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

by Lori Gottlieb

Book Overview

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"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 of-fice 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 twenty-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 rev-olutionary in its candor, offering a deeply per-sonal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly reveal-ing 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1328662055
• ISBN13: 9781328662057
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

I bought everyone I love a copy

My all time favorite book! Shows the humanity in others

A new favorite.

This book in incredible. I heard Lori on a podcast and was so captivated by her, I picked up this book right away. I absolutely loved it. It made me giggle, it made me sob, it really affected me. Highly recommend this one.

Great storytelling.

Following Lori’s story alongside her patients was an effective way to demonstrate her learning and transformation. With tidbits about the history of therapy and psychology strewn throughout I felt like the book didn’t become too “self-helpy,” like it could have. Great for laughing and crying both.

Changed me!

This book was excellent! It's raw and honest. The stories are very unique and intimate but you relate to every character on one distinct common thread and the main idea; humanity. For me this book dives into what being a human being feels like. It's powerful and moving. I highly recommend it to everyone!