Lori Gottlieb – författare

Vad händer när terapeuten själv hamnar i kris?

Lori har lämnat Hollywoods lyxluncher och kändisflärd för att hjälpa människor på riktigt. Som psykoterapeut hjälper hon vanliga människor hantera kriser, sorg, ångest, utbrändhet, depression -- de trassel som kantar ett människoliv. Hon borde vara förberedd. Men när en oväntad kris drabbar henne blir det omöjligt att reda ut den känslomässiga härvan på egen hand.

Så hamnar hon på Wendells kontor. Med cardigan, khakibyxor och begynnande flint verkar han som rekryterad från Terapistereotypernas Castingbyrå AB, men han ska visa sig vara så mycket mer.

Parallellt med att Lori utforskar sina patienters inre världar  en självupptagen Hollywoodproducent, en nygift ung kvinna som fått en dödlig diagnos, en pensionär som hotar med att ta livet av sig på sin födelsedag om inget blir bättre, och en tjugoåring som inte kan låta bli att strula med fel killar (inte ens killarna i väntrummet går säkra) -- upptäcker hon att de frågor patienterna brottas med är desamma som hon själv kämpar med.

Kan en skallig, khakiklädd, udda terapeut verkligen hjälpa Lori, som redan känner till alla knep?

Det här är Lori Gottliebs insiktsfulla, roliga, spränglärda och helt sanna berättelse om livet på båda sidor av terapistolen. 

Vad tänker terapeuterna egentligen när vi berättar om våra liv?

Vilka metoder använder de för att lossa våra inre knutar?

Vad känner de inför oss? Och framför allt: hur kan man lära sig att ta emot hjälp, när man vet lika mycket som personen i stolen mittemot?

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

*Paperback includes an exclusive interview with the author and a reader's guide*

“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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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