Strangers to Ourselves: Stories of Unsettled Minds

Rachel Aviv

Efinito

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us

Vintage

Toastmaster

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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Strangers to Ourselves

<p>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. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. 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 defining herself through her diagnosis, decides to go off her meds because she doesn’t know who she is without them. Animated by a profound sense of empathy, Aviv’s exploration is refracted through her own account of living in a hospital ward at the age of six and meeting a fellow patient with whom her life runs parallel―until it no longer does.\nAviv asks how the stories we tell about mental disorders shape their course in our lives. Challenging the way we understand and talk about illness, her account is a testament to the porousness and resilience of the mind.</p>

HARVILL/SECKER

Estranhos a nos mesmos. Historias de mentes instaveis (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Zahar

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