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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: a Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb
4.38 AVERAGE
10.9k reviews for:
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: a Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb
4.38 AVERAGE
3.5 rounded up. I really enjoyed the beginning but didn't love the ending as much. It was interesting to get more context about what goes into therapy.
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
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slow-paced
This book was very relatable, funny and real! Told by a therapist (with experience in show writing too, enjoyable tidbit!) with stories of her own patients and herself as a patient, this book humanised the need to seek help for your mental wellbeing and demonstrated that every person needs it. Although it is non-fiction, the “characters” were so loveable and the way the story was told with each “character” strewn throughout the book certainly kept me wanting to know more about how they ended up there.
I remember one quote in particular that went something like “perfect is the enemy of good” which was a quote that really struck a chord with me. I think this book has something for everyone, I have recommended this to other people and my Mum is already reading it and texting me about it.
I remember one quote in particular that went something like “perfect is the enemy of good” which was a quote that really struck a chord with me. I think this book has something for everyone, I have recommended this to other people and my Mum is already reading it and texting me about it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Suicidal thoughts
Great book to help normalize and destigmatize therapy.
I've read a decent amount of self help books and books about happiness so there's not really anything I'm getting out of this book that I haven't already read about in a different format.
I just don't really click with the author so I find the chapters focused on her sessions with Wendell to be too long and I don't really want to read them anymore. But it'd be cheating to skip those chapters, right?
The writing is good, though. I feel like this is a good book to introduce someone to things commonly said in self help and books on happiness, but if you've already read a bunch of that stuff then this prob isn't going to introduce anything new.
I just don't really click with the author so I find the chapters focused on her sessions with Wendell to be too long and I don't really want to read them anymore. But it'd be cheating to skip those chapters, right?
The writing is good, though. I feel like this is a good book to introduce someone to things commonly said in self help and books on happiness, but if you've already read a bunch of that stuff then this prob isn't going to introduce anything new.
One of the only non-fiction books that I've read from cover to cover. I thought Lori Gottlieb did an excellent job in outlining the nuances of therapy -- sitting on both sides of the couch. I enjoyed the wide range of emotions experienced from tears to laughter. Thank you for broadening my range of books enjoyed!
In a sliding doors version of my life I’d have gone to ASU and studied Psychology instead of Pepperdine to study theatre... and this book reminded me of all the reasons why I thought the only thing outside of theatre I’d want to dedicate my life to is clinical psych... so many stories and even random vocabulary or psych principles brought me right back to my AP class in high school with one of my favorite teachers of all time- so maybe my rating is a little biased given all the emotions running high, but I loved it. Highly recommend.
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I went into this thinking it was nonfiction, and it wasn't until halfway through that I realized this was in fact fiction, written by someone with a Hollywood background who knows how to tell a great story (and also happens to be a therapist). I feel like I really embraced this book once I was able to frame it as fiction, even though I feel like I got a lot of insight into therapy from the practitioner perspective.
I think sometimes she's too general and does readers a disservice by not talking more about different types of therapy, making it clear she isn't speaking for all therapists. I'm dying to ask the therapists in my life what they think of it. Her personal story didn't resonate with me and memoir isn't my genre of choice, but I was very moved by her patients. And I think if this book does anything to lessen the stigma and get people into therapy to do the work, (which, given it's popularity, I think it has) then it's a huge win.
I think sometimes she's too general and does readers a disservice by not talking more about different types of therapy, making it clear she isn't speaking for all therapists. I'm dying to ask the therapists in my life what they think of it. Her personal story didn't resonate with me and memoir isn't my genre of choice, but I was very moved by her patients. And I think if this book does anything to lessen the stigma and get people into therapy to do the work, (which, given it's popularity, I think it has) then it's a huge win.
I really enjoyed this memoir by Los Angeles based psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb, who shares her experience as both a therapist and a patient in therapy. Her writing is very conversational and I like the way the book moves back and forth between Gottlieb’s life and time in therapy, as well as the sessions with a handful of clients over a period of time.
I love hearing about others’ career paths, so I especially enjoyed learning how Gottlieb came to be a therapist. After earning an undergrad degree in English she worked as a writer in Hollywood. It was her work on the 90’s TV series "ER" that sparked her interest in people’s stories and well-being, leading her to start medical school and eventually to train as a psychotherapist.
Gottlieb, mid-career and middle-age, had an unexpected break-up with the man she thought she would marry. Blindsided by this, she writes of crying for days at a time and struggling to make sense of the end of the relationship. She talks frankly about her work in therapy and how she moves toward greater self-awareness.
Gottlieb’s book demystifies therapy. She offers insight into the process of therapy, how therapists train and what they consider when working with clients, and, as a patient herself, what the experience feels like from the client side. It is an open and thoughtful take on mental health, self-care and emotional wellbeing.
I love hearing about others’ career paths, so I especially enjoyed learning how Gottlieb came to be a therapist. After earning an undergrad degree in English she worked as a writer in Hollywood. It was her work on the 90’s TV series "ER" that sparked her interest in people’s stories and well-being, leading her to start medical school and eventually to train as a psychotherapist.
Gottlieb, mid-career and middle-age, had an unexpected break-up with the man she thought she would marry. Blindsided by this, she writes of crying for days at a time and struggling to make sense of the end of the relationship. She talks frankly about her work in therapy and how she moves toward greater self-awareness.
Gottlieb’s book demystifies therapy. She offers insight into the process of therapy, how therapists train and what they consider when working with clients, and, as a patient herself, what the experience feels like from the client side. It is an open and thoughtful take on mental health, self-care and emotional wellbeing.