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

Aviv, Rachel.

Strangers to ourselves : unsettled minds and the stories that make us / Rachel Aviv. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. - 276 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-274)

"[The author] . . . 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 Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are"--Provided by publisher.

Adult Follett School Solutions.

9780374600846

2022021878


Mental illness.
Psychotherapy patients--Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients--Biography.

RC464.A1 / A95 2022

616.89/14