Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

by Lori Gottlieb

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Personal Growth & LeadershipPsychology & Mind

Therapists aren't exempt from the problems they treat. After an unexpected breakup, Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist and Atlantic advice columnist, lands on the couch of a therapist she calls Wendell, and you move between her sessions and those of her own clients.

Core ideas
  • Four clients: John is a self-absorbed Hollywood TV writer, and Julie is a young, newly married woman facing a terminal cancer diagnosis.
  • Deadlines and cycles: Rita plans to end her life by her 70th birthday if nothing improves, and Charlotte, in her twenties, keeps cycling through drinking and bad relationships.
  • The same human material: Loss, aging, mortality, belonging and change run through the therapist's own life as much as through her clients' lives.
Published2019
Pages415
ISBN9781328662057
ReadSep 2020

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