Strangers to ourselves : unsettled minds and the stories that make us

Strangers to ourselves : unsettled minds and the stories that make us / Rachel Aviv.

"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"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aviv, Rachel (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Mentally ill > Biography.
Psychotherapy patients > Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients > Biography.
Biographies.
Holy Cross Note:Graduating Student Library Worker 2024
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: 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 myself"
  • Epilogue: Hava "Stranger to myself".

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