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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