也许你该找个人聊聊 – Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

这是一位心理治疗师的回忆录，讲述了发生在诊室中的故事。在这个小小的密闭空间里，人们会展现出最真实、最脆弱的一面；也是在这里，人们获得了陪伴和倾听，也获得了宝贵的觉察、成长与改变。

在书中，我们会看到四个来访者的故事，他们是：

一个四十多岁、事业成功、自以为是，认为身边所有人都是蠢货的好莱坞制片人；

一个三十多岁、刚刚新婚就被诊断出患有绝症，时日不多的大学女教师；

一个六十九岁、离过三次婚，感觉孤独绝望，声称生活再不好转就要在七十岁生日当天自杀的老太太；

一个二十多岁、有原生家庭创伤和酗酒问题，在爱情中频频受挫的姑娘。

同时，书中还有第五个寻求帮助的人，那就是治疗师自己。她是一个单身的职场妈妈，四十多岁时遭遇失恋，几乎崩溃。有朋友对她说“或许你该找个人聊聊”，于是她也给自己找了一位心理治疗师。当她切换到来访者的位置，坐到另一位心理治疗师的沙发上诉说自己内心的脆弱与悲伤，就更能感受到心理治疗为何具有治愈和改变的力量。

这本书从治疗师和来访者的双重视角展现了心理治疗的过程，让我们发现：无论身份背景有多相异，人类面对的烦恼其实都相通——爱与被爱、遗憾、选择、控制、不确定、死亡，这些都是我们身而为人必须

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.

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