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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
by Rachel Aviv
🧠Psychology~276 pages
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A work of narrative nonfiction following people whose lives were reshaped by psychiatric diagnosis, from a woman in India who left her family for a spiritual path to an American doctor whose depression resisted every explanation offered to her. Moving between case histories, medical debate across cultures and the author's own early hospital records, it asks how the stories we are given about our minds change what happens to us. The tone is careful, humane and quietly unsettling, attentive to the gap between clinical language and the way distress is actually lived and remembered.
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