Rachel Aviv
Autor(a) de Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Obras de Rachel Aviv
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Educação
- Brrown University
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 306
- Popularidade
- #76,934
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 13
- Idiomas
- 2
The book is also prefaced and ended with an account of her own early childhood stay in a mental health ward and how the two girls she looked up to while she was there had lives that turned out very differently than her own.
There's so much here, and it's all so fascinating. Aviv isn't advocating for specific approaches (although she is clear on the need for more funding and improvements to mental healthcare), but exploring the places where the contradictions lay. It makes sense that an organ as complex as the human brain would sit uncomfortably with simple answers or that what works for one person would also work for another. Aviv is also so deeply caring of her four subjects and her reporting here includes family members and those who have interacted with them, showing how mental illness doesn't only affect the person disabled by the illness. Aviv knows how to tell a story and her attention to detail is effective here. This is a far cry from the usual "look at this wacky mental illness and how it makes this guy act weird" approach and I'll be thinking about the issues she raises and the very real people she writes about for some time.… (mais)