EAN: 9781787301696

STRANGERS TO OURSELVES - RACHEL AVIV KARTONIERT...

Strangers to Ourselves is a compassionate  courageous and deeply researched look at the ways we
talk about and understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on conversations
as well as unpublished journals and memoirs  it follows people who have found that psychiatric
language has limitations when it comes to explaining who they are  or that a diagnosis  while
giving their experience a name  creates a sense of a future life they wish to question or
resist. Rachel Aviv is known for her radical empathy: she excels at seeing the world through
the eyes of her fellow human beings. Writing first about her own experience of being
institutionalized at the age of six  she introduces  among others  a mother recovering from
psychosis and rebuilding her relationship with her children  a woman who lives in healing
temples in Kerala  where she is celebrated as a saint  and a young woman who  after a decade of
defining herself through her diagnosis  decides to stop her medication because she doesn't know
who she is without it. Through startling connections  intimate testimonies and diverse cultural
perspectives  Aviv opens up fresh ways of thinking about illness and the mind  in a book which
is curious  transformative  and above all  profoundly human.

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