Christie Tate

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK 'Every page of this incredible memoir by Christie Tate had me thinking, “I wish I had read this book when I was 25. It would have helped me so much!”' Reese Witherspoon ‘This unrestrained memoir is a transporting experience and one of the most startlingly hopeful books I have ever read. It will make you want to get better, whatever better means for you.’ Lisa Taddeo, New York Times bestselling author of Three Women For fans of Three Women and Everything I Know About Love comes a refreshingly original memoir about self-discovery, loneliness and love. A guarded young lawyer reluctantly joins a psychotherapy group where she has to share her innermost thoughts with six complete strangers. In turn she finds human connection, and herself. “What’s going to happen to me when I start group?” “All of your secrets are going to come out.” Christie Tate has just been named the top student in her law school class and seems to finally have got her eating disorder under control. So why is she driving through Chicago fantasising about her own death? Desperate, she joins Dr Rosen’s psychotherapy group, and through his unconventional methods, he challenges everything she thought she knew, about herself and others. In group, secrets are not allowed. This means telling a group of strangers everything – about her struggle with bulimia, her failed sex life, her overwhelming sense of loneliness and acute longing for a relationship. And as she keeps sharing her thoughts and feelings and listens to the others doing the same, her life slowly begins to change. This is a deliciously compelling read, and an intimate journey through the daring, exhilarating, painful, and hilarious journey that is group therapy – a process that breaks you down, and then reassembles you so that all the pieces finally fit. Praise for Group ‘This book will remind you how to come back to yourself even when you want to give up, make you laugh, make you cry, help you breathe. This book will save lives’ Lidia Yuknavitch ‘Real transformation is not for the faint of heart, and in these pages Christie Tate captures her evolution in all its misery and hilarity, along with the beauty of bearing witness to one another as we grow.’ Sarah Hepola ‘Christie Tate takes us on a journey that's heartbreaking and hilarious, surprising and redemptive – and, ultimately, a testament to the power of connection.’ Lori Gottlie

How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

Group

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The refreshingly original and “startlingly hopeful” (Lisa Taddeo) debut memoir of an over-achieving young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to group therapy and gets psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers—and finds human connection, and herself. Christie Tate had just been named the top student in her law school class and finally had her eating disorder under control. Why then was she driving through Chicago fantasizing about her own death? Why was she envisioning putting an end to the isolation and sadness that still plagued her despite her achievements? Enter Dr. Rosen, a therapist who calmly assures her that if she joins one of his psychotherapy groups, he can transform her life. All she has to do is show up and be honest. About everything—her eating habits, childhood, sexual history, etc. Christie is skeptical, insisting that that she is defective, beyond cure. But Dr. Rosen issues a nine-word prescription that will change everything: “You don’t need a cure. You need a witness.” So begins her entry into the strange, terrifying, and ultimately life-changing world of group therapy. Christie is initially put off by Dr. Rosen’s outlandish directives, but as her defenses break down and she comes to trust Dr. Rosen and to depend on the sessions and the prescribed nightly phone calls with various group members, she begins to understand what it means to connect. “Often hilarious, and ultimately very touching” (People), Group is “a wild ride” (The Boston Globe), and with Christie as our guide, we are given a front row seat to the daring, exhilarating, painful, and hilarious journey that is group therapy—an under-explored process that breaks you down, and then reassembles you so that all the pieces finally fit.

How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

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De Amerikaanse schrijfster vertelt over haar ervaringen tijdens groepstherapie.

hoe een therapeut en een stel vreemden mijn leven hebben gered

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"Was wird mit mir geschehen, wenn ich der Gruppe beitrete?" "All deine Geheimnisse werden ans Licht kommen." Christie Tate ist jung, erfolgreich und ... will nicht mehr leben. Zunächst widerwillig schließt sich die zurückhaltende, ehrgeizige Anwältin einer Psychotherapiegruppe an, um sich in einem Raum mit sechs Fremden emotional zu entblößen. Christie lässt die Gruppe an ihrer Kindheit und den psychischen Folgen im Erwachsenenleben teilhaben: ihr Kampf gegen Bulimie, ihr gescheitertes Sexualleben, das überwältigende Gefühl der Einsamkeit und die akute Sehnsucht nach einer Beziehung. Im Gegenzug für ihre schonungslose Ehrlichkeit erfährt sie endlich Nähe und findet zu sich selbst. Ein hoffnungsvolles Memoir, das seelische Tiefpunkte nicht verschweigt und zeigt, wie menschlicher Kontakt Leben retten kann. "Auf jeder Seite dieses unglaublichen Memoirs von Christie Tate dachte ich: Ich wünschte, ich hätte dieses Buch gelesen, als ich 25 war. Es hätte mir so sehr geholfen!" Reese Witherspoon "Oft wahnsinnig komisch und am Ende doch unglaublich berührend." People "Dieses unbändige Memoir ist ein mitreißendes Erlebnis und eines der erstaunlich hoffnungsvollsten Bücher, die ich je gelesen habe." Lisa Taddeo (Autorin des Spiegel-Bestsellers "Three Women")

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