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Strangers to Ourselves
Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us
Verlag:
Penguin Random House Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 3Y6V7QE
EAN: 9781787301696
Auf Lager:
3
Zustellung: Di, 29.09.2026
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Beschreibung
Strangers to Ourselves. is a compassionate, courageous and deeply researched look at the ways we talk about and understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on conversations as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, it follows people who have found that psychiatric language has limitations when it comes to explaining who they are, or that a diagnosis, while giving their experience a name, creates a sense of a future life they wish to question or resist. Rachel Aviv is known for her radical empathy: she excels at seeing the world through the eyes of her fellow human beings. Writing first about her own experience of being institutionalized at the age of six, she introduces, among others, a mother recovering from psychosis and rebuilding her relationship with her children; a woman who lives in healing temples in Kerala, where she is celebrated as a saint; and a young woman who, after a decade of defining herself through her diagnosis, decides to stop her medication because she doesn't know who she is without it. Through startling connections, intimate testimonies and diverse cultural perspectives, Aviv opens up fresh ways of thinking about illness and the mind, in a book which is curious, transformative, and above all, profoundly human.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Rachel Aviv
Thema
- Psychologie: Allgemein
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2022
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Detailformat
- Softcover
Anzahl Seiten
- 288