ONE. Idiots ; If the Queen had balls ; The space of a step ; The smart one or the hot one ; Namast'ay in bed ; Finding Wendell ; The beginning of knowing ; Rosie ; Snapshots of ourselves ; The future is also the present ; Goodbye, Hollywood ; Welcome to Holland ; How kids deal with grief ; Harold and Maude ; Hold the mayo ; The whole package ; Without memory or desire -- TWO. Fridays at four ; What we dream of ; The first confession ; Therapy with a condom on ; Jail ; Trader Joe's ; Hello, family ; The UPS guy ; Embarrassing public encounters ; Wendell's mother ; Addicted ; The rapist ; On the clock -- THREE. My wandering uterus ; Emergency session ; Karma ; Just be ; Would you rather? ; The speed of want ; Ultimate concerns ; Legoland ; How humans change ; Fathers ; Integrity versus despair ; My neshama ; What not to say to a dying person ; Boyfriend's email ; Wendell's beard -- FOUR. The bees ; Kenya ; Psychological immune system ; Counseling versus therapy ; Deathzilla ; Dear Myron ; Mothers ; The hug ; Don't blow it ; It's my party and you'll cry if you want to ; Happiness is sometimes ; Wendell ; A pause in the conversation.
Summary, etc.:
Gottlieb, a therapist with a Los Angeles practice, faced a crisis that caused her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist who seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. Now Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change. -- adapted from jacket
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