Lauren Slater Knihy

Nejvýznamnější psychologické experimenty 20. století. Americká psycholožka Lauren Slater nás ve své knize na pomezí odborného a beletristického textu seznamuje se zásadními psychologickými experimenty 20. století. Snaží se vystihnout osobnost jednotlivých badatelů. Hledá účastníky studií, kontaktuje příbuzné a přátele slavných vědců. Také se některé pokusy snaží zopakovat nebo alespoň podrobně pochopit jejich průběh a okolnosti. Uvažuje o etice výzkumů a o jejich důsledcích pro vědu, praxi i chápání lidské mysli. Její reportážní styl pojímá dějiny psychologie jako soubor napínavých příběhů, které popisují, čeho všeho je člověk – badatel i testovaný jedinec – schopen. Lauren Slater vystudovala literaturu a psychologii. Je autorkou sedmi knih, v nichž popularizuje psychologická témata, a nositelkou několika literárních cen.

Nejvýznamnější psychologické experimenty dvacátého století. Kniha americké psycholožky seznamuje českého čtenáře se zásadními psychologickými experimenty 20. století. Setkáváme se zde se Stanley Milgramem, který přiměl dobrovolné účastníky experimentu udílet druhému člověku smrtící elektrické šoky, s Davidem Rosenhanem, který se, ač byl zdráv, nechal experimentálně přijmout do psychiatrické léčebny, se skupinou sektářů, očekávajících přílet mimozemšťanů a konec světa, s průkopníky lobotomie a dalšími. Autorka některé experimenty po letech sama opakuje. Uvažuje také o tom, do jaké míry souvisí laboratorní prostředí s reálným životem. Slaterová má nesporný literární talent, dokáže zaujmout a její často až napínavá kniha v nás vyvolává otázku, čeho všeho je člověk schopen - v dobrém i ve zlém. Přeložil a doslov napsal Jan Kosek Vydání 1. 978-80-7203-985-2 (Argo)

“Capacious and rigorous . . . Blue Dreams , like all good histories of medicine, reveals healing to be art as much as science.” –Parul Sehgal, New York Times “Terrific.” –@MichaelPollan “Ambitious…Slater’s depictions of madness are terrifying and fascinating.” — USA Today “A vivid and thought- provoking synthesis.” — Harper’s A groundbreaking and revelatory history of psychotropic drugs, from “a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer” ( Washington Post ) . Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first began prescribing them, not even their creators understand exactly how or why these drugs work–or don’t work–on what ails our brains. Blue Dreams offers the explosive story of the discovery and development of psychiatric medications, as well as the science and the people behind their invention, told by a riveting writer and psychologist who shares her own experience with the highs and lows of psychiatric drugs. Lauren Slater’s revelatory account charts psychiatry’s journey from its earliest drugs, Thorazine and lithium, up through Prozac and other major antidepressants of the present. Blue Dreams also chronicles experimental treatments involving Ecstasy, magic mushrooms, the most cutting-edge memory drugs, placebos, and even neural implants. In her thorough analysis of each treatment, Slater asks three fundamental questions: how was the drug born, how does it work (or fail to work), and what does it reveal about the ailments it is meant to treat? Fearlessly weaving her own intimate experiences into comprehensive and wide-ranging research, Slater narrates a personal history of psychiatry itself. In the process, her powerful and groundbreaking exploration casts modern psychiatry’s ubiquitous wonder drugs in a new light, revealing their ability to heal us or hurt us, and proving an indispensable resource not only for those with a psychotropic prescription but for anyone who hopes to understand the limits of what we know about the human brain and the possibilities for future treatments.416

A fascinating narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs and the way in which they have shaped us from the author of Opening Skinner's Box.

"Slater explores a mind, a body and a life under siege. Diagnosed as a child with a strange illness, brought up in a family given to fantasy and ambition, Lauren Slater developed seizures, auras, neurological disturbances - and an ability to lie. In Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Slater blends a coming-of-age story with an electrifying exploration of the nature of truth, and of whether it is ever possible to tell - or to know - the facts about a self, a human being, a life."--BOOK JACKET.

Lauren Slater, a brilliant writer who is a young therapist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal and professional journey in this remarkable memoir about her work with mental and emotional illness. The territory of the mind and of madness can seem a foreign, even frightening place-until you read Welcome to My Country. Writing in a powerful and original voice, Lauren Slater closes the distance between "us" and "them," transporting us into the country of Lenny, Moxi, Oscar, and Marie. She lets us watch as she interacts with and strives to understand patients suffering from mental and emotional distress-the schizophrenic, the depressed, the suicidal. As the young psychologist responds to, reflects on, and re-creates her interactions with the inner realities of the dispossessed, she moves us to a deeper understanding of the complexities of the human mind and spirit. And then, in a stunning final chapter, the psychologist confronts herself, when she is asked to treat a young woman, bulimic and suicidal, who is on the same ward where Slater herself was once such a patient. Like An Unquiet Mind, Listening to Prozac and Girl, Interrupted, Welcome to My Country is a beautifully written, captivating, and revealing book, an unusual personal and professional memoir that brings us closer to understanding ourselves, one another, and the human condition.

Explores the discovery, invention, science, and people behind today's major psychotropic drugs, from the earliest, Thorazine and Lithium, through Prozac and Ecstasy, to today's most cutting-edge memory drugs and neural implants

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. Starting with the founder of modern scientific experimentation, B.F. Skinner, Slater traces the evolution of the last hundred years' most pressing concerns - free will, authoritarianism, violence, conformity and morality. Previously buried in academic textbooks, these often daring experiments are now seen in their full context and told as stories, rich in plot, wit and character.

In 1988, at age 26, Lauren Slater lived alone in a basement apartment in Cambridge, depressed, suicidal, unemployed. Ten years later, she is a psychologist running her own clinic, an award-winning writer, and happily married. The transformation in her life was brought about by Prozac. Prozac Diary is Lauren Slater's incisive account of a life restored to productivity, creativity, and love. When she wakes up one morning and finds that her demons no longer have a hold on her, Slater struggles with the strange state of being well after a lifetime of craziness. Yet this is no hymn to a miracle pharmaceutical. It is a frankly ambivalent quest for the truth of self behind an ongoing reliance on a drug. Slater also addresses Prozac's notorious "poop-out" effect and its devastating attack on her libido. This is the first memoir to reflect on long-term Prozac use, and reviewers agree that no one has written about Prozac with such beauty, honesty, and insight.

"Slater explores the fierce bonds she has formed with various animals ... finding that as even those who outfit their Pomeranians in rain boots and parkas well know, what really matters are the emotions these beasts evoke."--Allison P. Davis, Elle --Book Jacket