读过《Maybe You Should Talk to Someone》 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
读书真的很讲缘分，开始读这本书的时候我状态没那么差觉得只是文笔好而已，读到中途心态崩了开始 relate 书中每一个人和故事（甚至只能 relate 的是一开始最讨厌的角色），听进去每一句作者和她的病人和她的 therapist 的对话和突破，仿佛进行了一场大型互动 therapy 旅程，从 defensive 到打开心扉到找到突破点到做出改变。我是没想到泪点超高的我读一本 self-help/therapy book 能哭好几次。不但从病人的角度，连从职业选择/中年寻找 calling 的角度本书都成了大型安利现场，作者追求的不是 happiness 而是 meaning 的醒悟大概也是我一直潜意识里不愿向自己承认的一点。此外作者文笔无比流畅但用词又考究而不做作，也真的很好读。
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author:
Lori Gottlieb
publishing house:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2019
- 4
other title:
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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 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 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.
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 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 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.