megherrenkohl 's review for:

Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate

3.0

---

Mixed feelings about this book. This style of therapy is definitely unique and expensive (she describes paying $800/month at the time). The book dragged on in some places for me. I appreciated the honest view of what “progress” often looks like when doing deep work like that and that it continues lifelong. Though most of the time, the people I’ve seen as a therapist that had been in “lifelong” therapy (with no breaks to actually test out skills and live their life) were very dependent on the therapist which is opposite of the goal. Part of me wishes I had a group like that where I could say whatever and expect honest reflections. I think a lot of us would benefit from that.