[Lyceum Academy] Reading "Maybe You Should Find Someone to Talk to" has a feeling
I thought the books on counseling were obscure and boring until I read Lori Gottlieb's book Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. The American writer is also a counselor, and she focuses on five psychotherapeutic processes from both the client's and her role as a therapist. Lori's previous work as an agent assistant, a Hollywood screenwriter, and a residency intern laid a good foundation for her subsequent psychological counseling, which was also written in this book. The content of the text is close to reality, and the feelings are natural, like the lives and thoughts of ourselves or those around us. Among these visitors are John, who often complains and blames her son's unexpected death on her own, Julie, who has cancer but is full of hope and longing for life, reita, a lonely old man who has experienced many divorces in recent years and has a strained relationship with her children, Charlotte, a young girl who is deeply influenced by her original family and has improper choices of the opposite sex, and charlotte, and the author herself --- a single mother who is plagued by diseases, who thought she had found true love, but suddenly lost love, when she was at a loss. A friend suggested to her: Maybe you should talk to someone. The "chat" referred to here is not simply preaching, but the counselor gradually guides the client to say his true thoughts through sincere listening, and several of the clients in the text finally come out of the shadow that deeply troubles them through professional psychological counseling. Therefore, when we encounter problems that we are difficult to solve, we must find someone to talk to. Because emotions need to be cathartic, each of us longs to understand ourselves and to be understood. Only through quiet companionship and patient listening can we truly understand ourselves, walk through the darkness, embrace tomorrow, reconcile with ourselves, and have the ability to make changes.