Welcome to My Country: A Therapist's Memoir of Madness

Welcome to My Country: A Therapist's Memoir of Madness

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.
Country USA
Brand Anchor Books
Manufacturer Anchor
Binding Paperback
Color Silver
ReleaseDate 1997-07-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385487399

Country	USA
Brand	Anchor Books
Manufacturer	Anchor
Binding	Paperback
Color	Silver
ReleaseDate	1997-07-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780385487399

Welcome to My Country: A Therapist's Memoir of Madness

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