# 2022 National Book Festival: Heal Thyself? Mental Illness and Me with Rachel Aviv and Daniel Bergner

Despite recent efforts to destigmatize mental illness, it's still not something everyone feels free to discuss. Why is that? And what effect does America's health care system have on how mental health is treated? Rachel Aviv, author of "Strangers to Ourselves," and Daniel Bergner, author of "The Mind and the Moon," have been thinking about these questions.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2022
- By: National Book Festival (u.s.)
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024698238/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2024698238?play=1)