Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

by Rachel Aviv

It’s startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives.

“To make a person look at himself when he’s in no condition to do so,” Ayd said, “can be a very dangerous thing to do.”

“There is no such thing as a rich patient or a poor patient … There is no such thing as a black patient or a white patient. There is only one type of patient—and that is a sick patient.”