What it is about
Lori Gottlieb is a practicing Therapist in Los Angeles when her life abruptly comes apart, and she does the thing she has spent her career recommending: she finds a Therapist of her own. What follows is told from both chairs at once, Gottlieb sitting across from her clients, and Gottlieb sitting across from Wendell, the wry, patient Clinician who slowly takes her defenses apart.
Alongside her own story run the stories of her clients: a Hollywood producer whose arrogance is armor, a newlywed university lecturer facing a terminal diagnosis, a woman in her sixties who has promised to end her life if nothing changes by her birthday, and a twenty-something who keeps choosing the wrong people. Gottlieb writes about them with warmth and precision, and through their stories you see what the work of Therapy looks like week by week.
By the end you have a clear picture of what happens in the Room: less advice than most People expect, and a relationship steady enough to change how a Person sees themselves.
