Strangers to Ourselves
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What’s it about?
Through five extraordinary lives, Rachel Aviv explores how the stories we tell about mental suffering shape our identities, challenging the limits of diagnosis and the medical model.
You’ll learn
- Mental illness is a personal narrative
- Diagnoses can liberate or confine
- First-person perspectives matter
- Medication involves complex trade-offs