Prozac Diary chronicles the life of year-old Lauren Slater who became one of the first takers of a brand new drug, Prozac. She writes not so much about the actual drug (though she does talk /5(3). Ten years later, she is a psychologist running her own clinic, an award-winning writer, and happily married. The transformation in her life was brought about by Prozac. Prozac Diary is Lauren Slater's incisive account of a life restored to productivity, creativity, and love. When she wakes up one morning and finds that her demons no 5/5(5). · A perceptive and articulate young psychologist's revealing memoir of ten years on Prozac, with all its blessings and curses. If Slater's first book, empathetic stories about her patients, Welcome to My Country (), was remarkable for its self-revelations, this one is even more so.
Prozac Diary is Lauren Slater's incisive account of a life restored to productivity, crea. In , at age 26, Lauren Slater lived alone in a basement apartment in Cambridge, depressed, suicidal, unemployed. Ten years later, she is a psychologist running her own clinic, an award-winning writer, and happily married. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for PROZAC DIARY By Lauren Slater at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Lauren Slater (born Ma) is an American psychotherapist and writer. She is the author of nine books, including Welcome To My Country (), Prozac Diary (), and Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir (). Her book Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century, a description of psychology experiments "narrated as stories," has drawn both praise.
In Prozac Diary, a rich and beautifully written memoir, Slater describes what it is like to experience the heady high of Prozac's bright flare, to spend most of your life feeling crazy and then to find yourself in the strange state of feeling well. Interweaving the chronicle of her cure with glimpses of the events and emotional turmoil that led her to embrace comforts of "being ill"even as a young girl, she recounts the difficulty and compromise that accompany her return to health, the grief. Prozac Diary is Lauren Slater's incisive account of a life restored to productivity, creativity, and love. When she wakes up one morning and finds that her demons no longer have a hold on her, Slater struggles with the strange state of being well after a lifetime of craziness. Ten years later, she is a psychologist running her own clinic, an award-winning writer, and happily married. The transformation in her life was brought about by Prozac. Prozac Diary is Lauren Slater's incisive account of a life restored to productivity, creativity, and love. When she wakes up one morning and finds that her demons no.
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