Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

By: Lori Gottlieb

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

Now being developed as a television series with Eva Longoria and ABC!

"An irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition." (Kirkus, starred review)

"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 20-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.

©2019 Lori Gottlieb (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Brittany Pressley performs this audiobook at a fast pace that will be familiar to listeners who live in large, bustling cities. But she knows how to moderate her energy for the tender sections, and her overall performance sounds authentic, conversational, and true to the core intentions of the author's story....Portrayed by Pressley, [the author] also sounds like someone you know, which makes her observations and insights all the more accessible." (AudioFile Magazine)

Loved it !

I am actually going to purchase the hardcover of this book because there are so many things in it worth highlighting and underlining for future reference. That being said, I am very glad that I purchased the Audible version first. Brittany Pressley is an amazing narrator, which made an excellant book even more enjoyable.
Absolutely worth the credit used!

Fantastic

Sign me up that's what you feel like after you finish this book, like you should go talk to a psychologist , but like most people you don't think you need too. I love the reader , what a great job she did, If your having 2nd thoughts about this book ,don't it's worth listening too

Thoroughly enjoyable

I’m bummed this book is over. The way the author reveals her work in therapy and her work with her own clients made me forget I didn’t know these people. I appreciate the honesty behind each character and the way she says the things most people think but don’t say out loud. The narrator’s performance felt spot on throughout the whole book as well; adding to the story instead of distracting from it. Very very much enjoyed.

Beautiful and thought provoking

I absolutely loved this book. Beautifully written, funny, soul crushing, uplifting, and will make you think about yourself in a different way.

Mental Health Should be the Norm

I celebrate this book because of how NORMAL she makes taking care of one's mental health. I am over therapy being a taboo. I liked going through her journey with her (and the journey of her patients) and I think all in all it was pretty authentic. It made me feel like I was visiting one of my girlfriends and talking through all of our issues (cuz we've ALL got issues...)

Good read - I recommend it!

Enjoyed this book. very interesting!!

I got wrapped up in everyone's lives and couldn't wait to hear how everyone issues got resolved.

Free 14 hours of therapy!

If you just broke up with your boyfriend and started therapy to get over it, this book is for YOU! It takes awhile to get into it, but believe me, it's worth it. I kept rewinding and wishing I had the hard copy too to remember all of the lessons I learned from this book. Felt like it wasn't a novel, but real stories about people in therapy going through everyday life trying to heal from it and live life and not just survive. And not just the patients, the therapist herself gives such a unique look into what therapists must face everyday. Worth the credit 1,000 times!

Fabulous! Loved it from start to finish

Maybe it’s just because I was itching for a book like this, but I love this one and couldn’t wait to turn it on whenever I had the chance! Great little nuggets of wisdom, great writing, and loved the reader also.

Entertaining take on therapy

The way these stories are told is clever in the observations. You enjoy the growth of the author and her clients. But due to privacy in her work I had trouble ignoring the fact she can't share that much about her clients. So much of that felt fictional.

Incredible

Best book I have ever read, and I read about 50 books a year. Give it a try, you won’t regret it. It might even change you.