Kniha Lori Gottliebovej je vtipný, inšpiratívny a osobný portrét psychoterapie, v ktorom sa terapeutka sama stáva pacientkou, keď ju do svojej ambulancie prijme skúsený Wendell. Autorka paralelne sleduje osudy štyroch pacientov (sebecký hollywoodsky spisovateľ, mladomanželka so smrteľnou diagnózou, staršia žena ohrozujúca samovraždou pred sedemdesiatkou a dvadsiatnička s opakovanými toxickými vzťahmi) a prostredníctvom ich príbehov vysvetľuje psychologické mechanizmy bez odborného žargónu. Kniha ponúka úprimný pohľad na zraniteľnosť, potrebu porozumenia a výzvu k otvorenému rozhovoru o problémoch; recenzent ju hodnotí ako pútavú, poučnú a jednu z najlepších publikácií, ktoré v posledných rokoch čítal.
Kniha Lori Gottlieb „Možno by si sa mala s niekým porozprávať“ ponúka pohľady na ľudskú psychiku a prácu psychoterapeuta, pričom autorka píše o vlastnom živote i anonymných pacientoch. Text je pútavý a obsahuje množstvo podnetných myšlienok, zároveň vie byť dlhý a ťažký, často zaoberajúci sa smrťou a strachom a autorka občas skáče medzi príbehmi. Recenzentka dospela k názoru, že to nie je citové vydieranie — autorka sa snaží priniesť užitočné a pozitívne závery — a knihu odporúča predovšetkým čitateľom, ktorých zaujme anotácia; osobne ju neľutuje, hoci to nebolo veselé čítanie.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!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 CouricThis is a daring, delightful, and transformative… ...
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!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 CouricThis is a daring, delightful, and transformative book.Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post and Founder & CEO, Thrive GlobalWise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book.Susan Cain, New York Times best-selling author of QuietFrom a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, comes a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new psychotherapist memoir that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's worldwhere 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 of love and loss causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of-fice 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 on her own path of self-discovery.With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world of psychology 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.One of the most compelling personal memoirs of our time, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is rev-olutionary in its candor, offering a deeply per-sonal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly reveal-ing 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.This unforgettable memoir is a guide to the perplexing mysteries of being human, revealing:A Therapist Goes to Therapy: When a crisis sends psychotherapist Lori Gottliebs world crashing down, she lands on the couch of a quirky therapist named Wendell and discovers she has just as much to learn as her patients.Behind the Scenes of Therapy: Step into the therapy room and meet a cast of unforgettable patientsfrom a self-absorbed Hollywood producer to a young newlywed facing a terminal illnesswho are all searching for answers.Profound Human Connection: Explore the universal truths and fictions we tell ourselves about love, desire, meaning, and mortality in this deeply personal tour of our hearts and minds.Funny and Heartwarming Storytelling: Discover a book that is at once laugh-out-loud funny and profoundly moving, a rare portrait of what it means to be human and our power to change.
