| Descript |
xi, 415 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Summary |
"From 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)"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Gottlieb, a therapist with a Los Angeles practice, faced a crisis that caused her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist who seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. Now 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. -- adapted from jacket |
| Contents |
Part one Idiots If the Queen had balls ; The space of a step ; The smart one or the hot one ; Namast'ay in bed ; Finding Wendell ; The beginning of knowing ; Rosie ; Snapshots of ourselves ; The future is also the present ; Goodbye, Hollywood ;Welcome to Holland ; How kids deal with grief ; Harold and Maude ; Hold the mayo ; The whole package ; Without memory or desire -- Part two. Fridays at four ; What we dream of ; The first confession ; Therapy with a condom on ; Jail ;Trader Joe's ; Hello, family ; The UPS guy ; Embarrassing public encounters ; Wendell's mother ; Addicted tThe rapist ; On the clock -- Part three. My wandering uterus ; Emergency session ; Karma tJust be ; Would you rather? ; The speed of want ; Ultimate concerns ; Legoland ; How humans change ; Fathers tIntegrity versus despair ; My neshama ; What not to say to a dying person ; Boyfriend's email ; Wendell's beard -- Part four. The bees ; Kenya ; Psychological immune system ; Counseling versus therapy ; Deathzilla ; Dear Myron ; Mothers ; The hug ; Don't blow it ; It's my party and you'll cry if you want to ; Happiness is sometimes ; Wendell ; A pause in the conversation. |
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T1NF |
| Subject |
Gottlieb, Lori -- Health.
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Psychotherapists -- Biography.
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Therapist and patient -- Biography.
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| Genre |
Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781328662057 (hardcover) |
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1328662055 (hardcover) |
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