![]() ![]() ![]() It will take courage to face those realities, and creativity and resourcefulness from their therapist.Įach patient embodies self-reflection, stoicism, perseverance, and forgiveness as they work unflinchingly to face the truth. They seek Gildiner's help to overcome an immediate challenge in their lives, but discover that the source of their suffering has been long buried. The five cases include a successful but lonely musician suffering sexual dysfunction a young woman whose father abandoned her and her siblings in a rural cottage an Indigenous man who'd endured great trauma at a residential school a young woman whose abuse at the hands of her father led to a severe personality disorder and a glamorous workaholic whose negligent mother had greeted her each morning with Good morning, Monster.Įach patient presents a mystery, one that will only be unpacked over years. With a novelist's storytelling gift, Gildiner recounts the details of their struggles, their paths to recovery, and her own tale of growth as a therapist. ![]() In Good Morning, Monster, she focuses on five patients who overcame enormous trauma-people she considers heroes. A therapist creates moving portraits of five of her most memorable patients, men and women she considers psychological heroes.Ĭatherine Gildiner is a bestselling memoirist, a novelist, and a psychologist in private practice for twenty-five years. ![]()
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