Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

by Lori Gottlieb

Gottlieb does something genuinely daring here: she writes as both therapist and patient simultaneously, using her own crisis — a broken engagement, a stalled life — to interrogate the same resistance and self-deception she witnesses in her clients. The parallel structure is the book's real argument, not just its device. The prose is warm and unshowy, occasionally too tidy, but the emotional honesty earns it. This works best for anyone sitting with something unexamined — grief, stagnation, the suspicion that they're the problem in their own story. It's therapy-adjacent without being prescriptive, and surprisingly funny.