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(Somos) Extraños Para Nosotros Mismos / Strangers to Ourselves [Spanish]
Una mirada compasiva y valiente a la forma en que nos hablamos en los momentos dif ciles.
Seleccionado por The New York Times como uno de los mejores t tulos del a o. Finalista del National Book Critics Circle. Estremecedor, real y, al mismo tiempo, esperanzador. Un acercamiento l cido y tremendamente original a los abismos de la mente humana.
Cuando Rachel Aviv ten a tan solo 6 a os, sus padres recibieron un demoledor diagn stico para su hija: era anor xica. Rachel, quien ni siquiera sab a lo que significaba la palabra, descubri que probablemente era la persona que hab a sido etiquetada con ese trastorno a una edad m s temprana.
A partir de esa experiencia, esta prestigiosa y combativa periodista cuestiona el beneficio o el perjuicio del diagn stico en salud mental y se sumerge en cuatro casos reales, cada uno m s impactante y revelador, para repasar c mo las etiquetas han determinado las d cadas m s recientes de la psiquiatr a en el mundo occidental.
El ensayo de Rachel Aviv recoge una investigaci n fascinante y minuciosa sobre los abusos de esta rama de la medicina en cualquiera de sus disciplinas, y tambi n pone nfasis en la importancia del entorno y de los otros en el proceso de curaci n. Es, adem s, un canto a la esperanza de superaci n de los trastornos mentales.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A compassionate and brave look at how we talk to ourselves during difficult times.
Selected by The New York Times as one of the best titles of the year. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Stirring, real, and at the same time, hopeful. A lucid and tremendously original approach to the depths of the human mind.
When Rachel Aviv was just 6 years old, her parents received a devastating diagnosis for their daughter: she was anorexic. Rachel, who didn't even know what the word meant, discovered that she was probably the youngest person to be labeled with this disorder.
From that experience, this prestigious and combative journalist questions the benefit or harm of mental health diagnoses and delves into four real cases, each more impactful and revealing, to review how labels have determined recent decades of psychiatry in the Western world.
Rachel Aviv's essay presents a fascinating and thorough investigation into the abuses of this branch of medicine in any of its disciplines, and also emphasizes the importance of the environment and others in the healing process. It is, furthermore, a hymn to the hope of overcoming mental disorders.
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