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

by Rachel Aviv

“The symptoms and the sickness and the secrets have many reasons for being,” Greenberg, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, wrote. “If it were not so, we could give you a nice shot of this or that drug.” But, she wrote, “these symptoms are built of many needs and serve many purposes, and that is why getting them away makes so much suffering.”