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Author:   Rachel Aviv
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
Imprint:   Vintage
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 19.40cm
Weight:   0.200kg
ISBN:  

9781529111651

ISBN 10:   152911165
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   25 January 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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A subtle and penetrating investigation into how mental illness is diagnosed ... Aviv is an instinctive storyteller... meticulous, empathic, tirelessly inquisitive. -- Hephzibah Anderson * Observer * So attuned to subtlety and complexity... a book-length demonstration of Aviv's extraordinary ability to hold space for the uncertainty, mysteries and doubt of others. * New York Times Book Review * Profoundly intelligent ... superbly written portraits ... [A] remarkable book. * Guardian * Captures with subtlety and empathy the honest reality of mental illness... a human chronicle that is intimate and unpredictable... Instead of demonizing disorders of the mind, Aviv seeks to understand their causes. * The Times * An incredibly researched, empathetic, and moving book. * Lit Hub *

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Rachel Aviv is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about medicine, education, criminal justice, and other subjects. In 2022, she won a National Magazine Award for Profile Writing. A 2019 national fellow at New America, she received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to support her work on Strangers to Ourselves. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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