Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

75 reviews

lucy12345's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Terminal illness

Minor: Miscarriage, Grief, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Car accident

ivana's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

lydiavsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

It took me a while to get into but I really loved it when I did. A really beautiful story of a therapist and her experience in that role, as well as being in therapy herself, including some really interesting and emotional case studies of clients. 

I thought there was a perfect balance between some really emotional accounts and funny anecdotes. The whole tone and narration just felt so genuine, and I really loved getting to know the 'characters' and routing for them, as well as the author herself. Loved Wendel, bless him, and Sam the delivery guy warmed my heart.

Big recommend

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Abandonment

jojo_'s review

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Car accident, Death, Mental illness, Child death, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Misogyny

savvylit's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

2.0

This book is a behind-the-scenes look at therapy from both sides of the room. The way that Gottlieb paints a complete portrait of the profession as she experiences it is one of the most compelling aspects of the book.

Ultimately, though, I'm not sure what this book was trying to achieve. Other than the behind the scenes glimpses, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone seemed to be lacking in insight. Unlike other nonfiction that I have enjoyed reading, this book felt disingenuous and had no significant takeaways. Perhaps Gottlieb's past in television is what made her composite patients seem more like exaggerated caricatures than real people. In my opinion, that's what leant this book a consistent trite and overplayed quality. 

Furthermore, at 400 pages, this book was interminable to me. I nearly set it aside for good multiple times. I really think that it was trying to be too many things at once. It was both an autobiography of Gottlieb's life and also an exploration of therapy and the importance of connection. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone would have been much more effective if it had just been about therapy. Mixing her behind-the-scenes takes with tons of background regarding her academic and career choices felt unnecessary and self-indulgent.

I would not recommend this book. Perhaps you would like it if you are intimidated to try therapy yourself and want to know more about the experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Grief, Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, and Medical content

curiousjac's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.75

This book was so hopeful and made me consider exactly what I myself would would want from my therapist. It sees the humanity in even the biggest assholes. It touches you in your pain. It lets you be vulnerable. I recommend this book to anyone who has told someone that "therapy doesn't work for me". I recommend this book to anyone who is afraid to be vulnerable. At it's worst, it's an interesting study of the human condition. At it's best, it will teach you something about yourself.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Cursing, Child death, and Death

yeojinqueen's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Child death, Cursing, Suicide, Terminal illness, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Dementia, and Physical abuse

udari's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Cancer, Chronic illness, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Car accident, and Death of parent

popiloey's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Death, and Grief

laurenzott's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Grief

Moderate: Car accident, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Miscarriage