Emily Wells
@emilyennui.bsky.social
writer, A MATTER OF APPEARANCE out now https://www.emilywells.net/
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“Drawing on the archives of sickness and her own experience as a patient, [Emily Wells] demands a more nuanced understanding of the diagnostic categories of mental illness and biological illness”
A very good piece on A MATTER OF APPEARANCE in The New Yorker!
www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
A very good piece on A MATTER OF APPEARANCE in The New Yorker!
www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
A Memoir of Contested Illness That Takes On the Legacy of Hysteria
Emily Wells is interested in what her doctors see when they look at her: a depressed or anxious woman, perhaps even one who is faking sickness for attention.
www.newyorker.com
September 14, 2023 at 5:08 PM
“Drawing on the archives of sickness and her own experience as a patient, [Emily Wells] demands a more nuanced understanding of the diagnostic categories of mental illness and biological illness”
A very good piece on A MATTER OF APPEARANCE in The New Yorker!
www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
A very good piece on A MATTER OF APPEARANCE in The New Yorker!
www.newyorker.com/books/under-...