Name: Stick Figure: A Diary of my Former Self
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Author: Lori Gottlieb
ISBN: 9781439148907

portada Stick Figure: A Diary of my Former Self

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lori Gottlieb

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.4x14.7x1.4 cm

Weight

0.19 kg.

ISBN

1439148902

ISBN13

9781439148907

Synopsis "Stick Figure: A Diary of my Former Self "

Lori Gottlieb--psychotherapist, national advice columnist, and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone--shares her "gripping" (The Boston Globe) chronicle of adolescent anorexia that "stands out as a fresh, edgy take...on that perilous time in a girl's life when she's no longer a child but not quite an adult (Entertainment Weekly). For a girl growing up in Beverly Hills in 1978, the motto "You can never be too rich or too thin" is writ large. Precocious Lori learns her lessons well, so when she's told that "real women don't eat dessert" and "no one could ever like a girl who has thunder thighs," she decides to become a paragon of dieting. Soon Lori has become the "stick figure" she's longed to resemble. But then what? Stick Figure takes the reader on a gripping journey, as Lori struggles to reclaim both her body and her spirit. By turns painful and wry, Lori's efforts to reconcile the conflicting messages society sends women ring as true today as when she first recorded these impressions. "One diet book says that if you drink three full glasses of water one hour before every meal to fill yourself up, you'll lose a pound a day. Another book says that once you start losing weight, everyone will ask, 'How did you do it?' but you shouldn't tell them because it's 'your little secret.' Then right above that part it says, 'New York Times bestseller.' Some secret." Based on the author's childhood journals, Stick Figure is "a smart, funny, compassionate" (Entertainment Weekly) tale that delivers an engrossing glimpse into the mind of a girl in transition to adulthood and a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of living up to society's expectations.

Lori Gottlieb

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Lori Gottlieb es una escritora, psicoterapeuta y columnista estadounidense. Nació en Los Ángeles, California, y estudió en la Universidad de Yale, donde obtuvo su título universitario. Posteriormente, estudió medicina en la Universidad de Stanford, aunque decidió no continuar una carrera como médica y se dedicó a la psicología y a la escritura.

Gottlieb es conocida por combinar sus conocimientos sobre salud mental con experiencias de la vida cotidiana. Escribe sobre temas como las relaciones, la ansiedad, la pérdida, el bienestar emocional y las dificultades que enfrentan las personas.

Uno de sus libros más famosos es Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, publicado en 2019. En esta obra cuenta sus experiencias como terapeuta y también relata su propia experiencia al comenzar una terapia. El libro muestra que incluso los profesionales de la salud mental pueden necesitar ayuda y que hablar con un terapeuta puede ser útil para comprender mejor nuestras emociones y problemas.

Además de escribir libros, Lori Gottlieb trabaja como psicoterapeuta y escribe una columna de consejos para The Atlantic, llamada “Dear Therapist”. También participa en programas y podcasts relacionados con la salud mental.

Su trabajo ha ayudado a acercar la psicoterapia al público general y a demostrar la importancia de cuidar nuestra salud emocional.

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