A review by crowyhead
Welcome to My Country: A Therapist's Memoir of Madness by Lauren Slater

4.0

This is a fascinating and often moving account of a therapist's work with her clients, particularly the schizophrenic residents of a group home. The most moving chapter deals with her work with a woman who has borderline personality disorder and is also bulimic; treating her entails going back to the hospital where Slater herself was hospitalized multiple times for the same disorders, and the encounter is gripping and ultimately gorgeous.