![]() ![]() This is a fascinating, monumentally flawed, book. She lives and writes in Harvard, Massachusetts. 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 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.Īfter 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. Slater was a practicing psychotherapist for 11 years before embarking on a full-time writing career. ![]() She has been nominated several times for National Magazine Awards in both the Essay and the Profile category. Slater is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, and Elle, among others. 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’s most recent book is The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals. 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. ![]() Lauren Slater (born March 21, 1963) is an American psychotherapist and writer. ![]()
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