Strangers to ourselves : unsettled minds and the stories that make us
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
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First edition.
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Rapid City Public Library - Social Science - Adult
SOCIAL SCIENCE 616.8914 AVI
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
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Book
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First edition.
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276 pages ; 22 cm
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English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-274).
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"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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In Strangers to Ourselves, 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 Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are.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. Animated by a profound sense of empathy, Aviv's exploration is refracted through her own account of living in a hospital ward at the age of six and meeting a fellow patient with whom her life runs parallel--until it no longer does.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Aviv, R. (2022). Strangers to ourselves: unsettled minds and the stories that make us (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Aviv, Rachel. 2022. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Aviv, Rachel. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Aviv, Rachel. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

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