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

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Lauren Slater, a brilliant author who is a young therapist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal and professional journey on 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 be aware patients affected by 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. After which, in a stunning final chapter, the psychologist confronts herself, when she is asked to treat a young woman, bulimic and suicidal, who is at the same ward where Slater herself used to be once the sort of patient.

Like An Unquiet Mind, Listening to Prozac and Girl, Interrupted, Welcome to My Country is a beautifully written, captivating, and revealing book, an extraordinary personal and professional memoir that brings us closer to understanding ourselves, one any other, and the human condition.

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