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

by Lori Gottlieb

Wendell—thank you for seeing my neshama, even (and especially) when I couldn’t. It’s an understatement to say that I feel so lucky to have landed in your office when I did.

My personal favorite take-away from the book comes from the session in which Wendell tells me about the cartoon of the prisoner, shaking the bars, desperately trying to get out. But, he adds, on the right and the left, the bars are open. All the person has to do is walk around those bars—but many of us don’t. It was such a paradigm shift: Why are so many of us acting as our own jailers?