A Therapist's Memoir of Madness. I picked up this book for a project I'm working on, and couldn't put it down. Astonishing. Unflinching. Six pained portraits of mental illness that read like a novel. With compassion for her patients, Slater brings to words the otherwise inaccessible states of schizophrenia, depression, catatonia, anxiety and bulimia. "We are one," she writes in her concluding sentences of the book, "As people we are always one."