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Jennifer asked this question about Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed:
I really, really enjoyed this book, but my question is: how was Gottlieb able to write so freely and her patients and their issues? I am assuming that all names have been changed and she also might have changed some specific characteristics and gotten permission, but I'm just curious how this all worked?
Deirdre K I was plagued by the same question. I’m just used to an author who writes about patients sharing from the beginning that the names and identifying det…moreI was plagued by the same question. I’m just used to an author who writes about patients sharing from the beginning that the names and identifying details were changed. I listened to this on audio so maybe the print version addresses this. I finally found an LA Times interview with the author that confirms she wrote about her patients with their permission and the details changed. Still—it makes me wonder which parts of specific characters were fiction and which parts were nonfiction. I loved imagining John as the writer of Mad Men, but is he a writer at all?

It reads so much like a novel, I’m surprised the author didn’t just use her story as inspiration for a novel.(less)
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