Lauren Slater, Author . Norton $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-05095-0
Psychologist Slater's account of 10 of the most influential—and controversial—experimental forays into the mind's inner workings is neither clinical nor dispassionate. Slater (Lying, a Metaphorical Memoir
) is a relentlessly...
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Lauren Slater, Author Random House (NY) $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-45721-3
In the final chapter of Welcome to My Country (1996), an account of her work with schizophrenic patients, psychologist Slater revealed that, she, too, had been institutionalized, and that she saw much of herself in those she counseled. Now she steps
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Lauren Slater, Author Random House (NY) $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-50112-8
If fact is shaded with metaphor, does it become fiction? In a memoir that raises that question, the author of Prozac Diary and Welcome to My Country narrates a life marked by a disease she may or may not actually have. ""I have epilepsy,"" she...
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Lauren Slater. Beacon, $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8070-0173-8
The latest from psychologist and prolific essayist Slater (The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals) is a slender, lyrically voiced collection of her essays, written over time, comprising personal experiences with sex, self-esteem, parenting, mental...
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Lauren Slater. Little, Brown, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-37064-6
Psychologist Slater (Playing House) runs through the checkered history of psychopharmacology and mental illness treatments while sharing her own battle with depression and medication in this ambitious work. Slater begins with psychiatry’s first...
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Lauren Slater, Author, P. Ed. Slater, Author Random House (NY) $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44785-6
A psychologist whose empathy with her patients is tempered by her own bout of treated mental disability takes readers into encounters with her dysfunctional clients. With disarming candor, she allows her voice to mingle with those of her patients--sc
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