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A review by lily1304
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
3.25
This is probably half self-help and only half memoir, but I still got invested in the author's story and those of the three "main character" patients. I appreciate that she lets a lay audience into the science and practice of talk therapy. For example, she explains well that a stable, boundaried relationship with a therapist and the therapist's unconditional positive regard are like, more important for a patient's success than the therapist's particular modality.
I'm interested in how the author normalizes therapy by showing how it can help people with things like grief, marital problems, or feeling "stuck" - things that basically everyone experiences at some point in their life. She briefly mentions suicidality and personality disorders, but otherwise doesn't focus on more serious, less universally relatable reasons someone might see a therapist. I hope that the de-stigmatization from stories like Gottlieb's also extends to people with more serious mental illness whom Gottlieb glosses over.
I'm interested in how the author normalizes therapy by showing how it can help people with things like grief, marital problems, or feeling "stuck" - things that basically everyone experiences at some point in their life. She briefly mentions suicidality and personality disorders, but otherwise doesn't focus on more serious, less universally relatable reasons someone might see a therapist. I hope that the de-stigmatization from stories like Gottlieb's also extends to people with more serious mental illness whom Gottlieb glosses over.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, and Death
Moderate: Child abuse