Table Of Content

Front Flap Page: Front Flap Front Matter Page: i Half Title Page: i Other Books by this Author Page: ii Title Page: iii Copyright Page: iv Epigraphs Page: v Author's Note Page: vii Contents Page: ix Part One Page: 1 1. Idiots Page: 3 2. If the Queen Had Balls Page: 11 3. The Space of a Step Page: 18 4. The Smart One or the Hot One Page: 23 5. Namast’ay in Bed Page: 28 6. Finding Wendell Page: 34 7. The Beginning of Knowing Page: 41 8. Rosie Page: 50 9. Snapshots of Ourselves Page: 57 10. The Future Is Also the Present Page: 59 11. Goodbye, Hollywood Page: 68 12. Welcome to Holland Page: 74 13. How Kids Deal with Grief Page: 81 14. Harold and Maude Page: 84 15. Hold the Mayo Page: 89 16. The Whole Package Page: 99 17. Without Memory or Desire Page: 109 Part Two Page: 117 18. Fridays at Four Page: 119 19. What We Dream Of Page: 126 20. The First Confession Page: 130 21. Therapy with a Condom On Page: 136 22. Jail Page: 148 23. Trader Joe’s Page: 155 24. Hello, Family Page: 160 25. The UPS Guy Page: 172 26. Embarrassing Public Encounters Page: 176 27. Wendell’s Mother Page: 183 28. Addicted Page: 190 29. The Rapist Page: 198 30. On the Clock Page: 208 Part Three Page: 215 31. My Wandering Uterus Page: 217 32. Emergency Session Page: 225 33. Karma Page: 232 34. Just Be Page: 239 35. Would You Rather? Page: 242 36. The Speed of Want Page: 255 37. Ultimate Concerns Page: 262 38. Legoland Page: 269 39. How Humans Change Page: 281 40. Fathers Page: 288 41. Integrity Versus Despair Page: 295 42. My Neshama Page: 305 43. What Not to Say to a Dying Person Page: 309 44. Boyfriend’s Email Page: 314 45. Wendell’s Beard Page: 318 Part Four Page: 325 46. The Bees Page: 327 47. Kenya Page: 335 48. Psychological Immune System Page: 337 49. Counseling Versus Therapy Page: 346 50. Deathzilla Page: 352 51. Dear Myron Page: 358 52. Mothers Page: 366 53. The Hug Page: 372 54. Don’t Blow It Page: 378 55. It’s My Party and You’ll Cry if You Want To Page: 388 56. Happiness Is Sometimes Page: 395 57. Wendell Page: 403 58. A Pause in the Conversation Page: 408 Back Matter Page: 413 Acknowledgments Page: 413 Back Flap Page: Back Flap Back Cover Page: Back Cover Spine Page: Spine

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Now being developed as a television series with Eva Longoria and ABC! “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 “This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book.”—Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post and Founder & CEO, Thrive Global “Wise, warm, smart, and funny. You must read this book.”—Susan Cain, New York Times best-selling author of Quiet From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist’s world—where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she). One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, 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 — 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 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 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.