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

Aviv, Rachel, (author.).

Summary:

"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 Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are.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"--Publisher marketing.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374600846
  • ISBN: 0374600848
  • Physical Description: 276 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject:
Aviv, Rachel.
Anorexia > Patients > Biography.
Mentally ill > Biography.
Psychotherapy patients > Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients > Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.

Available copies

  • 17 of 22 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library. (Show)

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Mars Hill Library 616.89 AVI (Text) 30229101268273 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Ashe County Public Library 616.891 AVI (Text) 50503300476233 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Carver School Road Branch 616.891 A 2022 (Text) 0112400107747 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Cleveland County Main Library 616.891 AVI (Text) 22281500152515 Adult Nonfiction Checked out 08/18/2026
Cumberland Headquarters 616.8914 A (Text) 31781068511466 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Etowah Branch 616.8914 A (Text) 33258009598017 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Henderson Main Branch 616.8914 A (Text) 33258009598025 Adult Nonfiction Checked out 08/18/2026
High Point Library 616.8914 Aviv (Text) 30519010853904 Adult Nonfiction Available -
High Point Library 616.8914 Aviv (Text) 30519010854126 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Hope Mills Library 616.8914 AVI (Text) 31781068511482 Adult Nonfiction Available -