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092			_a616.8914 Aviv
100	1		_aAviv, Rachel,
245	1	0	_aStrangers to ourselves : _bunsettled minds and the stories that make us / _cRachel Aviv.
246	3	0	_aUnsettled minds and the stories that make us.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2022.
300			_a276 pages ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [239]-274)
505	0		_aPrologue: Rachel. "Someone better than me" -- Ray. "Am I really this? Am I not this? What am I?" -- Bapu. "Is this difficulty I am facing the lesson of total surrender?" -- Naomi. "You're not listening to me" -- Laura. "He could read my mind, as though I didn't need to explain anything" -- Epilogue: Hava. "Stranger to myself"
520			_a"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 Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are.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. Aviv 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." --publisher's website.
650		0	_aMentally ill _vBiography.
650		0	_aPsychiatric hospital patients _vBiography.
650		0	_aPsychotherapy patients _vBiography.
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