Strangers to Ourselves

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The highly anticipated debut from the award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv asks how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our deepest sense of who we are

There are stories that save us, and stories that trap us, and in the midst of an illness it can be very hard to know which is which...

Strangers to Ourselves shares the experiences of five people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. It asks, do the stories we tell around mental illness affect its course, its outcomes, even our identities?

Drawing on in-depth reporting, written testimonies and formative events in her own childhood, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a subtle, compassionate, revelatory account of how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781529111651
Published: January 2024

Number of pages: 288
Width: 128 mm
Height: 194 mm
Depth: 22 mm

Publisher: Vintage Publishing