Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
Douban
A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb
overview
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. Enter Wendell, himself a veteran therapist with an unconventional style, whose sessions with Gottlieb will prove transformative for her.
As 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.
Taking place over one year, and beginning with the devastating event that lands her in Wendell's office, Maybe You Should Talks to Someone offers a rare and candid insight into a profession that is conventionally bound with rules and secrecy. 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.
contents
PART ONE
1. Idiot
2. If the Queen Had Balls
3. The Space of a Step
4. The Smart One or the Hot One
5. Namast’ay in Bed
6. Finding Wendell
7. The Beginning of Knowing
8. Rosie
9. Snapshots of Ourselves
10. The Future Is Also the Present
11. Goodbye, Hollywood
12. Welcome to Holland
13. How Kids Deal with Grief
14. Harold and Maude
15. Hold the Mayo
16. The Whole Package
17. Without Memory or Desire
PART TWO
18. Fridays at Four
19. What We Dream Of
20. The First Confession
21. Therapy with a Condom On
22. Jail
23. Trader Joe’s
24. Hello, Family
25. The UPS Guy
26. Embarrassing Public Encounters
27. Wendell’s Mother
28. Addicted
29. The Rapist
30. On the Clock
PART THREE
31. My Wandering Uterus
32. Emergency Session
33. Karma
34. Just Be
35. Would You Rather?
36. The Speed of Want
37. Ultimate Concerns
38. Legoland
39. How Humans Change
40. Fatheres
41. Integrity Versus Despair
42. My Neshama
43. What Not to Say to a Dying Person
44. Boyfriend’s Email
45. Wendell’s Bread
PART FOUR
46. The Bees
47. Kenya
48. Psychological Immune System
49. Counseling Versus Therapy
50. Deathzilla
51. Dear Myron
52. Mothers
53. The Hug
54. Don’t Blow It
55. It’s My Party and You’ll Cry if You Want To
56. Happiness Is Sometimes
57. Wendell
58. A Pause in the Conversation
Acknowledgements
other editions
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Shanghai Culture Press 2023 -
也许你该找个人聊聊 果麦文化/上海文化出版社 2021 -
也许你该找个人聊聊 上海文化出版社 2021 -
也許你該找人聊聊：一個諮商心理師與她的心理師，以及我們的生活 行路 2020 -
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019 -
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Mariner Books 2019