Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

by Lori Gottlieb

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”

It’s impossible to get to know people deeply and not come to like them. We should take the world’s enemies, get them in a room to share their histories and formative experiences, their fears and their struggles, and global adversaries would suddenly get along.

Will you see the human in my being?

Patients want our patience but may not have much patience themselves.