Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Author: [US] Lori Gottlieb Psychology Book Douban Rating 9.4

This is a memoir of a psychotherapist, telling stories that happened in the consulting room. In this small, enclosed space, people will show their truest and most vulnerable side; it is also here that people get companionship and listening, as well as valuable awareness, growth and change.

In the book, we will see the stories of four visitors, they are:

A successful, self-righteous Hollywood producer in his forties who thinks everyone around him is an idiot;

A female university teacher in her thirties who had just gotten married was diagnosed with a terminal illness and had little time left;

A 69-year-old woman who has been divorced three times, feels lonely and desperate, and claims that if life doesn't get better, she will commit suicide on her 70th birthday;

A girl in her twenties who has a traumatic family background, alcoholism problems, and is frequently frustrated in love.

At the same time, there is a fifth person seeking help in the book, that is the therapist herself. She is a single working mother who suffered a breakup in her forties and almost collapsed. A friend said to her, "Maybe you should talk to someone," so she also found a psychotherapist for herself. When she switched to the position of the visitor, she sat on the sofa of another psychotherapist and told her...