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A review by danipanini
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
Despite me spacing out this book for over two months, I really didn't mind actually. I'm glad I didn't rush this because the book tackles very human and very real circumstances, as much as you'd get from a book written by a therapist about her patients and her own experience as a patient.
As mentioned in the Author's Note, if you see yourself in the pages, it's purely "intentional and coincidental," further underscoring how we all have the same profoundly human experiences no matter who, what, or where we are in life. And it is in this way that I see how important therapy is, how important it really is to have a deeper understanding of ourselves in order to see how we change and grow in relation to others and our environment. Therapy helps achieve this because, my god, that is definitely not an easy thing to do alone. This book highlights that you are not—and you don't have to be—alone.
Where I'm from, therapy can be considered a privilege because the majority still cannot access this service due to its steep price (I can attest to this—I had to stop seeing mine because I couldn't afford it anymore). This makes me all the more grateful that a resource like this is available to read. It definitely can't replace the work of psychotherapy, but it can definitely open more people's eyes to the work that goes behind it and the ripple effect that it creates, starting with the patient and radiating outwards.
I personally enjoyed this book because I've always been intrigued with psychology and the workings of the human mind in this context. Despite its very slight structural issues with chapters that tend to jump from one place to another, by the end it provides the whole story of people just trying their absolute best to be human—to not just survive, but to live.
As mentioned in the Author's Note, if you see yourself in the pages, it's purely "intentional and coincidental," further underscoring how we all have the same profoundly human experiences no matter who, what, or where we are in life. And it is in this way that I see how important therapy is, how important it really is to have a deeper understanding of ourselves in order to see how we change and grow in relation to others and our environment. Therapy helps achieve this because, my god, that is definitely not an easy thing to do alone. This book highlights that you are not—and you don't have to be—alone.
Where I'm from, therapy can be considered a privilege because the majority still cannot access this service due to its steep price (I can attest to this—I had to stop seeing mine because I couldn't afford it anymore). This makes me all the more grateful that a resource like this is available to read. It definitely can't replace the work of psychotherapy, but it can definitely open more people's eyes to the work that goes behind it and the ripple effect that it creates, starting with the patient and radiating outwards.
I personally enjoyed this book because I've always been intrigued with psychology and the workings of the human mind in this context. Despite its very slight structural issues with chapters that tend to jump from one place to another, by the end it provides the whole story of people just trying their absolute best to be human—to not just survive, but to live.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Abandonment, and Suicidal thoughts