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

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Last year I listened to and LOVED Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed and although this one definitely has a more serious tone I still found the 5 cases presented fascinating.

Good Morning, Monster’ Being Catherine Gildiner’s Memoir ‘Good Morning, Monster’ Being

Had it not been for a friends recommendation I never would have thought to try another book on psychology. In this Blink, we’ll cover three of these five patients’ stories. These men and women all experienced enormous hardship in their childhoods, which followed them into their adult lives. You’ll learn about a music prodigy left alone for most of his childhood, a Cree man who was abducted from his family by the Canadian government as a child and put in a residential school, and a highly successful antique dealer whose company began to crumble when her anxiety spiked. Regardless of how it all came to be, it is blatantly unethical. Calling someone a hero means nothing if you treat them like a pawn.Since reading Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed last year, I've been so eager to find something similar. I fell prey to the marketing for Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life, and, for some twisted reason, I actually finished that awful book despite it being one of the most cringey reading experiences I've ever had the displeasure of going through. Not only did it not quench my thirst for another Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, it nearly put me off of the idea of books centering around therapists for good.

Good Morning, Monster: Five Heroic Journeys to Recovery Good Morning, Monster: Five Heroic Journeys to Recovery

She has also written a novel, SEDUCTION, a thriller about Darwin and Freud. It was chosen by DER SPIEGAL as one of the ten best mysteries. Fascinating. This book contain five case studies on patients this psychologist considered psychological heroes. Their stories are independently horrific. Never having been to therapy, the process of getting to the core of a patient’s problem was interesting. It’s a slow, tedious process where one misstep can lead to disaster. I loved Gildiner’s three memoirs and was excited to see she had another book coming out. Because I worked as a counselor for several years, reading a Gildiner memoir about her years as a therapist seemed right up my alley. Unfortunately, not only was I disappointed, I actually found a large swath of the book distasteful. Gildiner’s subject is heroism — writ large and with poignant specificity in five unforgettable patients’ lives . Good Morning, Monster will bolster your faith in human endurance, and make you root more fiercely for us all.“ — Paula McLain, author of Love and Ruin and The Paris Wife Have you or a loved one ever participated in therapy? If you have, you know it can be extremely challenging! Confronting your unsavory characteristics, wading through a mess of pain, suffering, and trauma from childhood, or even working through problems with loved ones with the support of a neutral third party – these are not easy tasks.This feels like the authors memoir as much as it’s a professional look at the process between therapist If you are looking for a book that tells you in detail what a therapist thinks about her clients and how she tries to help solve their problems, and you also want to read the tragic but true stories of people who were abandoned, neglected, suffered different forms of abuse, this could be the book for you.

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories

I had a few Aha-moments, which has influenced how I see some aspects of my own life now. We tend to forget that we create defense mechanisms in childhood to cope with certain things, but then retain these long after they become unnecessary. PDF / EPUB File Name: Good_Morning_Monster_-_Catherine_Gildiner.pdf, Good_Morning_Monster_-_Catherine_Gildiner.epubCathy continues her frequent trips to New York to work with Madeline. Cathy gets perspective on Madeline’s relationship with her mother, and just what kind of workplace environment Madeline is leading. THE DAY I OPENED my private practice as a psychologist, I sat smugly in my office. Fortified with the knowledge I’d acquired, taking comfort in the rules I’d learned, I looked forward to having patients I could “cure.” Rodney Barnes Sets Scary Podcast Series ‘Run, Fool!’ With Ballen Studios, Eyes TV & Film Adaptations Just when Madeline starts to make progress in her sessions, her mother comes to town. And in the midst of digging up the deep history behind Madeline’s poor mental health, Cathy faces personal struggles of her own.

Good Morning, Monster - Penguin Random House Canada Good Morning, Monster - Penguin Random House Canada

Highly recommend - very well and thoughtfully written. A couple of these survivors will stay with me for a long time. The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power.

Almost all abusive parenting is based on generations of the same; those who are abusive were likely themselves abused. That's why there are no enemies in these cases, but rather layers of dysfunction to unravel. I recently wrapped up my 3-star review of the uber-popular Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by saying maybe I should talk to someone…else. Well, I found her, and she’s a monster. The book’s subtitle - A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery - is the perfect content summary. I was actually surprised to find that the patients she profiled weren’t psychopaths given the “monster” in the primary title. Rather, they were just people trying to be functioning adults after horrible (HORRIBLE) childhoods. Case in point, a woman whose hateful mother greeted her each day with, “good morning, monster.” If you're going to choose to read this book, realize that it has many things discussed in detail that could be triggering and traumatic. One of the cases in particular is pretty detailed with the sexual abuse of a child and it was heartbreaking and gut-wrenching for me and I'm not personally affected by it.