We read about how therapists are trained, how they learn, how their lifestyle changes due to their profession, and how they do their best to help their patients. The book gives us behind-the-scenes information on therapy. It also feels like the book is initiating the termination process with us, letting us go slowly. And at the end of the book, we read about the termination process in therapy. Towards the end of the book, we have enough compound knowledge to take the book's words to our real lives. We get insights and advice into various types of behaviours. Throughout the book, we go through highs and lows with all five of them. In the beginning, we are introduced to the author and four patients who started seeing her recently.

It is slow and may not be revolutionary in the beginning but it impacts you as you continue. When I first started the book, I was told that reading the book is a little like going to therapy. Personal, revealing, funny, and wise, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone opens a rare window onto a world that is most often bound by secrecy, offering an illuminating tour of a profoundly private process.Ĭontent warnings: Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident (past), Child death (past), Death of parent (past), Domestic violence (mentioned), Grief, Mental health, Miscarriage (mentioned), Profanity, Suicidal ideation my review Interspersed with the stories of her clients are her own therapy sessions, as Gottlieb goes in search of the hidden roots of a devastating and life-changing event.

Over the course of a year, they all make progress.īut Gottlieb is not just a therapist - she’s also a patient who's on a journey of her own. And there’s John, a narcissistic television producer, who frankly just seems to be a bit of a jerk.

There’s the struggling new parents the older woman who feels she has nothing to live for the self-destructive young alcoholic and the terminally ill 35-year-old newlywed. Meet Lori Gottlieb, an insightful and compassionate therapist whose clients present with all kinds of problems.

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