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

Aviv, Rachel, (author.).

Summary:

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 Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are.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

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374600846
  • ISBN: 0374600848
  • ISBN: 9781250872913
  • ISBN: 125087291X
  • Physical Description: 276 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Content descriptions

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Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Rachel "Someone better than me" -- Ray "Am I really this? Am I not this? What am I?" -- Bapu "Is this difficulty I am facing the lesson of total surrender?" -- Naomi "You're not listening to me" -- Laura "He could read my mind, as though I didn't need to explain myself" -- Epilogue: Hava "Stranger to myself".
Subject: Mentally ill > Biography.
Psychotherapy patients > Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 13 of 13 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City. (Show)

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
North Kansas City Public Library 616.8914 AVIV 2022 (Text) 0001012486089 Nonfiction Available -
Cape Girardeau Public Library 616.891 AVI (Text) 33042004864925 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Cass County Library-Harrisonville 616.8914 AVI 2022 (Text) 0002205405901 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Jefferson County Library-Arnold 616.8914 AVIV (Text)
: SHELVED IN THE MENTAL HEALTH/ ADDICTION SECTION OF THE HEALTH NEIGHBORHOOD
30061100095500 Display Area Available -
Jefferson County Library-Cedar Hill 616.8914 AVIV (Text) 30031100086908 Non-Fiction Available -
Nevada Public Library 616.89 AVI 2022 (Text) 32770114462062 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Polk County Library-Bolivar 616.89 AVI (Text) 34531000320365 Non-Fiction Available -
Poplar Bluff - Main Library 616.89 AVIV (Text) 38420101775480 NON-FICTION Available -
Scenic Regional-Owensville 616.8914 AVI (Text) 3007963508 New NonFiction Available -
Scenic Regional-Union 616.8914 AVI (Text) 3007963516 New NonFiction Available -


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