Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Don't Waste Time with this Id Platitude Made for TV

Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist, writer and contributor to The Atlantic.  The genre of her latest book "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone" generates a pastiche of psycho babble, self-help & self-grandiose memoir.  The most honest classification would call it out as a TV script.  Gottlieb own's up towards the end of her voyeuristic psychotherapy sessions as both patient & psychotherapist, "turning these late night laptop sessions into a real book."  She also flatters herself without fooling anyone that perhaps "{she'll} decide to use my own experience to help others."  Gottlieb's gregarious back-story to her life story as a writer/psychotherapist is grandstanding into her elite erudite education & positions as script writer in LA.  You don't have to be Sherlock to stumble on "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone" is written under an altruistic guise to benefit her readers by learning from her work as a therapist and from her own therapy sessions.  Read between the lines - this is flippant entertainment that could garner a TV sitcom.   Eva Longoria picked up the rights from Gottlieb's book with the intent of turning into a TV series.  The most driving character is Gottlieb's client, John, the top writer for a popular TV show.  John begins his therapy as an abrasive asshole who calls everyone an idiot.  The books' characters' identities & issues are given a disclosure of obscurity but consider the ethicality of this voyeuristic exploitation into patients' sessions.  Gottlieb drags us into her role as patient working with Wendell (a nom de plum as in Oliver Wendell Holmes perhaps?).   Her reason for seeking advice seems trifling; a break-up with the Boyfriend.  Without intending, Gottlieb gob smacks the seriousness of seeking what for many would be beneficial if not essential means to improved mental health.   The phalanx of platitudes prescribed are unenlightening,"We can't have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same."  Furthermore, Lori is a shameless self-promoter "I believe that of all my credentials, my most significant is I'm a card carrying member of the human race."  The most sagacious sane advice comes from Lori's hairdresser "just be - let it be."  Save yourself time and money.  Get your hair done & garner some smart lifestyle wisdom simultaneously. John, Lori's most colorful character writes a therapist into his sitcom and ends her therapy with Wendell dancing together to "Let it Be."  Puh-leeze.