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Lauren Slater

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 20 1963
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Lauren Slater is an American psychotherapist and writer.

She is the author of numerous books, including Welcome to My Country, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Opening Skinner’s Box, and Blue Beyond Blue, a collection of short stories. Slater’s most recent book is The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals.

Slater has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them a 2004 National Endowments for the Arts Award, and multiple inclusions in Best American Volumes, and A Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. Slater is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, and Elle, among others. She has been nominated several times for National Magazine Awards in both the Essay and the Profile category.

Slater was a practicing psychotherapist for 11 years before embarking on a full-time writing career. She served as the Clinical and then the Executive Director of AfterCare Services, and under her watch the company grew from a small inner city office to a vibrant outpatient clinic servicing some of Boston’s most socioeconomically stressed population.

After the birth of her daughter, Slater wrote her memoir Love Works Like This to chronicle the agonizing decisions she made relating to her psychiatric illness and her pregnancy. In a 2003 BBC Woman’s Hour radio interview, and a 2005 article in Child Magazine, Slater provides information on depression during pregnancy and the risks to the woman and her baby.

She lives and writes in Harvard, Massachusetts.

Lauren Slater

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 20 1963
Website
Go to Website
Lauren Slater is an American psychotherapist and writer.

She is the author of numerous books, including Welcome to My Country, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Opening Skinner’s Box, and Blue Beyond Blue, a collection of short stories. Slater’s most recent book is The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals.

Slater has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them a 2004 National Endowments for the Arts Award, and multiple inclusions in Best American Volumes, and A Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. Slater is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, and Elle, among others. She has been nominated several times for National Magazine Awards in both the Essay and the Profile category.

Slater was a practicing psychotherapist for 11 years before embarking on a full-time writing career. She served as the Clinical and then the Executive Director of AfterCare Services, and under her watch the company grew from a small inner city office to a vibrant outpatient clinic servicing some of Boston’s most socioeconomically stressed population.

After the birth of her daughter, Slater wrote her memoir Love Works Like This to chronicle the agonizing decisions she made relating to her psychiatric illness and her pregnancy. In a 2003 BBC Woman’s Hour radio interview, and a 2005 article in Child Magazine, Slater provides information on depression during pregnancy and the risks to the woman and her baby.

She lives and writes in Harvard, Massachusetts.

Books from Lauren Slater

Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Best American Essays 2006

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Secret Society of Demolition Writers

3.1/5 ( ratings)

The Best American Essays 2006

4/5 ( ratings)

Love Works Like This: Moving from One Kind of Life to Another

4/5 ( ratings)

Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

4/5 ( ratings)

The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women

4/5 ( ratings)

The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

4/5 ( ratings)

Erwachsene brauchen Märchen

4/5 ( ratings)

Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

4/5 ( ratings)

The Secret Society of Demolition Writers

4/5 ( ratings)

The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women

4/5 ( ratings)

Welcome to My Country

4/5 ( ratings)
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