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Strangers to ourselves : unsettled minds and the stories that make us / Rachel Aviv.

Aviv, Rachel, (author.).

Summary:
"The highly anticipated debut from the acclaimed award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv compels us to examine how the stories we tell about mental illness shape our sense of who we are"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374600846
  • ISBN: 0374600848
  • Physical Description: 276 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-274).
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Rachel "Someone better than me" -- Ray "Am I really this? Am I not this? What am I?" -- Bapu "Is this difficulty I am facing the lesson of total surrender?" -- Naomi "You're not listening to me" -- Laura "He could read my mind, as though I didn't need to explain myself" -- Epilogue: Hava "Stranger to myself".
Subject: Mentally ill > Biography.
Psychotherapy patients > Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients > Biography.

Available copies

  • 16 of 17 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 17 total copies.
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Albright Memorial Library 616.89 AVIV (Text) 50686016219094 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library 616.89 AVIV (Text) 50686016232386 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 616.8914 AVI (Text) 33240005150126 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Emmaus Public Library 616.89 AVIV (Text) 36446002072588 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Gettysburg Library 616.89 AVIV (Text)
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Indian Valley Public Library 616.89 Aviv Mental Health (Text) 39427103699864 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Available -
Lower Macungie Library 616.8914 AVI (Text) 33400001565707 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Martin Library Adults 616.89 AVI Health Wellness (Text) 33454005899620 2nd Floor Available -
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity 616.89 AVI 2022 (Text) 31001101865096 Adult Non Fiction Available -
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