Lauren Slater was born on March 21,1963 and is an American psychotherapist and writer.
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Lauren Slater is the author of nine books, including Welcome To My Country, Prozac Diary, and Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir.
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Lauren Slater relates how, during Slater's discussion with Harvard University psychologist Jerome Kagan, she recalled how Kagan had suddenly dived under his desk to illustrate a point about free will.
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Lauren Slater wrote that she had repeated Rosenhan's research, in which he trained students to pretend to be mentally ill to gauge the reactions of psychiatric hospitals, by presenting herself at the emergency rooms of multiple hospitals with a single auditory hallucination to see whether she would be admitted as a psychiatric patient.
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Lauren Slater said that she was not admitted but was given prescriptions for antipsychotics and antidepressants.
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Lauren Slater replied through her attorney that she considered her work to be an "anecdote, not systematic research, and certainly not a 'replication' of Rosenhan's study".
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Lauren Slater's attorney accused Spitzer of being involved in a campaign to discredit Lauren Slater's work.
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Lauren Slater writes with evident respect for the drugs that have permitted her to live stably and fruitfully, but she candidly discusses their limitations and side effects as well.
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Lauren Slater describes the key roles played by imagination and empathy in effective psychiatric treatment.
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Author Lidija Haas, in a review for Harper's Magazine, commented, "if Lauren Slater has any discernible bias, it's in favor of human connection".
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Lauren Slater's work has been included in Best American Essays three times.
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In 2006, Lauren Slater was chosen to be Guest Editor of the Best American Essay series.