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Welcome
to the Official Website
of Lauren Slater.
Lauren
Slater is a psychologist and writer who lives in Massachusetts
and New Hampshire. She is the author of six books, including
Welcome To My Country (1996),
Prozac Diary (1998), Lying:
A Metaphorical Memoir (2000), and Opening
Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the 20th
Century (2004). She was Guest Editor of Best
American Essays, 2006.
Slater
is a contributing Editor to Elle Magazine and a frequent
contributor to publications that range from The New York
Times to The Missouri Review. She often writes about psychology,
mental illness and women's health. She graduated from Brandeis
University with a Bachelor's Degree in British and American
Literature. She earned a Master's Degree in psychology from
Harvard University and a Doctorate in psychology from Boston
University. Slater was a 2002-03 Knight Science Journalism
Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has
two children, two dogs, two houses (one of which was converted
from a chicken coop), two computers, two cats, and one husband.
She renovates stained glass windows in her "free"
time.
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