Welcome to My Country
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ISBN: 0679447857 / Publisher: Random House, January 1996
Provides a look inside the world of the schizophrenic, the suicidal, and other troubled individuals, in a personal study that chronicles the author's work with patients suffering from mental and emotional distress
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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, 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.
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