Welcome to My Country : A Therapist's Memoir of Madness Paperback - 1997
by Lauren Slater
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ally ill patients that "gently unfurls to become a revealing memoir and thoughtful meditation on the therapeutic process itself" ("The New York Times"), brilliant young writer and therapist Lauren Slater brings readers closer to understanding themselves, one another, and the human condition. Targeted mailings.
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- Title Welcome to My Country : A Therapist's Memoir of Madness
- Author Lauren Slater
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Anchor Books
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1997
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0385487398I3N10
- ISBN 9780385487399 / 0385487398
- Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 7.99 x 5.21 x 0.54 in (20.29 x 13.23 x 1.37 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Psychiatry - Philosophy, Slater, Lauren - Philosophy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96029849
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the jacket flap
Lauren Slater, a brilliant writer who is a young therapist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal and professional journey in this remarkable memoir about her work with mental and emotional illness. The territory of the mind and of madness can seem a foreign, even frightening place-until you read "Welcome to My Country.
Writing in a powerful and original voice, Lauren Slater closes the distance between "us" and "them," transporting us into the country of Lenny, Moxi, Oscar, and Marie. She lets us watch as she interacts with and strives to understand patients suffering from mental and emotional distress-the schizophrenic, the depressed, the suicidal. As the young psychologist responds to, reflects on, and re-creates her interactions with the inner realities of the dispossessed, she moves us to a deeper understanding of the complexities of the human mind and spirit. And then, in a stunning final chapter, the psychologist confronts herself, when she is asked to treat a young woman, bulimic and suicidal, who is on the same ward where Slater herself was once such a patient.
Like "An Unquiet Mind, "Listening to Prozac and "Girl, Interrupted, "Welcome to My Country is a beautifully written, captivating, and revealing book, an unusual personal and professional memoir that brings us closer to understanding ourselves, one another, and the human condition.
Writing in a powerful and original voice, Lauren Slater closes the distance between "us" and "them," transporting us into the country of Lenny, Moxi, Oscar, and Marie. She lets us watch as she interacts with and strives to understand patients suffering from mental and emotional distress-the schizophrenic, the depressed, the suicidal. As the young psychologist responds to, reflects on, and re-creates her interactions with the inner realities of the dispossessed, she moves us to a deeper understanding of the complexities of the human mind and spirit. And then, in a stunning final chapter, the psychologist confronts herself, when she is asked to treat a young woman, bulimic and suicidal, who is on the same ward where Slater herself was once such a patient.
Like "An Unquiet Mind, "Listening to Prozac and "Girl, Interrupted, "Welcome to My Country is a beautifully written, captivating, and revealing book, an unusual personal and professional memoir that brings us closer to understanding ourselves, one another, and the human condition.
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Citations
- New York Times, 09/14/1997, Page 44
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1997, Page 97
