Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed / Lori Gottlieb.
"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. [This book] 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." -- Jacket.
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- ISBN: 9781328662057
- ISBN: 1328662055
- Physical Description: 415 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
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Subject: | Gottlieb, Lori > Health. Psychotherapists > Biography. Therapist and patient > Biography. Patients. |
Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. |
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Table of Contents
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone : A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Part 1 | ||
1 | Idiots | p. 3 |
2 | If the Queen Had Balls | p. 11 |
3 | The Space of a Step | p. 18 |
4 | The Smart One or the Hot One | p. 23 |
5 | Namast'ay in Bed | p. 28 |
6 | Finding Wendell | p. 34 |
7 | The Beginning of Knowing | p. 41 |
8 | Rosie | p. 50 |
9 | Snapshots of Ourselves | p. 57 |
10 | The Future Is Also the Present | p. 59 |
11 | Goodbye, Hollywood | p. 68 |
12 | Welcome to Holland | p. 74 |
13 | How Kids Deal with Grief | p. 81 |
14 | Harold and Maude | p. 84 |
15 | Hold the Mayo | p. 89 |
16 | The Whole Package | p. 99 |
17 | Without Memory or Desire | p. 109 |
Part 2 | ||
18 | Fridays at Four | p. 119 |
19 | What We Dream Of | p. 126 |
20 | The First Confession | p. 130 |
21 | Therapy with a Condom On | p. 136 |
22 | Jail | p. 148 |
23 | Trader Joe's | p. 155 |
24 | Hello, Family | p. 160 |
25 | The UPS Guy | p. 172 |
26 | Embarrassing Public Encounters | p. 176 |
27 | Wendell's Mother | p. 183 |
28 | Addicted | p. 190 |
29 | The Rapist | p. 198 |
30 | On the Clock | p. 208 |
Part 3 | ||
31 | My Wandering Uterus | p. 217 |
32 | Emergency Session | p. 225 |
33 | Karma | p. 232 |
34 | Just Be | p. 239 |
35 | Would You Rather? | p. 242 |
36 | The Speed of Wane | p. 255 |
37 | Ultimate Concerns | p. 262 |
38 | Legoland | p. 269 |
39 | How Humans Change | p. 281 |
40 | Fathers | p. 288 |
41 | Integrity Versus Despair | p. 295 |
42 | My Neshama | p. 305 |
43 | What Not to Say to a Dying Person | p. 309 |
44 | Boyfriend's Email | p. 314 |
45 | Wendell's Beard | p. 318 |
Part 4 | ||
46 | The Bees | p. 327 |
47 | Kenya | p. 335 |
48 | Psychological Immune System | p. 337 |
49 | Counseling Versus Therapy | p. 346 |
50 | Deathzilla | p. 352 |
51 | Deal-Myron | p. 358 |
52 | Mothers | p. 366 |
53 | The Hug | p. 372 |
54 | Don't Blow It | p. 378 |
55 | It's My Party and You'll Cry if You Want To | p. 388 |
56 | Happiness Is Sometimes | p. 395 |
57 | Wendell | p. 403 |
58 | A Pause in the Conversation | p. 408 |
Acknowledgments | p. 413 |