New York Times Book Review Top 10 Books of the Year
‘Captures with subtlety and empathy the honest reality of mental illness’ The Times
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 Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a subtle, compassionate, revelatory account of how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress.
‘Aviv finds language for the most ineffable registers of human experience’ Wall Street Journal
‘Profoundly intelligent… superbly written portraits’ Guardian
A best book of the year in the Los Angeles Times, Time, Washington Post, New Yorker, and Vogue
"A subtle and penetrating investigation into how mental illness is diagnosed ... Aviv is an instinctive storyteller... meticulous, empathic, tirelessly inquisitive." - Observer
"So attuned to subtlety and complexity... a book-length demonstration of Aviv's extraordinary ability to hold space for the "uncertainty, mysteries and doubt" of others." - New York Times Book Review
"Profoundly intelligent ... superbly written portraits ... [A] remarkable book." - Guardian
"Captures with subtlety and empathy the honest reality of mental illness... a human chronicle that is intimate and unpredictable... Instead of demonizing disorders of the mind, Aviv seeks to understand their causes." - The Times
"An incredibly researched, empathetic, and moving book." - Lit Hub
"Combines the poise of Janet Malcolm and the confessional bravery of Joan Didion ... Through half a dozen vivid case studies - one being the story of her own hospitalization at age six - Aviv unravels medical diagnoses and demonstrates how societal narratives around illness take hold. The result is fascinating and empathetic." - Vogue
"Aviv applies her signature conscientiousness and probing intellect to every section of this eye-opening book ... A moving, meticulously researched, elegantly constructed work of nonfiction." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"In writing against the limits of psychiatric narratives, into the space where language has failed, Aviv paradoxically finds language for the most ineffable registers of human experience." - Wall Street Journal
"I was blown away...a radically human book that lead me not to answers, but to better questions, about the infinite contingencies of mental "health"" - Observer, Christmas Gift Guide 2022
"Strangers to Ourselves was revelatory to me in its empathetic, sprawling unraveling of how mental illness forms our identities... It's the best kind of reported nonfiction, an entire book that feels like the best New Yorker piece you've ever read" - White Review, Books of the Year
"Aviv is a skilled writer... The people at the centre of the book come alive through her prose" - Times Literary Supplement
"This is a really affecting book, and one that anyone with even the faintest interest in mental health should read... meticulous, moving portraits of people, from all walks of life" - Dazed Digital
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‘Captures with subtlety and empathy the honest reality of mental illness’ The Times
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 Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a subtle, compassionate, revelatory account of how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress.
‘Aviv finds language for the most ineffable registers of human experience’ Wall Street Journal
‘Profoundly intelligent… superbly written portraits’ Guardian
A best book of the year in the Los Angeles Times, Time, Washington Post, New Yorker, and Vogue
"A subtle and penetrating investigation into how mental illness is diagnosed ... Aviv is an instinctive storyteller... meticulous, empathic, tirelessly inquisitive." - Observer
"So attuned to subtlety and complexity... a book-length demonstration of Aviv's extraordinary ability to hold space for the "uncertainty, mysteries and doubt" of others." - New York Times Book Review
"Profoundly intelligent ... superbly written portraits ... [A] remarkable book." - Guardian
"Captures with subtlety and empathy the honest reality of mental illness... a human chronicle that is intimate and unpredictable... Instead of demonizing disorders of the mind, Aviv seeks to understand their causes." - The Times
"An incredibly researched, empathetic, and moving book." - Lit Hub
"Combines the poise of Janet Malcolm and the confessional bravery of Joan Didion ... Through half a dozen vivid case studies - one being the story of her own hospitalization at age six - Aviv unravels medical diagnoses and demonstrates how societal narratives around illness take hold. The result is fascinating and empathetic." - Vogue
"Aviv applies her signature conscientiousness and probing intellect to every section of this eye-opening book ... A moving, meticulously researched, elegantly constructed work of nonfiction." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"In writing against the limits of psychiatric narratives, into the space where language has failed, Aviv paradoxically finds language for the most ineffable registers of human experience." - Wall Street Journal
"I was blown away...a radically human book that lead me not to answers, but to better questions, about the infinite contingencies of mental "health"" - Observer, Christmas Gift Guide 2022
"Strangers to Ourselves was revelatory to me in its empathetic, sprawling unraveling of how mental illness forms our identities... It's the best kind of reported nonfiction, an entire book that feels like the best New Yorker piece you've ever read" - White Review, Books of the Year
"Aviv is a skilled writer... The people at the centre of the book come alive through her prose" - Times Literary Supplement
"This is a really affecting book, and one that anyone with even the faintest interest in mental health should read... meticulous, moving portraits of people, from all walks of life" - Dazed Digital
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