Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by Lori Gottlieb
View on GoodreadsA working psychotherapist's memoir that interleaves her own crisis (a sudden breakup) and her time on her own therapist's couch with composite case studies of four of her patients.
Core ideas
- The therapeutic relationship is the active ingredient — the technique matters less than what happens between two people in the room.
- Change happens at the rate of pain exceeding the cost of staying the same; insight alone does nothing.
- Therapists are not exempt from any of it — their self-deception, defensive routines, and need to be seen run on the same hardware as everyone else's.
Published2019
Pages415
ISBN9781328662057
ReadSep 2020
