Maybe You Should Talk To Someone

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – Lori Gottlieb

Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who spends her days helping patients through crises large and small. Then her own life falls apart when her boyfriend suddenly ends their relationship, and she finds herself on the other side of the couch, seeing a therapist of her own.

In Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, Gottlieb takes readers behind the scenes of the therapy room in both directions. She introduces four of her patients: a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a woman approaching seventy who plans to end her life by her next birthday, and a young woman who keeps choosing the wrong men. Alongside them, she shares her own sessions with Wendell, an experienced and unconventional therapist who challenges her to confront the deeper issues behind her heartbreak.

With warmth, humor and remarkable honesty, Gottlieb explores the questions that unite us all: how we change, why we resist change, how we deal with loss and how we find meaning and connection.

The book offers a rare and compassionate look at how therapy works, while showing that therapists are as human as their patients.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone became a major bestseller and has encouraged many readers to reflect on their own lives. It is a moving, insightful read for anyone curious about therapy, psychology and the universal struggles of being human.