With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

Yet he will turn out to be anything but.Īs Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives - a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a 20-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys - she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.

With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. You must read this book.' (Susan Cain, New York Times best-selling author of Quiet)įrom a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world - where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she). 'This is a daring, delightful, and transformative book.' (Arianna Huffington, founder, Huffington Post and founder & CEO, Thrive Global)

'Rarely have I read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing.' (Katie Couric) 'An irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition.' ( Kirkus, starred review) Now being developed as a television series with Eva Longoria and ABC!

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