Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Lori Gottlieb

This is a nonfiction memoir by psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb, who intertwines stories from her own therapy sessions as a patient with accounts of several of her clients. After a sudden breakup sends her into crisis, Gottlieb seeks out her own therapist, Wendell, while continuing to treat patients including a terminally ill newlywed, a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, and an elderly woman contemplating ending her life. The book offers an inside look at both sides of the therapy relationship, blending humor, compassion, and hard-won insight about grief, change, and what it means to be human. It is not a romance novel but a bestselling memoir about the therapeutic process.