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020			_a9781529111651
040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a616.8914 AVIV
100			_aAviv, Rachel, _eauthor.
245			_a Strangers to ourselves : _bunsettled minds and the stories that make us / _cRachel Aviv.
300			_a 276 pages ; _c 22 cm.
504			_a Includes bibliographical references.
520			_aA 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 Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are.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.
650			_aMentally ill _vBiography.
650			_aPsychotherapy patients _vBiography.
650			_aPsychiatric hospital patients _vBiography.
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