Prompts winter weather advisories as cold air moves in Friday night

MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding. Turn up your support for this public resource and keep trusted journalism accessible to all. 

Turn Up Your Support

nearly 30 million Americans see a therapist

 — and some of those patients are therapists themselves. What does that mean? Simply that therapists are human.


That's the thesis of psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb's new book, "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone." Part memoir, part case study, the book follows five patients as they go through therapy — one of them Gottlieb herself. She is reeling after a breakup, and during her own turns on the couch, she questions the same things her own patients do: love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption. "A therapist will hold up a mirror to patients, but patients will also hold up a mirror to their therapists," she writes. "Therapy is far from one-sided; it happens in a parallel process."


MPR News host Kerri Miller talked with Gottlieb about her new book and about the realities of therapy — what it can, and can't, do for us.


Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and author of the new book 

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

This show is part of "Call To Mind" -- MPR's initiative to foster new conversations about mental health. Learn more at 

To listen to the full conversation you can use the audio player above.

Apple Podcasts

Google Podcasts

Spotify

Science

Shows

Big Books & Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller

Kerri Miller Brief

Kerri Miller

Author

Kelly Gordon

Nearly 30 million Americans a year seek therapy -- and that number includes therapists. A new book explores the power of being human and what therapy can, and can't, do.

When the therapist needs a therapist

Lori Gottlieb is a trained psychotherapist and author.

When the therapist needs a therapist

Go Deeper.

Like this?