How Did You Pick These Pseudo Case Studies?

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Bargavi was a woman in India who was both hospitalized for being schizophrenic and also sort of embraced when she would run away from her family. Ray Oshoroff I had known about him as well and had always been really interested with his life story. Naomi where I knew that I wanted the book to address like the way that psychiatry approaches race and I felt like I was actively looking for almost a year for someone whose life story kind of required that history.

Rachel Aviv is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her new book is Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us.

“I used to feel that if I knew everything, that was a good sign. And I've become more aware that if you know everything you want to argue, that's not such a good sign…. Do I have a genuine question? Is there something I’m trying to figure out? Then the story is worth telling. But if I don’t really have a question or if my question is already answered, then maybe that should give you pause.”

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