Gottlieb: I think that we look at our physical health differently from our emotional health and we shouldn’t. Q: Instead of waiting until there’s a catastrophic life crisis, do you think people would benefit from treating mental health like physical health and seeking preventive care? More: 5 books not to miss: 'Lady in the Lake,' 'Crisis in the Red Zone,' 'Helpline'
We always like to say you have to be both vulnerable and accountable in therapy. … Some people think that therapy is a place where you go, you download the problem of the week, you leave, you don’t think about it during the week, you come back, and it’s almost like your sessions are in amber, they’re not connected to the outside world. That sort of keeps people from wanting to seek help. The biggest misconception out there about therapy is you come into therapy, you’re going to talk about your childhood ad nauseam and you’ll never leave. Lori Gottlieb: I think some do, and I think that they’re pleasantly surprised when they find out what it really is. Question: Do you think a lot of new patients come in with the wrong idea of what therapy is?
Gottlieb spoke by phone with USA TODAY to discuss her book, which has spent 15 weeks on the USA TODAY Best-Selling Books list since its publication in April. Yes, even therapists need therapists, one of Gottlieb’s many insights she hopes will shatter readers’ preconceived notions about therapy and get them to, well, talk to somebody. It takes readers from the therapist’s chair to the patient’s couch, first as Gottlieb helps her patients navigate their lives and implement solutions to improve them, and then as she herself seeks professional guidance to cope with an unexpected breakup.
Part autobiography and part self-help book, “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone” is shot through with candor and humor. Now a licensed therapist with her own practice, she's ending up back at Hollywood, where her new book, “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone,” is being adapted into a television show with Eva Longoria and ABC. Gottlieb’s career path was a winding and circuitous one that took her from Hollywood, where she got her start as a television writer, to medical school to journalism to psychoanalysis. And both have millions of users, most of whom keep their use private.” “Therapy elicits odd reactions because, in a way, it’s like pornography,” Gottlieb writes. Therapy isn’t like it used to be, and neither are the books written about it.
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