23 Best memoir books like Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist by Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff

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Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

By: Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff

3.88

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

When Pinny started work as a psychotherapist, little did she imagine the shocking stories her clien…

"...if people ever knew who walks among us freely, they’d never leave their homes."

-Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

"...if people ever knew who walks among us freely, they’d never leave their homes."

-Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

"I'd imagined my job would involve playing jump rope and weaving lanyards, but, instead, I'd landed inside a jail for kids."

-Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

"I'd imagined my job would involve playing jump rope and weaving lanyards, but, instead, I'd landed inside a jail for kids."

-Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

If you liked the memoir plot in Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist by Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff , here is a list of 23 books like this:

Cover of The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me by Alex Tresniowski, Paul Joseph Fronczak

1. The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me

By: Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

"A gripping tale of secrets and self-discovery." --People The Foundlingtells the incredible and ins… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

2. The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar

By: Terri Cheney

3.94

Format: 264 pages,

Killing yourself at any age is a seriously tricky business. But when I was seven, the odds felt ins… read more

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Cover of Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery by Catherine Gildiner

3. Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

By: Catherine Gildiner

4.46

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents five of what she calls her m… read more

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  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Anger is a defense, not a feeling, ....analyze what feeling the anger was covering."

-Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

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4. Running From The Mirror

By: Howard Shulman

4.45

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that devoured his nose, l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Perhaps my story was never about my face but about the journey to arrive at a place of grace, which was far better than anything I could ever have imagined."

-Howard Shulman, Running From The Mirror

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5. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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6. The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

By: J. Thomas Grant

4.54

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Extraordinary encounters. Life-threatening diseases. Heroic actions. Instantaneous decisions. Unima… read more

Similar categories in J. Thomas Grant's The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine book and Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff's Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. Sometimes Therapy is Awkward

By: Nicole Arzt

3.90

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Sometimes therapy is awkward. And sometimes it's also painful, messy, and downright confusing. In i… read more

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  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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8. The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery

By: David Poses

4.23

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitc… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"From the beginning of high school, all other substances were readily available and liberally consumed by my friends, who used weed and booze like an essential garnish for activities. Peer pressure wa…"

-David Poses, The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery

"I didn’t want to be sad, but I didn’t know why I was sad or how not to be sad or how to talk about it. I was broken. I felt broken. My body ached. My stomach hurt. I couldn’t sleep. Nothing was pleas…"

-David Poses, The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery

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9. Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me

By: Erin Khar

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen.” — New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Erin Khar's Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me book and Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff's Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of Two Women Walk into a Bar by Cheryl Strayed

10. Two Women Walk into a Bar

By: Cheryl Strayed

4.06

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things , finds humor and connecti… read more

Similar categories in Cheryl Strayed's Two Women Walk into a Bar book and Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff's Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain by Emily Farris

11. I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain

By: Emily Farris

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A hilariously honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD… read more

Similar categories in Emily Farris's I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain book and Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff's Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of The Snipers We Couldn't See: A Memoir of Growing up with my Mother's Schizophrenia by Karen Comba

12. The Snipers We Couldn't See: A Memoir of Growing up with my Mother's Schizophrenia

By: Karen Comba

4.19

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

The Snipers We Couldn't See is Karen Comba's memoir of rare power, a harrowing and intimate portrai… read more

Similar categories in Karen Comba's The Snipers We Couldn't See: A Memoir of Growing up with my Mother's Schizophrenia book and Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff's Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

  • memoir
Cover of Playing Doctor; Part Three: Chief Resident: Fumbling Towards Medical Practice by John       Lawrence

13. Playing Doctor; Part Three: Chief Resident: Fumbling Towards Medical Practice

By: John Lawrence

4.28

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

READY TO FINALLY BE A DOCTOR? WELL, JOHN STILL WASN’T EITHER… John's medical (and personal) advent… read more

Similar categories in John Lawrence's Playing Doctor; Part Three: Chief Resident: Fumbling Towards Medical Practice book and Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff's Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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14. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

By: Lori Gottlieb

4.38

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

From a psychotherapist, and national advice columnist comes a thought-provoking new book that takes… read more

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  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Avoidance is a simple way of coping by not having to cope."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on, and pretending to feel a certain way isn’t one of them."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings."

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"One foot, then the other. Don't look at all five feet at once. Just take a step. And when you've taken that step, take one more. Eventually you'll make it to the shower. And you'll make it to tomorro…"

-Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Cover of Sessions: Memoirs of a Psychotherapist by Kathryn Foster

15. Sessions: Memoirs of a Psychotherapist

By: Kathryn Foster

3.94

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr. Addy Conrad, psychologist, encounters the ethical minefield common to private practice. Susan, … read more

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  • memoir
  • psychology
Cover of MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy by Rick Cormier

16. MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy

By: Rick Cormier

4.18

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

"Some people assume that all therapists are new-agey hand-holders who just listen and nod like bobb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
"Love is how you treat someone."

-Rick Cormier, MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy

"Many of our flaws are old emotional defenses which may fade away when we're loved in spite of them."

-Rick Cormier, MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy

"Three things make up who we are as individuals: what we think, what we feel, and what we do. If we manage to change any one of these three aspects of ourselves, the other two will follow."

-Rick Cormier, MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy

"There is an unspoken agreement in every successful relationship: "I'm not perfect and you're not perfect. I can ignore your imperfections if you can ignore mine. I choose to spend my life in your com…"

-Rick Cormier, MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy

Cover of Inside Your Therapist's Mind: How A Therapist Thinks, And Why It Works by Drew E. Permut

17. Inside Your Therapist's Mind: How A Therapist Thinks, And Why It Works

By: Drew E. Permut

4.15

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Psychotherapy is a treatment that most people know of, but few understand. This is because the inne… read more

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  • psychology
Cover of Everything is Perfect: A Memoir by Kate Nason

18. Everything is Perfect: A Memoir

By: Kate Nason

4.17

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Seven years into her second marriage, Kate Nason discovered her husband was cheating on her. Then, … read more

Similar categories in Kate Nason's Everything is Perfect: A Memoir book and Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff's Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Fullness: A Memoir by Azure Moyna

19. Fullness: A Memoir

By: Azure Moyna

3.96

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Having recently gotten married, landed her first corporate management job and purchased her first h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
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20. People of the ER

By: Philip Allen Green

4.29

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

Standing in the trauma room of an emergency department is like standing at ground zero of a nuclear… read more

Similar categories in Philip Allen Green's People of the ER book and Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff's Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family by Janet Smuga

21. Damaged: After the coma, after the headlines, the story of a family

By: Janet Smuga

4.12

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Damaged is a story of survivor's guilt coupled with resentment tempered by love. It reveals the cha… read more

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Cover of Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis by Meredith O'Brien

22. Uncomfortably Numb: a memoir about the life-altering diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

By: Meredith O'Brien

4.32

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a “mass” on her … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Residency: Blundering along with imposter syndrome (Playing Doctor, #2) by John       Lawrence

23. Residency: Blundering along with imposter syndrome (Playing Doctor, #2)

By: John Lawrence

4.29

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Playing Doctor: Part Two: Residency is a medical memoir full of laugh-out-loud tales, born from cha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Laugh Cry Rewind: A Memoir by Judy Haveson

24. Laugh Cry Rewind: A Memoir

By: Judy Haveson

4.31

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Growing up in 1970s and 80s suburban Houston, Judy Haveson is funny, sarcastic, and fiercely loyal,… read more

Similar categories in Judy Haveson's Laugh Cry Rewind: A Memoir book and Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff's Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

  • nonfiction
Cover of Raising, and Losing, My Remarkable Teenage Mother by Stacey Aaronson

25. Raising, and Losing, My Remarkable Teenage Mother

By: Stacey Aaronson

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

Gilmore Girls meets Terms of Endearment in this candid, humorous, and touching story of an uncommon… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of I Am Happy: A Memoir of Child Loss by Erin Benson

26. I Am Happy: A Memoir of Child Loss

By: Erin Benson

4.34

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

This is not a story about a boy who lived. Or parents who risked it all to save their child. Or mir… read more

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Cover of Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist by Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff

27. Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

By: Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff

3.88

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

When Pinny started work as a psychotherapist, little did she imagine the shocking stories her clien… read more

Similar categories in Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff's Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist book and Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff's Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"...if people ever knew who walks among us freely, they’d never leave their homes."

-Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

"I'd imagined my job would involve playing jump rope and weaving lanyards, but, instead, I'd landed inside a jail for kids."

-Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff, Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

Cover of Someone To Talk To: What Really Happens in Therapy and How it Can Work for You by Joyce Houser

28. Someone To Talk To: What Really Happens in Therapy and How it Can Work for You

By: Joyce Houser

4.04

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Therapy is a process, not a "one-and-done" event. Someone To Talk To reveals what happens in therap… read more

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Cover of What the Man in the Moon Told Me: Living With Bipolar II A Memoir by Frank Stanton

29. What the Man in the Moon Told Me: Living With Bipolar II A Memoir

By: Frank Stanton

4.40

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Frank Stanton was a man accustomed to dealing with dark depressions but his first experience with m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • mental health
Cover of Twelve Cases: A Psychiatrist’s True Stories of Mental Illness and Addiction [and Other Human Predispositions] by Ph Daniel Mierlak MD

30. Twelve Cases: A Psychiatrist’s True Stories of Mental Illness and Addiction [and Other Human Predispositions]

By: Ph Daniel Mierlak MD

3.89

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

Are you curious about the shadowy parts of the human psyche? Join Dr. Daniel Mierlak, a psychiatris… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
Cover of How to Hide in Plain Sight by Emma  Noyes

31. How to Hide in Plain Sight

By: Emma Noyes

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The unbreakable bonds of family and love are explored in this brilliant and tender story from the a… read more

Similar categories in Emma Noyes's How to Hide in Plain Sight book and Pinny Brakeley Bugaeff's Tell Me About It: Memoir of a Psychotherapist

  • mental health

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