The Secret Lives of Therapists | Lori Gottlieb
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist (http://www.lorigottlieb.com/) and New York Times bestselling author who writes the weekly “Dear Therapist” advice column for The Atlantic.
She has written hundreds of articles related to psychology and culture, many of which have become viral sensations all over the world. A contributing editor for the Atlantic, she also writes for The New York Times Magazine, and appears as a frequent expert on relationships, parenting, and hot-button mental health topics in media such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Dr. Phil, CNN, and NPR.
Her latest book, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, (https://amzn.to/2Tj5UMZ) and this week's conversation is a revealing look at the inner thoughts, struggles and revelations of a therapist who finds herself on the "needing help" side of the conversation, and all the unexpected things this shift in dynamics brings up.
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| 0:00.0 | So, ever wonder what's really going on in the life and mind of a therapist? |
| 0:13.4 | Maybe you have it, but I certainly have. |
| 0:15.7 | And in today's conversation, I sit down with Laurie Gottlieb. |
| 0:20.0 | She is a psychotherapist and also a New York Times bestselling author and writer and journalist. |
| 0:25.5 | It's kind of fascinating to me as on the one hand, we explored the pursuit of these |
| 0:29.2 | dual paths, a writer and a journalist, and also a practicing psychotherapist. |
| 0:34.6 | And on the other hand, we really dive into where she goes in this most recent book. |
| 0:39.9 | Maybe you should talk to someone because it is her stepping into revealing a lot of the |
| 0:45.9 | details of her own life, her own struggles, her own thoughts about what it's like to be |
| 0:50.9 | on the other side of the chair in the psychotherapy room. |
| 0:55.2 | And the decision to actually write this and reveal this inner life while she is still |
| 1:00.6 | very much in private practice is something that was kind of fascinating to me. |
| 1:05.3 | So we go there and we explore a lot of really interesting ground, really excited to share |
| 1:09.8 | this conversation with you. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:21.7 | Taking me back, when is it actually I'm curious what you studied in school, sort of |
| 1:25.1 | like in college? |
| 1:26.2 | I studied French language and literature. |
| 1:28.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.6 | But I think it is. |
| 1:31.6 | But I think it is. |
| 1:32.6 | Right, but I think it is related. |
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