Aviv, Rachel

Summary: In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions about how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on deep, original reporting as well as unpublished journals and memoirs, Aviv writes about people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. She follows an Indian woman, celebrated...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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Cline, Sally.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2003

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Vincent, Norah.

Summary: From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Self-Made Man" comes this eye-opening, emotionally wrenching, and at time very funny work that exposes the state of mental healthcare in America from the inside out.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008

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Winchester, Simon.

Summary: Describes how more than ten thousand definitions were submitted for the first Oxford English Dictionary from Dr. W.C. Minor, an American Civil War criminal who was considered both a genius and a lunatic.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2005

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