Top 6 Rachel Aviv Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

2. “I’m doing better now. I’m assimilating into what I’d like to think is a normal existence. And I don’t want contact with the prior life. You make me vulnerable.”

— Rachel Aviv

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

— Rachel Aviv

4. “Mental illnesses are often seen as chronic and intractable forces that take over our lives, but I wonder how much the stories we tell about them, especially in the beginning, can shape their course.”

— Rachel Aviv

5. “The divide between the psychic hinterlands and a setting we might call normal is permeable, a fact that I find both haunting and promising. It’s startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives.”

— Rachel Aviv

6. “People can feel freed by these stories, but they can also get stuck in them.”

— Rachel Aviv

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