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Strangers to Ourselves audiobook
- By: Rachel Aviv
- Narrator: Andi Arndt
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Medical
- Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 13, 2022
- Language: English
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Strangers to Ourselves Audiobook Summary
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The acclaimed, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a groundbreaking exploration of mental illness and the mind, and illuminates the startling connections between diagnosis and identity.
In Strangers to Ourselves, a 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 Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are.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. Animated by a profound sense of empathy, Aviv’s exploration is refracted through her own account of living in a hospital ward at the age of six and meeting a fellow patient with whom her life runs parallel–until it no longer does.
Aviv asks how the stories we tell about mental disorders shape their course in our lives. Challenging the way we understand and talk about illness, her account is a testament to the porousness and resilience of the mind.
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Andi Arndt is the narrator of Strangers to Ourselves audiobook that was written by Rachel Aviv
Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about medicine, education, and criminal justice, among other subjects. In 2022, she won a National Magazine Award for Profile Writing. A 2019 national fellow at New America, she received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to support her work on this book. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Rachel Aviv is the author of Strangers to Ourselves
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Strangers to Ourselves Full Details
| Narrator | Andi Arndt |
| Length | 7 hours 41 minutes |
| Author | Rachel Aviv |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | September 13, 2022 |
| ISBN | 9781250868862 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Strangers to Ourselves is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Medical
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The publisher of the Strangers to Ourselves is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250868862.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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