Lauren Slater - Welcome to My Country: Journeys into the World of a Therapist and Her Patients

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 t

Key Information
Authors		Lauren Slater
Nonfiction Category		Medical • Philosophy
Professional Reviews
		Nation: "This is a beautiful book. I can't say that it brought me peace, because there are no happy endings here, but it showed me a more stringent kind of comfort, an active engagement with people whose world is constantly melting....Slater's ethic of linking is the only non-schizoid way for her to live: She is both doctor and patient, and she must never forget it."
Book Editions
		Paperback199August 01, 1997Anchor Books8.5"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.4 lbs.9780385487399