| Title | : | Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed |
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| ISBN | : | 1328662055 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 978-1328662057 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 pages |
| Publication | : | Mariner Books |
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An irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition. Kirkus, starred review
Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh out loud funny and utterly absorbing. Katie Couric
This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book. Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post and Founder CEO, Thrive Global
Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book. Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet
From a New York Times best selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapists world where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).
One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients lives a self absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty something who cant stop hooking up with the wrong guys she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.
With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Reviews
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Ok, I asked my Facebook friends to provide ONE book recommendation (a book that they read and LOVED) with a goal of reading at least 12 books this year in the order in which comments came in. Not gonna lie, I was hesitant to start this one thinking it was a self help book
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Do you know how difficult it is to whisper an ugly cry? I do. There I was at 3:30am, relaxed and enjoying the insight and surprising humour of this book, caught up in a ‘just one chapter’ loop. Then, out of nowhere, I was ugly crying as quietly as possible so I didn’t
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This is one of the best books I’ve read to date, and I’ve read a lot. I marked up so many things in this book to think further upon and write about as I analyze ways to be a open and vulnerable human and to show up better in my own life. I loved all of the characters
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Authentic, insightful, relatable journey. The journeys in the book provide a nonthreatening opportunity for the reader to embark on their own journey! Well done! This should be a required read for every mental health program when students are examining what informs their
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This is a highly moving and inspiring account of a soul searching journey. I didn’t pick up the book for many time before simply because of the cover design and title. They didn’t impress me as sort of self help or chicken soupy flavored. It is only through
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Purchased the book for one of my graduate courses and must I say it was a GREAT read!!! It’s one of those books that I want to reread just because. I am so in love with the way the book was spectacularly written.
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This is a story that fits your narrative, whatever that may be. Much like when you hear lyrics and you interpret their meaning into your own. It may not be what the writer intended them to mean, but it's okay.
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I was in a reading rut when I purchased this so I was surprised that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. It was my favorite read in the COVID 19 era, and I actually cried while reading it. No spoilers, but highly recommend.
