![]() “We’re very on it with our physical health, but we don’t value our emotional health. “It almost sounds like a cliche at this point, but I really do think we have a mental health crisis in this country,” she said. Gottlieb, who writes a weekly advice column in the Atlantic, hopes her book can demystify therapy, which she wishes more people could benefit from. In “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone,” Gottlieb describes therapy from both sides - as a patient with Wendell, and as a practitioner with a parade of patients of her own, including an angry man in midlife, a young woman dying of cancer, and an old woman confronting life’s regrets. Nothing unusual there, but for Gottlieb, who is herself both a therapist and a writer, the work she did with Wendell (a pseudonym) led not only to insight but also to a new book. After a devastating breakup, Lori Gottlieb found a new therapist. ![]()
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