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035			_a(OCoLC)1331750176
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092			_a616.8914 _bA959
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aAviv, Rachel, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aStrangers to ourselves : _bunsettled minds and the stories that make us / _cRachel Aviv.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2209
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2022.
300			_a276 pages ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-274).
520			_a"The highly anticipated debut from the acclaimed award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv compels us to examine how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our sense of who we are"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_aIn 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 Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are.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.
650		0	_aMentally ill _vBiography. _9357094
650		0	_aPsychotherapy patients _vBiography. _9352404
650		0	_aPsychiatric hospital patients _vBiography.
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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