lori gottlieb maybe you should talk to someone

'In prose that's conversational and funny yet deeply insightful, psychologist Lori Gottlieb is here to remind us that our therapists are people, too.' * Refinery29 * 'Candid and deeply personal, this is a book about being both patient and clinician, and one that offers hope to us all.' - Sarah Shaffi * Stylist Magazine's 'Your Guide to 2019's Best Non-Fiction Books' * 'Gottlieb has written a wise, funny and sometimes blisteringly sad book that is warmer than any self-help guide: one that feels like a friend.' - Anna Leszkiewicz * New Statesman * I wish I hadn't finished reading it, but will start from the beginning again happily.' - Nigella Lawson 'Absorbing and fascinating.' - Oliver Burkeman * The Guardian * Publisher: Scribe Publications ISBN: 9781911617044 Number of pages: 432 Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 30 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Told with charm and compassion, vulnerability and humour, it's also the story of an incredible relationship between two therapists, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious inner lives, as well as our power to transform them. Taking place over one year, and beginning with the devastating event that lands her in Wendell's office, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone offers a rare and candid insight into a profession that is conventionally bound with rules and secrecy.

Enter Wendell, himself a veteran therapist with an unconventional style, whose sessions with Gottlieb will prove transformative for her.Īs Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her own patients' lives - a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen who feels she has nothing to live for, and a self-destructive twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys - she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very questions she is bringing to Wendell.

When a personal crisis causes her world to come crashing down, Lori Gottlieb - an experienced therapist with a thriving practice in Los Angeles - is suddenly adrift. A TIME magazine Must-Read Book of the YearĮver wonder what your therapist is thinking? Now you can find out, as therapist and New York Times bestselling author Lori Gottlieb takes us behind the scenes of her practice - where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

Lori gottlieb maybe you should talk to someone