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Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery (vuoden 2020 painos)

Tekijä: Catherine Gildiner (Tekijä)

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Psychology. Nonfiction. HTML: "Catherine Gildiner is nothing short of masterful�??as both a therapist and writer. In these pages, she has gorgeously captured both the privilege of being given access to the inner chambers of people's lives, and the meaning that comes from watching them grow into the selves they were meant to be." �??Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents five of what she calls her most heroic and memorable patients. Among them: a successful, first generation Chinese immigrant musician suffering sexual dysfunction; a young woman whose father abandoned her at age nine with her younger siblings in an isolated cottage in the depth of winter; and a glamorous workaholic whose narcissistic, negligent mother greeted her each morning of her childhood with "Good morning, Monster." Each patient presents a mystery, one that will only be unpacked over years. 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. As in such recent classics as The Glass Castle and Educated, each patient embodies self-reflection, stoicism, perseverance, and forgiveness as they work unflinchingly to face the truth. Gildiner's account of her journeys with them is moving, insightful, and sometimes very funny. Good Morning Monster offers an almost novelistic, behind-the-scenes look into the therapist's office, illustrating how the process can heal even the most unimaginable wounds. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press "Good Morning, Monster allows one the privilege of seeing the therapist-patient relationship as an essentially human interaction." �??JM Coetzee, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Litera… (lisätietoja)

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Info:	St. Martin's Press (2020), 368 pages
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Break in Fiction: Afternoon Coffee, pastries and Someone else's Therapy

I picked this one up whilst milling about the bookstore after breakfast this morning.
I saw the cover and thought it would be a quick and undemanding reading break from the list I had created for my 100books52weeks challenge, My April challenge is quite ambitious. So, here I am, on chapter 3 and I have to say, I was right. Easy quick read.

More to come ...

So, the cases presented are harrowing and sometimes the author lets her own beliefs slip into her narrative. But for the most part, I feel like she really does champion each patient and their journey through therapy. Peter and Danny's stories are just crushing. I am conflicted about Laura, she still seems emotionally damaged no matter how successful she went on to become. How can she look at Tracy's life trajectory and not belief in the child molestation accusation leveled at that deadbeat father who also clearly murdered her mother and stepmother. As the opening case, it left a bad taste in my mouth and I questioned the therapists definition of "hero" which she uses frequently to describe the "successful" patients journey through therapy.

All in all, it was a read and although it set out to inspire the reader I suppose it did to a certain extent. (

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RoadtripReader | Aug 24, 2023 |

I'm just going to come out and say it: I'm not buying what Catherine Gildiner is selling. In this book, the author congratulates herself over and over as she shares exaggerations of her 5 most memorable psychotherapy cases, showing how each individual is a hero in their own right.

Despite being published in 2020, this book is incredibly outdated on multiple levels but what stood out most to me was her fetishization of a Native American man, whom she told was sexually assaulted because he was handsome. Or maybe it was that another patient had dated a transgender individual because they were seeking a mother AND father figure and could find them both in that one person. Or maybe it was using an abusive father's name to make a cute pun, which was so absolutely distasteful. (

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thezenofbrutality | Jul 5, 2023 |

I was so incredibly impressed by this book.
A book of the stories of 5 real life heroes who withstood so much and came out on the other side of therapy so much stronger.
I don't want to spoil anything but sharing anything to specific about any of the cases. But they are written about in such an engaging way. We also get a bit of history on therapy techniques along the way.

I was given a copy for free in exchange for an honest review on NetGalley. (

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kayfeif | Aug 2, 2022 |

An interesting book that sheds the light on what the most damaged of us can do to those they are supposed to protect and love.

These are five horrible stories. I've lived long enough to understand that everyone that gets on this ride of life generally experiences some of the shit laid out in this book, though, thankfully, to a much lesser degree. I have personally dealt with caregivers and siblings and their personalities warped by alcoholism, drugs, sexual addiction, and psychopathy. I've experienced violence, mental abuse, and abandonment.

And, thankfully, I've also had the help of a good therapist along the way. So, for someone to be able to take on these people in all their broken tragedy and lead them through all the horrible things in their lives, staring at it wide-eyed and unblinkingly, and mapping a path out of that hell?

Yeah, that's powerful. So are these stories.

Interestingly, the one thing I found a touch off-putting was Gildiner's narrative voice, but I think she had to write in a more dispassionate, emotionally removed tone than I'm used to.

Regardless, this is an important insight into the unseen burdens we all carry around with us. When you encounter that person and casually label them an "asshole" (as, I shamefully admit, I do far too often), it's good to remember that most of these patients were likely considered assholes by those around them due strictly to their survival behaviours.

If, for nothing else, this book helps you see others in a different light, it's worth the read. (

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TobinElliott | Sep 3, 2021 |

An exceptional clear-eyed report on the psychoanalytic process from a skilled and compassionate doctor drawing from a lifetime of work. In her epilogue Gildiner owns up to choosing patients for whom the process worked and was miraculously transformative (to the extent once can refer changes wrought through years of hard work as "miraculous.") The cases she has chosen are to my mind truly miraculous. All five are quite different in terms of the ways in which the psychological damage manifested, but all are very much the same in that they started with mothers largely absent (whether through death, physical abandonment, or emotional abandonment) and fathers cruel or weak or hapless. This is a QAnon dream come true -- child abuse is everywhere, and no one seems to protect the children.

The approach that Dr. Gildiner takes is strict Freudian, which feels quaint at this point since we understand the biology of mental illness so much better 100 years later. Gildiner though makes a solid case for a Freudian approach in at least some cases. Clearly, like cancer or heart disease or many other diseases mental illness usually had both biological and behavioral/environmental causes, and if we just address the biology, we are not treating the whole patient. Gildiner's approach, while it does not account for biology, is intellectual, compassionate, and creative, and provides a path for her patients to do the hard work and reap the benefits of getting better. In these five lives treatment was utterly metamorphic. There are happy(ish) endings to all these stories, and Gildiner is right when she calls these people heroes. (

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Narshkite | Aug 16, 2021 |

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Psychology. Nonfiction. HTML:

"Catherine Gildiner is nothing short of masterful�??as both a therapist and writer. In these pages, she has gorgeously captured both the privilege of being given access to the inner chambers of people's lives, and the meaning that comes from watching them grow into the selves they were meant to be." �??Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents five of what she calls her most heroic and memorable patients. Among them: a successful, first generation Chinese immigrant musician suffering sexual dysfunction; a young woman whose father abandoned her at age nine with her younger siblings in an isolated cottage in the depth of winter; and a glamorous workaholic whose narcissistic, negligent mother greeted her each morning of her childhood with "Good morning, Monster."
Each patient presents a mystery, one that will only be unpacked over years. 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.
As in such recent classics as The Glass Castle and Educated, each patient embodies self-reflection, stoicism, perseverance, and forgiveness as they work unflinchingly to face the truth. Gildiner's account of her journeys with them is moving, insightful, and sometimes very funny. Good Morning Monster offers an almost novelistic, behind-the-scenes look into the therapist's office, illustrating how the process can heal even the most unimaginable wounds.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press
"Good Morning, Monster allows one the privilege of seeing the therapist-patient relationship as an essentially human interaction." �??JM Coetzee, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Litera