Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by 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.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Ableism & ableist language
- Sexism & misogyny
- Victim blaming
- Sexual harassment
- Workplace harassment
- Abuse, neglect & abandonment
- Abusive relationships
- Verbal abuse
- Intimate partner abuse & violence
- Estrangement & disownment
- Child abuse
- Mental illness
- Intrusive thoughts
- Addiction
- Depression
- Suicidal ideation
- Medical treatment & procedures
- Terminal illness
- Cancer
- Heart disease & heart attack
- Physical injuries & wounds
- Amputation/Loss of limb
- Hospital & hospitalisation
- Death of a child
- Death of a friend
- Death of a sibling
- Grief & loss depiction
- Physical assault
- Stalking
- Car accident
