As we watch Gottlieb and her patients learn to tell the rest of their own stories and move beyond their pain, we find some surprising insights and even a bit of wisdom. In showing us how patients tell themselves what turns out to be just a part of their stories, she also gives us a satisfying set of narratives. “I’ve always been drawn to stories-not just what happens, but how the story is told,” Gottlieb writes. In Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb talked about her patients stories as a therapist herself and how she worked with her own therapist on. And we get to listen in through this unusual combination of memoir, self-help guide and therapy primer.īefore Gottlieb trained as a therapist, she worked as a writer for TV shows like “E.R.” She’s also a columnist for The Atlantic and the author of Marry Him, and her varied background shows in her writing, which is warm, approachable and funny-a pleasure to read. As Gottlieb’s patients proceed (often painfully) through their sessions, so does Gottlieb with her new therapist, Wendell.
As Gottlieb undertakes her own therapy journey, she continues to see her usual roster of patients, and she introduces us to four of them (identities disguised), each with their own array of quirks, longings and suffering. In Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, Los Angeles-based therapist Lori Gottlieb details her search for a therapist she doesn’t know but might begin to trust and the way her own defenses and blind spots trip her up as she tries to get over an unexpected breakup. But it turns out that beginning therapy, and then muddling through it, is just as hard for professionals as it is for the rest of us. What happens when a psychotherapist’s life falls apart? She finds her own therapist.
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