Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
"screen-to-screen is, as a colleague once said, \"like doing therapy with a condom on.\""
— Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (2019)
Introduction
| Maybe You Should Talk to Someone | |
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| Full title | Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed |
| Author | Lori Gottlieb |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Psychotherapy; Therapist and patient; Memoir |
| Genre | Nonfiction; Memoir |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Publication date | 2 April 2019 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover, paperback); e-book; audiobook |
| Pages | 415 |
| ISBN | 978-1-328-66205-7 |
| Website | lorigottlieb.com |
Chapter summary
This outline follows the Thorndike Press large-print edition (2019), reproducing the book’s four-part table of contents.[1] First U.S. hardcover edition: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2 April 2019), xi, 415 pages, ISBN 978-1-328-66205-7.[2][3]
I
🙄 1 – Idiots.
👑 2 – If the Queen had balls.
👣 3 – The space of a step.
🧠 4 – The smart one or the hot one.
🛌 5 – Namast'ay in bed.
🧭 6 – Finding Wendell.
🌅 7 – The beginning of knowing.
🌹 8 – Rosie.
📸 9 – Snapshots of ourselves.
⏳ 10 – The future is also the present.
🎬 11 – Goodbye, Hollywood.
🇳🇱 12 – Welcome to Holland.
🧒 13 – How kids deal with grief.
🎞️ 14 – Harold and Maude.
🥪 15 – Hold the mayo.
🎁 16 – The whole package.
🗂️ 17 – Without memory or desire.
II
⏰ 18 – Fridays at four.
💭 19 – What we dream of.
🗝️ 20 – The first confession.
🛡️ 21 – Therapy with a condom on.
🚓 22 – Jail.
🛒 23 – Trader Joe's.
👨👩👧👦 24 – Hello, family.
📦 25 – The UPS guy.
😳 26 – Embarrassing public encounters.
👵 27 – Wendell's mother.
⚠️ 28 – Addicted.
🚫 29 – The rapist.
🕒 30 – On the clock.
III
♀️ 31 – My wandering uterus.
🚑 32 – Emergency session.
🔄 33 – Karma.
🧘 34 – Just be.
❓ 35 – Would you rather?.
🏎️ 36 – The speed of want.
🕯️ 37 – Ultimate concerns.
🧱 38 – Legoland.
🦋 39 – How humans change.
👨 40 – Fathers.
⚖️ 41 – Integrity versus despair.
🕊️ 42 – My neshama.
🤐 43 – What not to say to a dying person.
📧 44 – Boyfriend's email.
🧔 45 – Wendell's beard.
IV
🐝 46 – The bees.
🇰🇪 47 – Kenya.
🩺 48 – Psychological immune system.
💬 49 – Counseling versus therapy.
🦖 50 – Deathzilla.
💌 51 – Dear Myron.
👩👧 52 – Mothers.
🤗 53 – The hug.
💥 54 – Don't blow it.
🎉 55 – It's my party and you'll cry if you want to.
🙂 56 – Happiness is sometimes.
🛋️ 57 – Wendell.
⏸️ 58 – A pause in the conversation.
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References
- ↑ "Table of Contents: Maybe you should talk to someone [LP]". Schlow Centre Region Library. Schlow Centre Region Library. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed". WorldCat.org. OCLC. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone". HarperCollins. HarperCollins. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2025.