In Group, Tate details her seven-year journey through group therapy under the unorthodox direction of a Chicago psychotherapist she calls “Dr. That turning point opens her first book, the memoir Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life, which reached #4 on The New York Times Best Seller List in fall 2020 and was Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club pick for November 2020. It was late June 2001, and that week she’d received the news that she was ranked first in her Loyola law school class-a fact that sent her spiraling into darkness and desperation. “Often hilarious, and ultimately very touching” ( People), Group is “a wild ride” ( The Boston Globe), and with Christie as our guide, we are given a front row seat to the daring, exhilarating, painful, and hilarious journey that is group therapy-an under-explored process that breaks you down, and then reassembles you so that all the pieces finally fit.Through writing her best-selling memoir, Group, Christie Tate (JD ’03) finds herself-and her calling.Ĭhristie Tate drove around Chicago, wishing for death. Rosen and to depend on the sessions and the prescribed nightly phone calls with various group members, she begins to understand what it means to connect. Rosen’s outlandish directives, but as her defenses break down and she comes to trust Dr. So begins her entry into the strange, terrifying, and ultimately life-changing world of group therapy. Rosen issues a nine-word prescription that will change everything: “You don’t need a cure. Christie is skeptical, insisting that that she is defective, beyond cure. About everything-her eating habits, childhood, sexual history, etc. All she has to do is show up and be honest. Rosen, a therapist who calmly assures her that if she joins one of his psychotherapy groups, he can transform her life. Why then was she driving through Chicago fantasizing about her own death? Why was she envisioning putting an end to the isolation and sadness that still plagued her despite her achievements?Įnter Dr. The refreshingly original and “startlingly hopeful” (Lisa Taddeo) debut memoir of an over-achieving young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to group therapy and gets psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers-and finds human connection, and herself.Ĭhristie Tate had just been named the top student in her law school class and finally had her eating disorder under control. University of Toronto Schools Technology SuppliesĪ REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.University of Toronto Schools Stationery.Toronto Prep School Technology Supplies.Toronto Prep School Merch & Gym Uniforms.Ontario Institute - Studies in Education.Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education.

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