![]() ![]() The reason a therapist can help a patient isn’t because they’re just “better at life” than the patient.The therapist’s role is to guide patients, not to tell them what to do. ![]() Therapy is about helping people understand themselves and take responsibility for their own lives.But if I had to take a stab, I would say the key takeaways for me are: It’s very difficult to summarise the key takeaways of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. The main focus of the book is on the stories, with Gottlieb’s observations being peripheral. However, my summary is not an accurate reflection of the time spent on each of these in the book. Then I try to group Gottlieb’s insights along some general themes. I first briefly outline the stories in Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (I’ve added spoiler warnings below as appropriate). ![]() This summary is therefore a bit different from my normal summaries. In that way, its structure is somewhat similar to Evicted by Matthew Desmond. ![]() She also intersperses her thoughts and observations on therapy and life throughout the book. However, Gottlieb writes in a narrative format more familiar to fiction. The book is non-fiction, with patients’ identifying details altered. One of those people is the author, Gottlieb, and we see her perspective both as a therapist and as a patient. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone gives us a peek into the therapy room, and the lives of five different people receiving therapy. ![]()
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