Rachel Aviv

Rachel Aviv, 2020 Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient, talks about her forthcoming book "Strangers to Ourselves." Read more about the winners of the Creative Nonfiction Grant at www.whiting.or...
Videography by Veena Rao

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I just learned from Rachel that her forthcoming book will have a chapter on the former Chestnut Lodge, a humane psychiatric hospital in Rockville, Maryland for "treatment-resistant" patients. It was a victim of managed care, and a shift in psychiatry to an excessively biological model of treatment.