Rachel Aviv

staff writer at The New Yorker and author of “Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us.”

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How do mental health diagnoses shape the identities of people experiencing them? Author Rachel Aviv explores this in “Strangers to Ourselves.”

‘Strangers to Ourselves’: How we internalize ‘what’s gone wrong’

How do mental health diagnoses shape the identities of people experiencing them? Author Rachel Aviv explores this in “Strangers to Ourselves.”

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