Rachel Aviv
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 6 Jul
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Fresh Air · Writer Rachel Aviv explores the complexity of the mother-daughter bond · 6 Jul 2026
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And I think that woman who said that to me shaped so much of the way I approach sort of psychological experience, because especially with psychiatry, it is so hard to
to communicate the experience.
And so you kind of reach for the available language.
And when you reach for that available language, you are also kind of distorting the original experience you had because it's like conforming or mapping onto
symptoms or psychiatric language.
Like it feels like there's a core of distressing experience that we sometimes like aren't bothering to articulate because we're relying on the diagnostic language or the kind of like advocacy language.
I think with sexual abuse, that was an experience I had where
You know, someone can say I felt violated and that feels familiar.
And of course, it's like getting to the heart of it.
But there was a way in which Andrea Alice Monroe's daughter spoke in which I felt like it was just appreciating like the corrosive nature of not just the abuse, but sort of what it means to sort of not be able to speak about that abuse.
And that there is value in trying to describe it in part because
Other people, it kind of gives language to other people who feel like they're the only ones in the world who've had this experience.
I mean, motherhood is definitely politicized in ways that become very binary and simplistic.
And I have thought a lot about sort of how to write in this particular moment because everything is happening so fast.
And nothing rises to the level of corruption that is sort of happening right in front of us.
Like whatever you're uncovering,
kind of pales, no one's hiding anything anymore in a way.
And I guess I'm just like, it's been a struggle for me and for other journalists I'm friends with to sort of think about what constitutes a story these days.
I think like complicated stories that hold...
different viewpoints that don't take the kind of expected predictable argument are something to hold on to and that feel at risk.
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