Facebook Twitter Instagram

FSG

9781250872913

STARRED REVIEW
Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science

Strangers to Ourselves

By Rachel Aviv

Strangers to Ourselves is a stunning book about people whose experiences of mental illness exceed the limits of Western psychiatry.

Find on WorldCat

Share this Article:

Review of ‘Strangers to Ourselves’

Rachel Aviv's first book explores questions of self-knowledge and mental health, subjects she's previously examined in her award-winning journalism for The New Yorker. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us is a stunning book, offering sensitive case histories of people whose experiences of mental illness exceed the limits of psychiatric terminology,…

Featuring ‘Strangers to Ourselves’

Take your book club on a trip through the brain
From neuroscience to psychology, these nonfiction titles explore the mysteries of the human mind.

Featuring ‘Strangers to Ourselves’

Best Nonfiction of 2022
This year’s best nonfiction books ran the gamut from timely to timeless. Meghan O’Rourke, Siddhartha Mukherjee and Linda Villarosa broke new ground in our understanding of illness. Memoirs by fiction writers including Amy Bloom, Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Erika Krouse told gripping true stories with a novelist’s flair. And beloved favorites such as Ed Yong, Ross Gay and Stacy Schiff rose to meet their fans’ high expectations.

Sign Up

Stay on top of new releases: Sign up for our newsletter to receive reading recommendations in your favorite genres.

Sign up now