Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

DNF. Memoirs are hard to rate, since they are simply a person's experiences, and how can you rate that? However, I have issues with the fact that this was written as a testament to the power of group therapy. Tate's life does seem to gradually trend upwards (I quit at 60% but read the "10 years later"), but at 60% she still hadn't reflected on WHY or HOW group therapy was helping her. Her reverence for her therapist was disturbing to me--she tended to base her actions on what she thought her therapist would say or do. And also, I don't think her recounting all the debasing and humiliating things that she did or had happen to her is necessarily brave or enlightening; especially since she didn't seem to give the same emphasis to her improvements or accomplishments. I'm glad she found something she thought helped her, but neither group therapy nor this book was for me.

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