Staying with someone from the beginning of their story to the end really helped me focus on their psychological growth and understand how the therapy worked. Each part covers the start-to-finish treatment of one patient, and I loved this structure. Gottlieb’s 368-page professional memoir is broken into five parts. Case in point, a woman whose hateful mother greeted her each day with, “good morning, monster.” Rather, they were just people trying to be functioning adults after horrible (HORRIBLE) childhoods. I was actually surprised to find that the patients she profiled weren’t psychopaths given the “monster” in the primary title. The book’s subtitle - A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery - is the perfect content summary. Meanwhile, Catherine Gildiner’s lesser-known Good Morning, Monster only has 2,298. Well, I found her, and she’s a monster.Īs of today, Lori Gottlieb’s therapy-themed memoir has 152,020 Goodreads ratings. I recently wrapped up my 3-star review of the uber-popular Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by saying maybe I should talk to someone…else.
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