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Talvez você deva conversar com alguém: Uma terapeuta, o terapeuta dela e a vida de todos nós by Lori Gottlieb, Elisa Nazarian

16 reviews

a_novi's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

I recommend this book to almost everyone but especially if you have an interest in mental health or if you have ever been through trauma that made you consider therapy. I recommend this to people who work in therapy social work or healthcare. It starts off slow and you may say “why do I care about this” but when the author starts drawing parallels between her experiences with that of her patients and experiences with her therapist it’s very interesting and enlightening. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Medical content, Cancer, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, Addiction, Car accident, Infertility, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Child death, and Cursing

melincincy23's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Child death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse

roveronez's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

What a great book! Lori Gottlieb talks about her life, how she became a therapist, and her struggles as well as the life challenges of her patients in such way that we feel like we're reading a novel. So many insights, the kind of book that naturally teaches you so much about psychology and gives you tools to cope with your own struggles without sounding like a "self-help" book. I loved it! ❤️

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, Cursing, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Medical content, and Alcoholism

cj5300's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

Did not expect to get so emotionally attached to many of the characters in this book. I cried at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Cancer

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

Minor: Addiction and Alcohol

zoeysdigest's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Splendid read, definitely one of my best reads so far. While it most certainly does not paint the whole picture of what therapy is, it was am informative, fun and heartening read.

🎯 I loved learning about the technicalities shown through examples of the patients as well as Lori herself.
🎯 The growth of all the characters, even the worst ones. I celebrated and cried with some (her experience with Julie got my tears flowing).
🎯 Seeing parts of others and myself in the characters made it a good opportunity for reflection.
🎯 It was well-written and personable, there were twists that kept you going
🤔 The bouncing back and forth of characters and timeline got a bit confusing at some points
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It felt like Charlotte didn't really get an ending, like what happened to her and dude?

Overall a great book if you're seeking a (not-so-dry) book to learn more about yourself and have a great insight into therapy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cancer, and Alcohol

ju_harue's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Essa leitura conversou muito comigo de um jeito que me levou a gatilhos que nem mesmo sabia que poderiam me afetar, mas sobre os quais refleti bastante (e levei a minha própria terapia).
Achei a forma como foi exposto e escrito as histórias e exemplos, foi muito respeitosa e honesta. Acompanhar alguns pacientes em paralelo em como reverbarava na Lori, foi especial, enfim, uma leitura que eu amei muito, apesar de ter sofrido em muitos momentos.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Cancer, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Abortion, Death of parent, Alcohol, Stalking, Gaslighting, Car accident, and Alcoholism

natlikestoread's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Addiction, and Mental illness

cturn's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

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

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

this book made me experience the full spectrum of human emotion. still sad over some things in it!!! it is a really good book that illustrates how we as humans are so much more than the versions of ourselves that we choose to show and that we all have trauma, we all have good and bad sides, and there are things we all would rather keep hidden.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicide, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Cursing, Death, Grief, Abandonment, Car accident, Cancer, Death of parent, and Infertility

headinthepages's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Chronic illness, Infertility, Medical content, Mental illness, Abandonment, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Grief, Alcoholism, Child death, Infidelity, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence