EAN: 9781529111651

STRANGERS TO OURSELVES - RACHEL AVIV KARTONIERT...

New York Times Book Review Top 10 Books of the Year'Captures with subtlety and empathy the
honest reality of mental illness' The Times There are stories that save us  and stories that
trap us  and in the midst of 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 around mental
illness affect its course  its outcomes  even our identities? Drawing on in-depth reporting 
written testimonies and formative events in her own 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. 'Aviv finds language for the most ineffable registers of
human experience' Wall Street Journal'Profoundly intelligent... superbly written portraits'
Guardian A best book of the year in the Los Angeles Times  Time  Washington Post  New Yorker 
and Vogue

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