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In this powerful and provocative new memoir, awardwinning author lauren slater forces readers to redraw the boundary between what we know as fact and what we believe through the creation of our own personal fictions. As public awareness of antidepressant medication surged in the 1990s, lauren slaters prozac diary became the quintessential autopathography, documenting her life with major depression and her dramatic cure with the wonderdrug prozac. Lying a metaphorical memoir introduction to literature i. One humorous and one serious rejoinder to slater article. Counterdiagnosis and the critical medical humanities. Free download the candida albican yeast free cookbook. Borrowing from and expanding margaret prices concept of the counterdiagnostic as a tool that challenges a readers urge to explain, clarify and contain a narrator with mental disabilities, i will read susanna kaysens girl, interrupted 1993 and lauren slaters lying. The memoir ends both with her recognition of the value of narrating and with a silent fall to the snowy ground, as the nuns taught her to do, in the knowledge that the sense of falling rather than the material certainty of landing is all that is finally, reliably, real. Several of slaters books deal with mental health issues and are somewhat autobiographical in nature. How good nutrition can help fight the epidemic o ebook free essential anatomy. A metaphorical memoir in a memoir which refuses to be pinned down, lauren slater attempts to explain her mother and her past through events which may or may not be true.
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I am as tough, as skilled and certainly as intelligent as the other three but a deficit in years deems me the undisputed runt. She confuses fact and fiction even though it is a memoir and thus creates a convoluted tale of herself where she may or may not be epileptic. She is the author of numerous books, including welcome to my country, lying. Great psychological experiments of the twentieth century. Lauren certainly does break some silences in this memoir. Lying chronicles the doctors, the tests, the seizures, the family embarrassments, even as it explores a sensitive childs illness as both metaphor and a means of attentiongettinga human beings susceptibility to malady, and to storytelling as an act of healing and as part of the quest for love. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Slater herself suffers from mental illness, as chronicled in several other of her books such as, more recently, prozac diary.
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