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“Warm, approachable and funny-a pleasure to read.” -Bookpage “A psychotherapist and advice columnist at The Atlantic shows us what it’s like to be on both sides of the couch with doses of heartwarming humor and invaluable, tell-it-like-it-is wisdom.” - O, The Oprah Magazine We’re all in this together, folks-something this book hits home.” -The Amazon Book Review “An entertaining, relatable, and moving homage to therapy-and being human. Some readers will know Gottlieb from her many TV appearances or her ‘Dear Therapist”’column, but even for the uninitiated-to-Gottlieb, it won’t take long to settle in with this compelling read.” - Booklist “The coup de grace is Gottlieb’s vulnerability with her own therapist.

“Written with grace, humor, wisdom, and compassion, this heartwarming journey of self-discovery.” -Library Journal “Saturated with self-awareness and compassion, this is an irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition.” - Kirkus Review, Starred Review less …Īn O, The Oprah Magazine‘s Best Nonfiction Book of 2019Ī Newsday, Apple iBooks, Thrive Global, Refinery29, and Book Riot Most Anticipated Book of 2019 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. 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. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.Īs 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 can’t 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 his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. 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 therapist’s world-where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

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