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Part I (Pages 1 - 47)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Aviv, Rachel. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2022. Hardcover.

• This book was written in the past tense and from the first person perspective.

• In the first section, "Prologue: Rachel," the author Rachel Aviv was 6 years old.

• Early in her life, Aviv's parents separated, and then divorced.

• In 1988, Aviv felt dizzy and told her mother she felt very ill.

• Aviv was admitted to Children's Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, for failure to eat.

• Eventually, at age 6, Aviv was diagnosed with anorexia.

• Aviv was assigned to a young psychologist, Thomas Koepke, who said there was no evidence of a child as young as six ever being diagnosed with anorexia before.

• Aviv was moved to a different part of the hospital with other young...

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