from Yggie

What an amazing book, really really lovely. Thought provoking and compassionate, I'll be rereading this.

from KarenOdden

Insightful, compassionate, and engagingly written, this is a memoir of a woman who is both in therapy for herself and providing therapy to her patients in Los Angeles. For me, the book recalled the years I spent in therapy in New York, when I was in graduate school in my early thirties, with so m...

from BoundTogetherForGood

I really enjoyed this non fiction selection. In it, Gottlieb alternately goes from describing a few of her patients and their current struggles, to describing the struggles she is going through, herself. The enlightenment she attains is lovely. I better understand the need people sometimes have f...

from rglossne

Therapist and advice columnist Lori Gottlieb's entertaining memoir is a look at the therapeutic process. We meet some of her patients: a young woman with a terminal cancer diagnosis, an older woman who believes that she has nothing left to live for, a hot TV executive dealing with a lot of repres...

from carolfoisset

My college major was psychology, so I do enjoy these types of books. It was an interesting read.