Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
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"An irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition." (Kirkus, starred review)
"Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing." (Katie Couric)
"This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book." (Arianna Huffington, founder, Huffington Post and founder & CEO, Thrive Global)
"Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book." (Susan Cain, New York Times best-selling author of Quiet)
From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world - where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).
One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives - a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a 20-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys - she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.
With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
In Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb weaves together the stories of her patients - a TV producer grappling with heartbreak, a young newlywed struggling with a hidden secret, a thirty-five-year-old man who loses his wife and newborn baby - with her own experience as a patient in therapy.
Gottlieb's honest and insightful account of her own therapy journey provides a unique perspective on the therapist-patient relationship, and her candid portrayal of her patients' struggles shines a light on the universal human experiences of love, loss, grief, and the search for meaning.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is a compelling and thought-provoking read that will leave you with a fresh understanding of therapy, mental health, and the human condition.
Praise for Maybe You Should Talk to Someone:
"Lori Gottlieb's honest and insightful memoir about her own therapy journey is a must-read for anyone who has ever struggled with mental health issues. Her candid portrayal of her patients' struggles shines a light on the universal human experiences of love, loss, grief, and the search for meaning."
- The New York Times Book Review
"Gottlieb's writing is clear, concise, and engaging, and her insights into the human condition are both profound and moving. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is a powerful and important book that will stay with you long after you finish reading it."
- The Washington Post
"A must-read for anyone interested in psychology, therapy, or the human condition. Gottlieb's writing is honest, insightful, and thought-provoking, and her stories will stay with you long after you finish reading them."
- NPR
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