Welcome to My Country A Therapist's Memoir of Madness

Name: Welcome to My Country A Therapist's Memoir of Madness
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ISBN: 9780385487399

ISBN-10: 0385487398

ISBN-13: 9780385487399

Edition: N/A

Authors: Lauren Slater

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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, 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,…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/14/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.17" wide x 7.96" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

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