Strangers to ourselves
Aviv, Rachel2022
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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 Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are.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.
Main title:
Strangers to ourselves / Rachel Aviv.
Author:
Aviv, Rachel, author
Imprint:
London : Harvill Secker, 2022.
Collation:
400 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781787301689 (hbk)
Dewey class:
616.8900922616.890
LC class:
RC464.A1
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3188977