Every year\, nearly 30 million Americans s it on a therapist&rsquo\;s couch&mdash\;and some of these patients are the rapists. In her remarkable book \;Maybe You Should Talk to Someone\, L ori Gottlieb tells us that despite her license and rigorous training\, her most significant credential is that she&rsquo\;s a card-carrying member o f the human race. &ldquo\;I know what it&rsquo\;s like to be a person\,&rd quo\; she writes\, as a crisis causes her world to come crashing down.
\nEnter 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. In her book\, Lori explores the inner chambers of her patients&rsquo\; lives&mdash\;a self-absorbed Hollywood producer\, a youn g newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness\, a senior citizen threatenin g to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better\, and a twenty-so mething who can&rsquo\;t stop hooking up with the wrong guys (even one fro m the waiting room)&mdash\;she finds that the questions they are strugglin g with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.
\nWith star tling wisdom and humor\, Gottlieb reveals our blind spots\, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tight rope between love and desire\, meaning and mortality\, guilt and redemptio n\, terror and courage\, hope and change.
\nMaybe You Should Talk to Someone< /em> \;is revolutionary in its candor\, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gi fts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human\, and a disa rmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.
\nAbout the Author:
\ nLori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and \;New York Times \;best selling author of \;Maybe You Should Talk to Someone\, which has sold over two million copies and is currently being adapted as a television ser ies starring Kristen Bell. In addition to her clinical practice\, she co-h osts the \;popular &ldquo\;Dear Th erapists&rdquo\; podcast \;produced by Katie Couric and writes&nbs p\;The Atlantic&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Dear Therapist&rdquo\; \;advice column. She is a sought-after expert in media such as The Today Show\, Good Morning Am erica\, CBS This Morning\, CNN\, and NPR&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Fresh Air&rdquo\ ; and her \;TED Talk was one of t he Top 10 Most Watched of the Year. She is the creator of the \;Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Workbook: A Toolkit for Editing Your Story and Changing Your Life \;and the \;Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Jo urnal: 52 Weekly Sessions to Transform Your Life. Learn more at \;LoriGottlieb.com \;or by following her on Instagram \;@lorigottlieb_author \;and X \;@LoriGottlieb1.
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