Heidi Stevens: Therapist … turned patient … turned author with a TV series in the works
Lori Gottlieb, a therapist, found herself in need of a therapist.
Is that so odd? A cardiologist doesn't perform her own angioplasty. A dentist doesn't do his own root canal. Healers need healing.
It's complicated though. Ethical considerations prevented Gottlieb from seeing anyone already in her orbit - one of the many therapists she knows, a fellow school parent who happens to be a therapist, a friend's sister with a private practice.
"My predicament conjures that (poet Samuel Taylor) Coleridge line, 'Water, water everywhere/Not
