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4.38 AVERAGE
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This was good. I will say I have noticed a trend between the style of writing that journalists use when writing about life and all of its wonderful roller coasters. (This book reminded me a little of Dolly Alderton’s). The character arches were fun to read about and this was the perfect book for the bus rides in the morning. Her writing was very comforting and easy to follow along. Throughout the book she also peppered in a few key psychologists and their main frames which I thought was quite good.
Few quotes I want to keep here:
“how his grasp of exquisite pain is what makes him such a powerful writer”
“Every person you’ve been close to lives on somewhere inside you. Your past lovers, your parents, your friends, people both alive and dead (symbolically or literally)—all of them evoke memories, conscious or not”
“Because pain abates but doesn’t vanish.”
Few quotes I want to keep here:
“how his grasp of exquisite pain is what makes him such a powerful writer”
“Every person you’ve been close to lives on somewhere inside you. Your past lovers, your parents, your friends, people both alive and dead (symbolically or literally)—all of them evoke memories, conscious or not”
“Because pain abates but doesn’t vanish.”
I am having troubles figuring out if I enjoyed this book or not. There are things that really bugged me like her glossing over Rita's reaction to her first husband's abuse and not talking about the cycle of abuse as well as why it is so difficult to leave. How her reaction of leaving the room and dissociating in itself is a trauma reaction. I like how she shows why it is important for therapist to also see a therapist to balance out their work and home life, so they don't affect one another. I also don't like how lightly she touches on John's sociopathic character in his tv show and how she was enjoying the character. How she claims that people with higher B Cluster Personality disorder have likeable qualities that outshine their disordered traits and how she thinks people should allow themselves to see more than the personality disorder. This is a slippery slope and shows how therapist's do not have a lot of education in regards to personality disorders like NPD and ASPD as well as how therapy especially for ASPD doesn't work; however, it gives them more tools to take advantage of their victims and further the abuse by using what they learn in therapy against the people they are abusing.
The fact that this book has become a tv show I hope that they dig deeper into teaching people about abuse especially abuse from people with high b-cluster personality disorders. We as writers need to do more to help remove the stigma of therapy, but also speaking about abuse and removing the misconceptions about having any type of relationship with someone with NPD and/or ASPD with romanticizing or minimizing their actions and hold them accountable for their psychological abuse as well as physical abuse
The fact that this book has become a tv show I hope that they dig deeper into teaching people about abuse especially abuse from people with high b-cluster personality disorders. We as writers need to do more to help remove the stigma of therapy, but also speaking about abuse and removing the misconceptions about having any type of relationship with someone with NPD and/or ASPD with romanticizing or minimizing their actions and hold them accountable for their psychological abuse as well as physical abuse
I enjoyed the first half of the book, the later half seemed to drag on and I just didn't care anymore.
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This is a book about therapy as much as it is a memoir about a particular time in a therapist's life. For readers with a general interest in psychotherapy, the science and the practice, it is an excellent introduction. It is not, however, a juicy memoir about a woman's life. More academic and journalistic reporting, it is insightful, but often slow and dry.
This book was a very enjoyable read. Hearing the perspective of a therapist was refreshing and encouraging to me as a student of social work. Learning the intimate details of the thoughts of someone in a helping profession helps to illustrate that therapists are people just like the rest of us.