That’s because it allowed her to gain firsthand knowledge of how therapy works from the perspective of the patient.
Like many therapists, she ended up seeing another mental health professional.Ī therapist sitting on another therapist’s couch – that might sound like the setup to a bad joke, but in the author’s case, it laid the groundwork for some tremendous insights. If you knew someone who was suffering from a serious personal crisis or mental illness, such as divorce or depression, what advice would you give them? Perhaps you might say the words that form the title of the book that this book summary are based on: “Maybe you should talk to someone.” And that “someone,” in this case, would be a therapist.īut what if the person with the problem happened to be a therapist themselves? That’s precisely the situation the author found herself in when she started suffering a crisis of her own.
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