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

by Lori Gottlieb

In the best case, the ending feels organic. There might be more to do, but we’ve done a lot, enough. The patient feels good—more resilient, more flexible, more able to navigate daily life. We’ve helped them hear the questions they

didn’t even know they were asking: Who am I? What do I want? What’s in my way?

seems silly, though, to deny that therapy is also about forming deep attachments to peopl...

Nobody is going to save you, Wendell had said. Wendell didn’t save me, but he did help me to save myself.

that each of our sessions wasn’t a discrete conversation but a continuing one and that the time between sessions was just a pause, not a period.

Relationships in life don’t really end, even if you never see the person again. Every person you’ve been close to lives on somewhere inside you. Your past lovers, your parents, your friends, people both alive and dead (symbolically

or literally)—all of them evoke memories, conscious or not. Often they inform how you relate to yourself and others. Sometimes you have conversations with them in your head; sometimes they speak to you in your sleep.