Maybe you should talk to someone.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

This is a memoir by a psychotherapist, telling stories that happened in the consulting room. In this small, enclosed space, people reveal their truest and most vulnerable side; it is also here that they receive companionship and listening, and also gain valuable awareness, growth, and change.
In the book, we will see the stories of four visitors, they are:
A successful, self-righteous Hollywood producer in his forties who thinks everyone around him is an idiot;
A university teacher in her thirties, newly married, was diagnosed with a terminal illness and had little time left;
A 69-year-old woman who has been divorced three times, feels lonely and desperate, and claims that if life doesn't get better, she will commit suicide on her 70th birthday;
A girl in her twenties who has a history of family trauma, alcoholism, and is frequently frustrated in love.
The book also features a fifth person seeking help: the therapist herself. A single, working mother in her forties, she suffered a breakup and nearly collapsed. A friend suggested, "Maybe you should talk to someone," so she sought out a therapist herself. When she transitions to the client's perspective, sitting on another therapist's couch and confiding her inner vulnerability and grief, we can even more deeply appreciate the healing and transformative power of psychotherapy.
This book reveals the psychotherapy process from the perspectives of both therapist and client, allowing us to discover that, regardless of our diverse backgrounds, the struggles we face are universal: loving and being loved, regret, choice, control, uncertainty, and death—these are all issues we must collectively learn to face as human beings. The real-life pain and life dilemmas we face resonate with and offer hope in this book.
This book was a highly recommended self-help book by numerous US media outlets in 2019. It made the annual must-read lists of publications like The New York Times, Time, People, and Variety, was a top-10 Amazon bestseller of the year, and a Harvard Business School recommended book. Its audiobook also topped Audible's nonfiction audiobook chart. Within a month of its release, the book reached the top 100 Amazon books and the New York Times bestseller list. Two years after its publication, it has been licensed in over 40 languages ​​worldwide, with sales exceeding 700,000 copies. A television series is currently in development, starring Eva Longoria, the renowned actress from Desperate Housewives.
Irvin Yalom, a world-renowned psychology leader and professor emeritus of psychiatry at Stanford University, wrote a recommendation for this book: "I have been reading books on psychotherapy for over half a century, but I have never seen a book like this: so bold, so straightforward, with so many good stories, yet so profound and fascinating."
Li Songwei, a renowned psychologist in China, served as a professional reviewer for this book and wrote a preface recommending it: "Reading this book is like exploring the inner world of your soul. The deeper you go, the darker and deeper it becomes, and you can hear thunder in the silence."

2021-07-28

上海文化出版社

Guomai Culture

460

9787553522838