Shopping cart
Your cart empty!
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Now being developed as a television series with Eva Longoria and ABC!
“Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing.”—Katie Couric
“This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book.”—Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post and Founder & CEO, Thrive Global
“Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book.”—Susan Cain, New York Times best-selling author of Quiet
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).
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.
More Books from Lori Gottlieb
Reviews
Great writing and storytelling. I relate to the author and all of the patients wholeheartedly and could not stop highlighting amazing quotes.
By Eightfortyfourrrr
This book has been on my “to read” list for years. I finally took the opportunity. While yes, I am also a therapist, I recommend this book as a human. Every difficult emotion that we all experience is touched with such grace. I cried, I laughed. I will carry this book with me for a lifetime.
By ADefendorf
This book was good don’t get me wrong, I just had a hard time staying engaged and pulled in. There were some great experiences and stories that were used, made me think a bit about my own life.
By KEEEEEEEESIE18
What a beautiful journey, thank you for sharing and inspiring me to go back to therapy and do the work.
By Meghan Sheehan
Lovely book, easy to read and informative
By TMF84