Welcome to my Country: A Therapist's Memoir of Madness - Hardcover

Slater, Lauren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241136385 ISBN 13: 9780241136386

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 1996

Synopsis

The author of this book is an award-winning writer/psychologist who works with schizophrenic and psychotic patients at a clinic in Boston. In this book she confronts the problems and strivings of six different patients, culminating with a turn inwards in which she becomes the subject of her own analysis (Slater herself suffered from psychologicial disorders as a teenager). Ultimately, Slater is less concerned with the brain's chemical eccentricities as such, as with the human dilemmas that stem from them. This is an account of both her patients' and her own struggle to accept and to overcome.

About this title

About the Author:

Lauren Slater lives in Massachusetts. She is the winner of the 1993 New Letters Literary Award in creative non-fiction and of the 1994 Missouri Review Award. This is her first book.

From the Inside Flap:

the schizophrenic, the depressed, the suicidal can seem a foreign, frightening place. Now, a brilliant writer/psychologist takes readers on a mesmerizing journey into this enigmatic world. As readers interact through Slater with patients Lenny, Moxi, Oscar, and Marie, they come to understand more about the human mind and spirit. First serial to Harper's.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0241136385
• ISBN 13: 9780241136386
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224