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

by Lori Gottlieb

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Gottlieb interweaves her work as a psychotherapist with her own collapse into therapy after a breakup, arguing that insight alone rarely changes behavior - what heals is the relationship with a therapist who can tolerate the patient's pain without rushing to fix it. She demystifies the therapeutic process through four patient stories and her own, showing how people construct the narratives that trap them.

Published:: 2019
Pages:: 432

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In this collection, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed references 5 other books.

It draws on Man's Search for Meaning, The Body Keeps the Score and Emotional Intelligence.

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Draws extensively on Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, using logotherapy's insight that finding meaning in suffering is central to therapeutic change

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Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Frankl

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References van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score on trauma held somatically, applied to her patients' physical symptoms and dissociation

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The Body Keeps the Score

by Bessel van der Kolk

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Uses Goleman's Emotional Intelligence framework to explain how emotional literacy develops inside the therapy relationship, not through books alone

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Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman

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Engages Brene Brown's Dare to Lead ideas on vulnerability and shame resilience as the core emotional work happening in her patients' sessions

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Dare to Lead

by Brene Brown

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Echoes Tolle's The Power of Now on rumination and present-moment awareness as the ground where therapeutic change actually happens

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The Power of Now

by Eckhart Tolle

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The Gifts of Imperfection

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Dare to Lead

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