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📘 '''''Maybe You Should Talk to Someone''''' is a 2019 memoir by psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. <ref name="OCLC1054264731" /> It follows Gottlieb both as a clinician and a patient, alternating her own therapy with anonymized casework to demystify what happens in the consulting room. <ref name="PWReview2019">{{cite web |title=Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781328662057 |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=PWxyz, LLC |date=25 March 2019 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> The narrative is divided into four parts. <ref name="SchlowTOC2019" /> It comprises 58 brief chapters and uses a candid, conversational register to blend humor with clinical insight. <ref name="WaPo2019Sheehan">{{cite news |last=Sheehan |first=Susan |title=What does your therapist really think of you? One doc bares it all in a new book. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/what-does-your-therapist-really-think-of-you-one-doc-bares-it-all-in-a-new-book/2019/04/19/a7b127dc-50c1-11e9-8d28-f5149e5a2fda_story.html |work=The Washington Post |date=19 April 2019 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> Reviewers note its smooth, intimate tone—“entertainingly voyeuristic” yet empathetic. <ref name="Kirkus2019">{{cite web |title=Maybe You Should Talk to Someone |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/lori-gottlieb/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/ |website=Kirkus Reviews |publisher=Kirkus Media |date=2 February 2019 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> The book debuted at #9 on the Publishers Weekly Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction list for the week of 15 April 2019, with 9,055 first-week print units. <ref name="PWBestsellers20190415">{{cite web |title=Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction — April 15, 2019 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/nielsen/hardcovernonfiction/20190415.html |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=PWxyz, LLC |date=15 April 2019 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> TIME later named it one of the “100 Must-Read Books of 2019,” and the author reports over three million copies sold in 30+ languages. <ref name="Time2019">{{cite web |title=Maybe You Should Talk to Someone |url=https://time.com/collection/must-read-books-2019/5724582/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/ |website=Time |publisher=Time USA, LLC |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref><ref name="AuthorBio">{{cite web |title=About Lori Gottlieb |url=https://lorigottlieb.com/about/ |website=LoriGottlieb.com |publisher=Lori Gottlieb |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref>
== Chapter summary ==
''This outline follows the Thorndike Press large-print edition (2019), reproducing the book’s four-part table of contents.''<ref name="SchlowTOC2019">{{cite web |title=Table of Contents: Maybe you should talk to someone [LP] |url=https://search.schlowlibrary.org/Record/446417/TOC |website=Schlow Centre Region Library |publisher=Schlow Centre Region Library |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> ''First U.S. hardcover edition: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2 April 2019), xi, 415 pages, ISBN 978-1-328-66205-7.''<ref name="OCLC1054264731">{{cite web |title=Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/Maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone-%3A-a-therapist-her-therapist-and-our-lives-revealed/oclc/1054264731 |website=WorldCat.org |publisher=OCLC |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref><ref name="Harper2019">{{cite web |title=Maybe You Should Talk to Someone |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone-lori-gottlieb |website=HarperCollins |publisher=HarperCollins |date=2 April 2019 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref>
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== Background & reception ==
🖋️ '''Author & writing'''. Gottlieb is a practicing psychotherapist who also writes the Atlantic’s “Dear Therapist” column and co-hosts the iHeart “Dear Therapists” podcast. <ref name="AtlanticDearTherapist">{{cite web |title=Dear Therapist |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/projects/dear-therapist/ |website=The Atlantic |publisher=The Atlantic |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref><ref name="iHeartPodcast">{{cite web |title=Dear Therapists with Lori Gottlieb and Guy Winch |url=https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-dear-therapists-with-lori-68853191/ |website=iHeartRadio |publisher=iHeartMedia |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> The memoir grew out of her own course of therapy after a breakup and interweaves that experience with patients’ stories to explain core ideas of talk therapy in plain language. <ref name="KCUR2019">{{cite news |title=A Psychotherapist Goes To Therapy — And Gets A Taste Of Her Own Medicine |url=https://www.kcur.org/2019-04-01/a-psychotherapist-goes-to-therapy-and-gets-a-taste-of-her-own-medicine |work=KCUR (NPR) |date=1 April 2019 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref><ref name="PWReview2019" /> Structurally, she alternates her sessions with “Wendell” and case narratives; the U.S. hardcover is arranged in four parts and 58 concise chapters. <ref name="PWReview2019" /><ref name="SchlowTOC2019" /><ref name="WaPo2019Sheehan" /> In media interviews she emphasized permissions and the altering or combining of identifying details when portraying patients. <ref name="EW2019">{{cite news |last=Canfield |first=David |title=Lori Gottlieb’s ''Maybe You Should Talk to Someone'' will change the way you look at therapy — and life |url=https://ew.com/author-interviews/2019/04/04/lori-gottlieb-maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/ |work=Entertainment Weekly |date=4 April 2019 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> Critics frequently describe the voice as smooth, candid, and humane. <ref name="Kirkus2019" />
📈 '''Commercial reception'''. The book debuted at #9 on Publishers Weekly’s Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction (week of 15 April 2019), selling 9,055 print units, and remained a presence on later lists (e.g., #13 on 8 July 2019). <ref name="PWBestsellers20190415" /><ref name="PWBestsellers20190708">{{cite web |title=Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction — July 8, 2019 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/nielsen/HardcoverNonfiction/20190708.html |website=Publishers Weekly |publisher=PWxyz, LLC |date=8 July 2019 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> It also appeared on the American Booksellers Association’s Indie Bestseller lists in April 2019. <ref name="Indie20190417">{{cite web |title=Indie Bestseller Lists: April 17, 2019 |url=https://www.bookweb.org/indie-bestseller-lists/april-17-2019 |website=American Booksellers Association |publisher=ABA |date=17 April 2019 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> TIME named it one of the “100 Must-Read Books of 2019.” <ref name="Time2019" /> According to the author’s official bio, it has sold over three million copies and been translated into more than 30 languages. <ref name="AuthorBio" />
👍 '''Praise'''. Kirkus gave a starred review, calling it “an irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition” and “a vivacious portrait of a therapist from both sides of the couch.” <ref name="Kirkus2019" /> Publishers Weekly praised its “sparkling and sometimes moving” account and noted its usefulness for both prospective clients and experienced therapists. <ref name="PWReview2019" /> The Washington Post highlighted the book’s momentum and the “joy” of watching patients’ and therapist’s emotions evolve over time. <ref name="WaPo2019Sheehan" /> The ''New Statesman'' described it as an “accessible, informal and very personal” therapy memoir. <ref name="NewStatesman2019">{{cite news |title=Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is a warm, engaging therapy memoir |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2019/06/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone-lori-gottlieb-review |work=New Statesman |date=26 June 2019 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref>
👎 '''Criticism'''. In the Washington Post, Susan Sheehan faulted passages for “psychobabble,” jargon, and overuse of expletives while acknowledging the book’s narrative pull. <ref name="WaPo2019Sheehan" /> Kirkus’s description of the reading experience as “entertainingly voyeuristic” underscored concerns some readers may have about boundaries when real clinical material is rendered for a general audience. <ref name="Kirkus2019" /> Entertainment Weekly raised ethical questions about confidentiality; Gottlieb responded that patient permissions were obtained and details altered or combined—an exchange that reflects ongoing debates about therapist memoirs. <ref name="EW2019" />
🌍 '''Impact & adoption'''. ABC put a scripted TV drama based on the book into development with Eva Longoria and Maggie Friedman, a project the author continues to note on her site. <ref name="Deadline2018">{{cite news |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |title=ABC Nabs 'Maybe You Should Talk To Someone' Therapist Drama From Maggie Friedman & Eva Longoria Based On Book |url=https://deadline.com/2018/10/abc-maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone-drama-maggie-friedman-eva-longoria-lori-gottlieb-1202493162/ |work=Deadline |date=31 October 2018 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref><ref name="AuthorSiteTV">{{cite web |title=Maybe You Should Talk to Someone |url=https://lorigottlieb.com/books/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/ |website=LoriGottlieb.com |publisher=Lori Gottlieb |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref> Public-facing programs and media have featured the book and its themes, including a PBS “A Word on Words” segment (2020) and library author-talk events. <ref name="PBS2020">{{cite web |title=Maybe You Should Talk to Someone |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone-lori-gottlieb-npt-92ofcg/ |website=NPT / PBS |publisher=Nashville Public Television |date=10 June 2020 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref><ref name="SalinasLibrary2024">{{cite web |title=Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: Examining the Truths and Fictions We Tell Ourselves — Author Talk with Lori Gottlieb |url=https://libraryc.org/salinaspubliclibrary/58216 |website=Salinas Public Library |publisher=City of Salinas |date=22 October 2024 |access-date=27 October 2025}}</ref>
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