Welcome to My Country by Lauren
Slater
Fearful Redemption
A young psychotherapist and award-winning writer movingly chronicles
her personal and professional experiences in working with mentally and
emotionally ill patients, tracing her responses to, and reflections on, their
plight. Reprint. NYT.
Lauren Slater has guts. We've had decades and decades of first hand
accounts of mental illness by those who have worked with the afflicted, but
Slater is singular in her unwillingness to spare the layman's sensibilities.
Slater's book is a first hand account of her journey through life with a
house full of schizophrenics, some doomed and some just in the reach of
redemption. She herself is driven to the emotional brink trying to bring
something whole out of these irretrievably wounded people. In one scene
she practically breaks down trying to convince a group of schizophrenics
that the imaginary UFO they want to take off in as a group simply isn't
there. She works with a borderline sociopath male chauvinist, every inch
the ruthless alphamale, who brutalizes his girlfriend and in his spare time
watches sadomasochistic pornography films--all symptoms of his
underlying terror of the feminine. Miraculously, despite her disgust with
this guy, she gets somewhere with him.
This is not light reading but necessary reading.
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