Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

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

138 reviews

nikmahie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Loved everything about it. It’s such an honest informative book. I was very invested in the different client stories. And it’s so easy and well written. Loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Pregnancy

cturn's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Car accident

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Suicide, and Alcohol

lmullett22's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Overall this is a great read with a very insightful perspectives. Lori’s stories about her patients and her own therapy experiences were poignant, appropriately paced, and times quite funny as one reflects on their own similar behaviors. I greatly, greatly enjoyed it! Highly recommend for anyone who practices or is in therapy! Or anyone! Please note that as she details some of her clients’ backstories she will discuss their experiences with cancer, death, and abuse. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, and Domestic abuse

morebookspls's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Child death

katewhite77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

One of the most moving books I've ever read

About life death, love and the therapists in between. 

I would recommend this book to anyone curious about or suspicious about the thereputic process as this very funny and extremely moving memoir gives a fascinating insight from both sides of the couch. 

As humans we are all frail but we can be so resistant too. This book shows us how.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Grief

rosies_book_shelf's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

rachelcurrier's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Death, Miscarriage, and Car accident

bookhead420's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Abandonment

velsbooknook's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad

 I was so intrigued by this book! A therapist needs a therapist after a life changing event. I know Lori also just is a normal human being like me and you, but it gave such an interesting point of view to therapy. 
First of all I listened to the audiobook and the narrator, Brittany Pressley did a phenomenal job. It was so easy to follow and while this book sometimes got very dark and heavy it was still very enjoyable to follow. 
I loved Lori's growth throughout the book and it was so exciting to read her thoughts and feelings. The work she did with her patients was inspiring and I very much enjoyed the way she interacted with and cared for them. John and Julie have a special place in my heart and I loved to follow their storylines so much, even though I shed some tears here and there.
The sessions with her therapist Wendell also were so incredibly well done, I simply loved all characters and their stories. 
This book was interesting, beautiful, inspiring and sad. I went to therapy last summer and while listening to the audiobook I realised how much it helped me. I was just talking to my husband yesterday that my therapist gave me the necessary tools to help with my anxiety and I'm doing so good right now. 
I feel like that is a book I maybe want to get a physical copy of someday and reread because there is so much knowledge and beauty in those pages. If you like this kind of memoir I highly recommend picking it up! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

lenex's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, and Death

Das Buch ist gut, wichtig und warmherzig und ich bin froh, dass es auf dem Markt ist und sich gut verkauft. Ich habe mir aber mehr erwartet. Inhaltlich habe ich nichts auszusetzen, es fühlte sich nur immer wieder langatmig an. Mehr Struktur hätte dem Text gut getan. Das Buch verfolgt verschiedene Stränge: Die Therapiesitzungen von vier Patient*innen, den Weg der Autorin zur Psychotherapeutin und die Therapiesitzungen der Autorin bei einem anderen Psychotherapeuten. Zwischendurch werden immer wieder allgemeine Fakten und Erklärungen zur Psychotherapie, verschiedene bekannte Theorien oder Konzepte (z.B. von Freud, Frankl, Yalow oder Erikson) sowie Erinnerungen der Autorin an verschiedene Patient*innen eingewoben. Grundsätzlich waren alle Stränge interessant und hatte ihre Daseinsberechtigung. Für mich war das jedoch etwas viel und zu durcheinander. Ich hätte das Ganze lieber kürzer, kompakter und geordneter gelesen.