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Strangers to Ourselves
Rachel Aviv
Non-Fiction
Strangers to Ourselves
by Rachel Aviv
—· 288 p· 2022
reflectivehauntingphilosophicaldark
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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 Yo…
Pages
288
Penguin Random House
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Psychiatric Insight
10
Emotional depth
9
Biographical Reporting
9
Prose
8
Narration
8
Pacing
7
Plot twists
4
Worldbuilding
1
My journey
My experience
private
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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 Yo…
Pages
288
Penguin Random House
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
—
—
Psychiatric Insight
10
Emotional depth
9
Biographical Reporting
9
Prose
8
Narration
8
Pacing
7
Plot twists
4
Worldbuilding
1
My journey
Status
Unread
Started
DNF
Finished
My rating
Burndown
Reading days
Notes
your reading journal
Books like Strangers to Ourselves
If you loved this
The Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient
Norman Cousins
The Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient