Book Bearings
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
- 432 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 2019
- 18 editions
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1 About this book
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed is a book by Lori Gottlieb, published in 2019. It is a memoir where Gottlieb portrays 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.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Biography
- Psychology
- Personal Memoirs
- Self-help
- Happiness
- Family relationships
- Love & Romance
- Biography & Memoir
2 What to expect
A therapist's memoir with two sides: after a breakup knocks her flat, she starts seeing a therapist herself, while continuing to treat her own patients. Their stories are told alongside hers, with plain explanations of how therapy works and what it can and cannot do. It is funny, warm and easy to read, built like a set of interlocking stories, and some of those stories are very sad.
Good for readers who want: an inside look at therapy, true stories of change, and a warm, funny memoir.
3 About Lori Gottlieb
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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