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A review by atomic_tourist
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv
I loved this book.
Rachel Aviv did a beautiful job telling these stories. It's hard to discuss mental health without exclusively reaching for (reductive) medical terminology, but Aviv resisted that urge. She opted instead to describe the depth of feeling, emotion, and circumstance that was experienced by each 'unsettled mind' in this collection, while situating them in the context of psychology and psychiatry. (Naomi's story in particular really got to me. Just... wow.)
Rachel Aviv did a beautiful job telling these stories. It's hard to discuss mental health without exclusively reaching for (reductive) medical terminology, but Aviv resisted that urge. She opted instead to describe the depth of feeling, emotion, and circumstance that was experienced by each 'unsettled mind' in this collection, while situating them in the context of psychology and psychiatry. (Naomi's story in particular really got to me. Just... wow.)