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Rachel Aviv joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2013. She has written for the magazine about a range of subjects including medical ethics, criminal justice, education, and homelessness. She was a finalist for the 2018 National Magazine Award for Public Interest for “The Takeover,” a story about elderly people being stripped of their legal rights, and she won the 2015 Scripps Howard Award for “Your Son Is Deceased,” a story on police shootings in Albuquerque. Her writing on mental health was awarded a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship, an Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and an American Psychoanalytic Association Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has taught courses in narrative medicine at Columbia Univers ...more

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Average rating: 4.1 · 16,814 ratings · 2,148 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us 4.10 avg rating — 15,707 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters 4.22 avg rating — 997 ratings — published 2026 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	گم‌شدن در انفرادی by Rachel Aviv, علی امیری (Translator), آرش رضاپور (Translator) 3.46 avg rating — 91 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Won’t Get Free of It by Rachel Aviv, Unknown Author 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toastmaster by Rachel Aviv, Lisa Larsen (Reading) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Netherland: Young, gay, and homeless in New York City 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Os piores crimes da revista New Yorker: Oito grandes reportagens sobre crimes da melhor revista jornalística do mundo by Mavis Gallant, Sidney Ferreira (Narrator), Rachel Aviv really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Calamities: five questions about suffering and its meaning.(Book review): An article from: Artforum International 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives.”
― Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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“The philosopher Ian Hacking uses the term “looping effect” to describe the way that people get caught in self-fulfilling stories about illness. A new diagnosis can change “the space of possibilities for personhood,” he writes. “We make ourselves in our own scientific image of the kinds of people it is possible to be.”
― Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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“Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow.”
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