth reporting, written testimonies, and formative events in her 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.
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 about mental illness affect its course, its outcomes, and even our identities?
Drawing on in-depth reporting, written testimonies, and formative events in her 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.