Looking for a book where the story follows a person who is actively in therapy/receiving some sort of mental health care from a supportive mental health professional OR is from the perspective of a mental health professional.
Not all of the therapists in the book have to be good people but I want the focus of the book to be on healing from trauma/abnormal psychology with a therapist who seems to understand their patient. Any genre is fine though I usually prefer fiction over nonfiction.
Having an autistic/ADHD main character is a huge bonus for me!
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How Not to Drown in a Glass of WaterÂ
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – Lori Gottlieb
A great dive into a therapists experience in therapy.
Irvin Yalom has written some great fiction and non-fiction about therapy and therapists.
For non-fiction I can really reccomend *You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life*, by Benji Waterhouse (follows an NHS psychiatrist in the UK, funny like Adam Kay), and *Maybe You Should Talk to Someone* by Lori Gottlieb (from the perspective of a therapist, I can recommend the audiobook). I’m not the biggest fan of non-fiction generally, but these are both very readable!
The Portnoy Complaint by Phillip Roth.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman
I can give you one to avoid – *Happiness Forever* by Adelaide Faith. One of the worst books I’ve ever read
Anxious People by Frederik Backman fits this!
I know this much is true by Wally Lamb
August by Judith Rossner
Other Women by Lisa Alther
both fiction about women in therapy.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can.
The Three Faces of Eve.
Sybil.
Ordinary People.
Alison Bechdel writes a lot about therapy and therapists, especially in Are You My Mother?