{"product_id":"9781529111651-strangers-to-ourselves","title":"Strangers to Ourselves","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eTop 10 Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Captures with subtlety and empathy the honest reality of mental illness’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere are stories that save us, and stories that trap us, and in the midst of an illness it can be very hard to know which is which…\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrangers to Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e shares the experiences of five people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. It asks, do the stories we tell around mental illness affect its course, its outcomes, even our identities?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on in-depth reporting, written testimonies and formative events in her own childhood, award-winning \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e writer Rachel Aviv offers a subtle, compassionate, revelatory account of how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Aviv finds language for the most ineffable registers of human experience’ \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Profoundly intelligent… superbly written portraits’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA best book of the year in the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVogue \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41271272013921,"sku":"9781529111651","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32345184.jpg?v=1737186308","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529111651-strangers-to-ourselves","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}