Maybe You Should Talk To Someone

Course overview

With 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, offers a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and provides 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. Author's Note This is a book that asks, How do we change? and answers with In relation to others. The relationships I write about here, between therapists and patients, require a sacred trust for any change to occur. While protecting identities, changes were carefully considered and painstakingly chosen to remain true to the spirit of each story while also serving the greater goal: to reveal our shared humanity so that we can see ourselves more clearly. Which is to say, if you see yourself in these pages, it's both coincidental and intentional. Amended from the book.