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A disarmingly funny, thought-provoking, and boldly revealing new book that shows us what it means to be human.

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  • An O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 
  • A Joy Behar’s “Ladies Get Lit pick” on THE VIEW
  • A TIME magazine Must-Read Book of the Year
  • An NPR Favorite Book of the Year
  • An Amazon 10 Best Books of the Year
  • A People Magazine Book of the Week
  • The #1 Audible Nonfiction Book of the Year
  • A Real Simple Book of the Year
  • A USA TODAY Book of the Year
  • A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
  • A Variety Best Book of the Year
  • A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
  • A Book Riot Favorite Book of the Year
  • A Goodreads Choice Finalist for Best Book of the Year
  • An IndieNext Pick
  • A Book of the Month Club Selection
  • A Publishers Marketplace Buzz Book
  • Newsday, Apple iBooks, Washington Post, Real SimpleThrive GlobalRefinery29,
    and Book Riot Most Anticipated Book of the Year
  • A PopSugar Best Book of the Year
  • An AARP Must-Read Book of the Year
  • A Harvard Business School Must-Read Book of the Year

“An addictive book that’s part Oliver Sacks and part Nora Ephron. Prepare to be riveted.”People Magazine, Book of the Week

“An irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition.”Kirkus, starred review

“This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book.”Arianna Huffington
Founder, Huffington Post and Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

“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

“Wise, warm, smart, and funny… If you have even an ounce of interest in the conundrum of being human, you must read this book.”Susan Cain
New York Times bestselling author of Quiet

“Gottlieb is an utterly compelling narrator: funny, probing, surprising, savvy, vulnerable. She pays attention to the small stuff—the box of tissues and the Legos in the carpet—as she honors the more expansive mysteries of our wild, aching hearts.”Leslie Jamison
New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams and The Recovering

“Ingenious, inspiring, tender, and funny. Lori Gottlieb bravely takes her readers on a guided tour into the self.” —Amy Dickinson, “Ask Amy” columnist and author of Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things

Every year, nearly 30 million Americans sit on a therapist’s couch—and some of these patients are therapists. In her remarkable new book, Lori Gottlieb tells us that despite her license and rigorous training, her most significant credential is that she’s a card-carrying member of the human race. “I know what it’s like to be a person,” she writes, as 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 (even one from the waiting room)—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 reveals our blind spots, 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.

Reviews

"An addictive book that's part Oliver Sacks and part Nora Ephron. Prepare to be riveted."
People Magazine, Book of the Week

"[Gottlieb] shows us what it’s like to be on both sides of the couch with doses of heartwarming humor and invaluable, tell-it-like-it-is wisdom."
O, The Oprah Magazine

"Provocative and entertaining... Gottlieb gives us more than a voyeuristic look at other people's problems (including her own). She shows us the value of therapy."
The Washington Post

"Saturated with self-awareness and compassion, this is an irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition."
Kirkus, starred review

"The coup de grace is Gottlieb’s vulnerability with her own therapist. Some readers will know Gottlieb from her many TV appearances or her 'Dear Therapist' column, but even for the uninitiated-to-Gottlieb, it won’t take long to settle in with this compelling read."
Booklist

"Groundbreaking... A startlingly revealing tour of the therapist’s life."
Entertainment Weekly

"In Maybe You Should Talk To Someone, Gottlieb lays bare the paradigms of human existence that we all grapple with. Whether you go to therapy every week or are thinking about starting, Lori Gottlieb’s stories from the therapy couch—both as a therapist and as a patient—will forever change the way you think about therapy."
Parade Magazine

"A fascinating, funny behind-the-scenes look at what happens when people — even shrinks themselves — 'break open.'"
Shondaland

"Warm, approachable and funny—a pleasure to read."
Bookpage

"Heartwarming and upbeat, this memoir demystifies therapy and celebrates the human spirit."
Shelf Awareness

"A joy to read ... a wise and witty meld of the author’s personal insights and clinical observations plus bite-sized nuggets of psychology without ever lecturing or boring the reader. The fact that she doesn’t hold back talking about her suffering is what makes this book so powerful ... a most satisfying and illuminating read for psychotherapy patients, their therapists, and all the rest of us."
New York Journal of Books

"This is the kind of inspiring book you'll want a physical copy of just to underline every other sentence. Painfully funny and moving, this ode to all the ways therapy can change lives should be required reading."
PopSugar

"Gottlieb deftly weaves in rich storylines from her experience as a psychotherapist--not just to entertain or to teach us about others but to beautifully and subtly teach us more about ourselves."
Harvard Business School Magazine

"Rather than feel as if we’re eavesdropping, we feel privileged to bear witness to the authenticity, bravery, caring, tenderness, intimacy, and depth of emotion we observe. Gottlieb's patients become mirrors to help us see ourselves more clearly: the games of emotional hide-and-seek we all play with ourselves and others, the pain and joy of opening our minds and hearts, and the terror and longing we feel to let our unvarnished selves step out from behind the curtain."
The New York Review of Books
"Satisfyingly voyeuristic and intimate... by the end [Gottlieb's patients] are more aware—of themselves as people, of the choices they’ve made, and of the choices they could go on to make."
Slate

"Authentic... raw... an irresistibly candid and addicting memoir about psychotherapeutic practice as experienced by both the clinician and the patient."
The New York Times Book Review

"Part autobiography and part self-help book, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is shot through with candor and humor."
USA Today

"A delightful, fascinating dive into human behavior and idiosyncrasies, habits and defenses, fears and blind spots: hers, her patients’, yours and mine."
The Chicago Tribune

"This relatable memoir reminds us that many of our struggles are universal and just plain human."
Real Simple

"Who could resist watching a therapist grapple with the same questions her patients have been asking her for years? Gottlieb, who writes the Atlantic’s "Dear Therapist" column, brings searing honesty to her search for answers."
The Washington Post

"Sparkling... Gottlieb portrays her patients, as well as herself as a patient, with compassion, humor, and grace."
Publishers Weekly

"Conversational and funny yet deeply insightful... Gottlieb writes in bite-sized and easily digestible chapters, but she tackles big ideas about the human condition."
Refinery29 Best Books List

"I was thinking maybe I should talk to someone, and then there was this book. Physician, heal thyself? No. Human being, be honest with thyself and do something really difficult. Gottlieb is as fine a writer as she is a storyteller. I was sad our sessions had to end."
American Booksellers Association, IndieNext Pick

"An entertaining, relatable, and moving homage to therapy—and being human. We’re all in this together, folks—something this book hits home."
The Amazon Book Review

"A candid and remarkably relatable account of what it means to be a therapist who also goes to therapy, and what this can teach us about the universality of our questions and anxieties."
Thrive Global, "10 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2019"

"Written with grace, humor, wisdom, and compassion… a heartwarming journey of self-discovery."
Library Journal

"An all-too-human portrait of our vulnerability and power as people struggling to get by and get better."
Bookpage

"Gottlieb offers proof that there's no limit to our desire to make sense of it all, no expiration date on our capacity to change."
Minneapolis Star Tribune

Advanced Praise

"Some people are great writers, and other people are great therapists. Lori Gottlieb is, astoundingly, both. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is about the wonder of being human: how none of us is immune from struggle, and how we can grow into ourselves and escape our emotional prisons. 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
Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book. Lori Gottlieb takes us inside the most intimate of encounters as both clinician and patient and leaves us with a surprisingly fresh understanding of ourselves, one another, and the human condition. Her willingness to expose her own blind spots along with her patients’ shows us firsthand that we aren’t alone in our struggles and that maybe we should talk more about them. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is funny, hopeful, wise, and engrossing—all at the same time.”
Arianna Huffington
Founder, Huffington Post and Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

"Here are some people who might benefit from Lori Gottlieb’s illuminating new book: Therapists, people who have been in therapy, people who have been in relationships, people who have experienced emotions. In other words, everyone. Her story is funny, enlightening, and radically honest. It merits far more than 50 minutes of your time."
A.J. Jacobs
New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically

"Shrinks, they're just like us—at least in Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, the heartfelt memoir by therapist Lori Gottlieb. Warm, funny, and engaging (no poker-faced clinician here), Gottlieb not only gives us an unvarnished look at her patients' lives, but also her own. The result is the most relatable portrait of a therapist I've yet encountered."
Susannah Cahalan
New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

"With wisdom and humanity, Lori Gottlieb invites us into her consulting room, and her therapist's. There, readers will share in one of the best-kept secrets of being a clinician: when we bear witness to change, we also change, and when we are present as others find meaning in their lives, we also discover more in our own."
Lisa Damour, Ph.D.
New York Times bestselling author of Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood
"Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is a fascinating exploration of what happens in therapy—but it’s also a broader illumination of what we’re looking for from one another all the time: curiosity, patience, the humility of sustained attention, the willingness to stay present for another person's pain. Gottlieb is an utterly compelling narrator: funny, probing, surprising, savvy, vulnerable. She pays attention to the small stuff—the box of tissues and the Legos in the carpet—as she honors the more expansive mysteries of our wild, aching hearts."
Leslie Jamison
New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams and The Recovering

"I’ve been reading books about psychotherapy for over a half century, but never have I encountered a book like Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: so bold and brassy, so packed with good stories, so honest, deep and riveting. I intended to read a chapter or two but ended up reading and relishing every word."
Irvin Yalom MD
Professor emeritus of psychiatry at Stanford University and bestselling author of Love’s Executioner and The Gift of Therapy

"If you have even an ounce of interest in the therapeutic process, or in the conundrum of being human, you must read this book. It is wise, warm, smart, and funny, and Lori Gottlieb is exceedingly good company."
Susan Cain
New York Times bestselling author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking

"Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is ingenious, inspiring, tender, and funny. Lori Gottlieb bravely takes her readers on a guided tour into the self, showing us the therapeutic process from both sides of the couch—as both therapist and patient. I cheered for her breakthroughs, as if they were my own! This is the best book I've ever read about the life-changing possibilities of talk therapy."
Amy Dickinson
"Ask Amy" advice columnist and New York Times bestselling author of Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things

"I was sucked right in to these vivid, funny, illuminating stories of humans trying to climb their way out of hiding, overcome self-defeating habits, and wake up to their own strength. This book is so insightful, and compassionate, and rich, and taught me a lot about myself. Gottlieb has captured something profound about the struggle, and the miracle, of human connection."
Sarah Hepola
New York Times bestselling author of Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
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