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Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
by Christie Tate
As vulnerable and open as you can get, but well written, engaging, and enlightening. It's non-fiction that reads like a first-person narrative.
The story arc is well-laid out, in that you don't get all the baggage up front, but it comes out gradually, as the stories are relevant and shared in Group. That story arc does lean heavily on romantic relationships, and the story has an expected ending, but it still feels authentic. It's a bit eye-opening into how events and attitudes from childhood can so deeply affect and scare someone so severely in their adulthood. How an intelligent, accomplished person can still be so very broken, and how difficult it can be to exorcise those demons.
Does the group share too much? Or is the level of sharing the group have something enviable that more close circles should employ? How does our societal norm of keeping secrets actually harm us? The book doesn't answer these questions explicitly, but it certainly raises them implicitly in Christie's context.
The story arc is well-laid out, in that you don't get all the baggage up front, but it comes out gradually, as the stories are relevant and shared in Group. That story arc does lean heavily on romantic relationships, and the story has an expected ending, but it still feels authentic. It's a bit eye-opening into how events and attitudes from childhood can so deeply affect and scare someone so severely in their adulthood. How an intelligent, accomplished person can still be so very broken, and how difficult it can be to exorcise those demons.
Does the group share too much? Or is the level of sharing the group have something enviable that more close circles should employ? How does our societal norm of keeping secrets actually harm us? The book doesn't answer these questions explicitly, but it certainly raises them implicitly in Christie's context.