Welcome to My Country: A Therapist's Memoir of Madness, (Paperback)

from Y2Ash

Welcome to my Country is a great book that effectively shows what it means to be diagnosed with a mental illness. It is nothing to be treated lightly. To do so would be insensitive. I was quite surprised on the author's use of descriptive language. I am so used to doctors writing being so frank a...

from streamsong

This is psychologist Lauren Slater's first book, a somewhat fictionalized account of her work with the mentally ill. Her empathy and desire to connect with her patients, even those with the most baffling, least treatable forms of mental illness, leads us to a better understanding of these conditi...

from Y2Ash

Welcome to my Country is a great book that effectively shows what it means to be diagnosed with a mental illness. It is nothing to be treated lightly. To do so would be insensitive. I was quite surprised on the author's use of descriptive language. I am so used to doctors writing being so frank a...

from Y2Ash

Welcome to my Country is a great book that effectively shows what it means to be diagnosed with a mental illness. It is nothing to be treated lightly. To do so would be insensitive. I was quite surprised on the author's use of descriptive language. I am so used to doctors writing being so frank...

from TerryWeyna

Lauren Slater has written a number of memoirs, each more interesting than the last. This appears to be her first, and it is apparent that she hasn't quite found her footing yet. Not that the book isn't fascinating nonetheless; it is. It mostly relates Slater's experiences working in a residence f...