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3.23 AVERAGE
3.23 AVERAGE
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
As a school counselor, I wish I could recommend this to my high school students or to anyone with little to no experience in the mental health realm who has the question “*Why* try therapy?” Personally, I found Baek’s reflections outside of therapeutic transcriptions to be the most insightful piece.
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
I think the therapist was great- I found myself tagging a lot of lines that I related to and felt insightful. However I felt confused by the format of the book itself. The “end note” by the therapist with the epilogue made me think it was over but then the micro-essays… I largely skimmed them, as I didn’t know what to do with the information now that the therapy was “over”.
challenging
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
woof. i don’t know if it was a bad translation (if it was, the author is owed a serious apology) or, if it was just a diary not meant for publication, but this would have been a DNF if it was not so short. tedious, poorly written, and an utter waste of time. props to the author for being vulnerable, but maybe she should have waited until she actually came to valuable conclusions about her life.
This is exactly what therapy is like. Working out what you think, why you think it and admitting some stuff were a little bit ashamed of
emotional
hopeful
reflective
tense
fast-paced
I could see this being an incredibly divisive book. It can sometimes feel plodding and repetitive, and readers may not enjoy the transcript structure of it. However, for me, it felt like being invited into an intimate therapy session where the author was able to verbalise my thought patterns and anxieties almost to a T. She put words to things I’ve experienced my whole life but didn’t quite know how to phrase it. The psychiatrist tends toward a Freudian, psychodynamic lens, which is not my preferred psychological approach, but there is a post-script in which the psychiatrist addresses how they’ve learnt and adapted since this book.
Overall, I loved the blunt, straightforward writing style, and it felt like a glimpse into my own brain without having to write it myself.
Overall, I loved the blunt, straightforward writing style, and it felt like a glimpse into my own brain without having to write it myself.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
a new favorite, would love to give this a reread every year <3