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Title: Welcome to My Country by Lauren Slater ISBN: 0-385-48739-8 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 14 July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.74 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Book
Comment: The book was fasinating reading about the dynamics between a therapist (with problems )trying to help her patients with similar difficulties. This set-up distinguishes Welcome to My Country from other, author-centered-self indulgent books (like PROZAC NATION). I really felt like I could relate to this author. She was so successful in her career yet she simply had a few things missing in her life (I'll leave those to you to figure out). I have read many books about women with mental problems but this is one of my favorites. It is simpler than PROZAC NATION but I think just as effective in terms of remembering characters and plot several months after you finish the book. The characters are not superficial. Not everybody would like this book. Rather, it is for the reader who likes deep literature and is not afraid of reading about all kinds of emotional problams. Moreover, much of Lauren's life revolves around pychology, so one should not read this book unless they love that topic, or are in need of an emotional story. I highly recommend this to anyone in the mental health or helping professions.
Rating: 4
Summary: A look inside
Comment: Ms. Slater's portrayal of life in the mental health system is fascinating and poingnant. As a counselor myself, I could relate to her struggles with the individual clients. Her candor and self-disclosure, not only about her therapeutic process but her own struggles with mental illness, makes this book not only a good clinical tool, but a great read. I recommend this book to anyone interested in pursuing a career in mental health, or to people who are currently in therapy who want to know what it's like on the other side of the couch.
Rating: 5
Summary: an eloquent memoir
Comment: When I first read this book, I was training to be a psychotherapist, and to make sense of the new feelings and experiences associated with that role. I loved her attitude toward her clients--that it is a privilege to know your clients and to relate to them, that "the border between the helper and the one who is helped is always blurry." I highly recommend this book for counselors, counselors in training, clients undergoing therapy, and for those who enjoy memoirs. I have read this book many times--I appreciate how well written it is and how the author uses her own psychiatric history as a tool to understand others' experiences. Wonderful book!
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Title: Prozac Diary by Lauren Slater ISBN: 0140263942 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir by Lauren Slater ISBN: 014200006X Publisher: Penguin Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century by Lauren Slater ISBN: 0393050955 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 15 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh by Dennis Patrick Slattery ISBN: 0791443825 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Love's Executioner : & Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom ISBN: 0060958340 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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