“Sit back, explore yourself, and set aside those creaky defenses.” How mean-spirited and intolerant! “Therapist, heal yourself,” said me to me. Once I pressed the pause button on my unkind criticisms, I noticed, with horror, how hostile my questions had been. Why would Gottlieb choose to write her story if not to appear in a good light? Wouldn’t she be self-aggrandizing? Wouldn’t the book reek of fake pseudo-modesty to keep the reader from judging her too harshly? Might her attempts at endearing us be, in fact, manipulations designed to keep us from taking a more penetrating look? As a psychologist in practice for 40 years, I what I thought would be the show-offy tell-all of another therapist. When Lori Gottlieb’s book, You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, came out, I kept it at arm’s length. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019)
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