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Strangers to Ourselves - Stories of Unsettled Minds (Paperback)
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Strangers to Ourselves - Stories of Unsettled Minds (Paperback)
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This is a brilliant young prize-winning American journalist, a
staff writer for the New Yorker, asking important and subversive
questions about the evolution, application and development of
psychiatry. We place a great deal of trust in the medical system.
But does a mental health diagnosis have the power to perpetuate, or
even create, symptoms as its subject adapts to live within it? Is
there another way of talking about their experience? And are
patients being truly heard? In an attempt to answer these
questions, Aviv has chosen four subjects who have the capacity to
interrogate the theories and explanations they have been given for
their own mental states-subjects who at some stage fundamentally
reject psychiatry's explanatory framework, and see their own
suffering through another lens-spirituality, loneliness, legitimate
existential despair. Aviv believes that it is a writer's job to
listen and imagine and so tell the stories that other disciplines
may be missing. Alongside her subjects' stories she will write
about the evolution of psychiatry, with particularly interesting
and troubling reference to its imposition through colonial history.
The deep universal question at the heart of all of her work is,
what does it mean to be human? How far can we go to the edge of
experience and emotion and still remain sane? And what happens to
us-socially, culturally, medically, psychologically--when we step
into the liminal spaces outside of 'ordinary life'?
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