As a therapist, I tend to work at the warm, friendly, relational end of the mental health field. As a reporter, Rachel Aviv is drawn to the other tip of the canoe, that is, the medical, scientific, psychiatric, diagnostic end. Each chapter in this book profiles an individual and how their concept of self was impacted, not just by their own mental health conditions, but also by the medical establishment purportedly trying to help them. Each individual portrayed sheds a unique light on the challenges and limitations of our current mental health system.