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Part memoir, part glimpse into the profession, the author writes about a difficult time in her professional and personal life. The dual nature of the book enables Gottlieb to show her world as both a therapist and someone receiving therapy. Gottlieb explores five patients, including herself, and their different scenarios and viewpoints on life.
About the author
Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and
New York Times bestselling author who writes the weekly Dear Therapist advice column for the
Atlantic, where she is also a contributing editor. She has written for the
New York Times Magazine and has appeared on
Today,
Good Morning America,
CBS This Morning, CNN, and NPR. She lives in Los Angeles. Learn more at LoriGottlieb.com or by following her @LoriGottlieb1 on Twitter.
Summary
A TIME MAGAZINE MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR
The bestselling book that reveals what your therapist is really thinking.
Therapist Lori Gottlieb takes us behind the scenes of her practice — where her patients are looking for answers, and so is she.
She recounts her experiences with her own therapist, Wendell, and explores the inner lives of her patients — a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed with a terminal illness, a depressed senior citizen, and a self-destructive twenty-something — realising that the questions they are struggling with are often the same questions she is asking herself.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone offers a rare and candid insight into a profession that is conventionally bound with rules and secrecy.
