Lauren Slater – författare
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18 produkter
Welcome to My Country
E-bok, 2012
117 kr
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The world of the schizophrenic, the depressed, the suicidal can seem a foreign, frightening place. Now, a brilliant writer/psychologist takes readers on a mesmerizing journey into this enigmatic world. As readers interact through Slater with patients Lenny, Moxi, Oscar, and Marie, they come to …
Lying
A Metaphorical Memoir
E-bok, 2012
236 kr
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"The beauty of Lauren Slater''s prose is shocking," said Newsday about Welcome to My Country, and now, in this powerful and provocative new book, Slater brilliantly explores a mind, a body, and a life under siege. Diag-nosed as a child with a strange illness, brought up in a family given to fantasy …
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds
Häftad, 2019
282 kr
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Opening Skinner's Box
Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2005
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
164 kr
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Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, Slater takes us from a deep empathy with Stanley Milgram's obedience subjects to a funny and disturbing re-creation of an experiment questioning the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. Previously described only in academic …
Prozac Diary
E-bok, 2011
260 kr
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The author of the acclaimed Welcome to My Country describes in this provocative and funny memoir the ups and downs of living on Prozac for ten years, and the strange adjustments she had to make to living "normal life." Today millions of people take Prozac, but Lauren Slater was one of the first. In …
$60,000 Dog
My Life with Animals
E-bok, 2012
171 kr
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A stunning new book about the role of animals in our lives, by a popular and acclaimed writer From the time she is nine years old, biking to the farmland outside her suburban home, where she discovers a disquieting world of sleeping cows and a “Private Way” full of the wondrous and creepy creatures …
$60,000 Dog
My Life with Animals
Häftad, 2013
144 kr
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A stunning new book about the role of animals in our lives, by a popular and acclaimed writer From the time she is nine years old, biking to the farmland outside her suburban home, where she discovers a disquieting world of sleeping cows and a “Private Way” full of the wondrous and creepy creatures …
The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women
Av Lauren Slater, Amy Banks m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
454 kr
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Opening Skinner's Box
Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
E-bok, 2016
155 kr
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A century can be understood in many ways - in terms of its inventions, its crimes or its art. In Opening Skinner''s Box , Lauren Slater sets out to investigate the twentieth century through a series of ten fascinating, witty and sometimes shocking accounts of its key psychological experiments. …
Drugs That Changed Our Minds
The history of psychiatry in ten treatments
Inbunden, 2018
208 kr
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'Poignant and lyrical...Slater's experience makes her a convincing travel guide into the history, creation and future of psychotropics.' – The New York Times Book Review A groundbreaking and revelatory story of the psychotropic drugs that have shaped our minds and our reality. As our approach to …
Drugs That Changed Our Minds
The history of psychiatry in ten treatments
E-bok, 2018
173 kr
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'The messy history and brave future of psychotropic drugs' – O Magazine 'Vivid and thought-provoking' – Harper's Magazine 'Ambitious...Slater's depictions of madness are terrifying and fascinating' – USA Today 'Vigorous research and intimate reflection…highly compelling' – Kirkus As our approach to …
Cutia lui Skinner
Mari experimente psihologice ale secolului XX
E-bok, 2020
77 kr
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Scrisă într-un stil colocvial și antrenant, cu personaje și intrigă, și aducând o notă personală atractivă, cartea ne invită în lumea psihologiei experimentale, locul în care se demonstrează riguros cum funcționează mintea umană și creierul. Slater consideră cele zece experimente psihologice alese …
Blue Beyond Blue
Extraordinary Tales for Ordinary Dilemmas
Häftad, 2006
166 kr
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Mermaids, seal women, little girls born of eggs, old men born of prematurely aged parents, and other strange creatures populate award-winning author Lauren Slater's stories of magic, psychology, pain, and release. Slater depicts the modern-day psycho-pharmaceutical industry and our ongoing …
