CATHERINE GILDINER was a clinical psychologist in private practice for twenty-five years. Her best-selling memoir Too Close to The Falls was published to international acclaim. She lives in Toronto.
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"Both wrenching and hopeful." --Newsweek "For fans of Lori
Gottlieb... a therapist recounts five of her most fascinating
patients, with a focus on how heroic they are for overcoming
seemingly insurmountable obstacles." --Business Insider
"Affecting... Insightful psychological lessons of special interest
to readers on therapeutic journeys of their own." --Kirkus
"Heart-wrenching stories... [that] inspire awe for the ways people
who suffered horrific abuse were able to find a measure of
recovery." --Publisher's Weekly "A fascinating
memoir...heartwarming, heartbreaking, and inspirational." --Midwest
Book Review "Although this book centers on the healing of
Gildiner's patients, it is also about her own gifts and growth as a
therapist... Hats off to Gildiner for doing a heroic therapeutic
job and for writing about it so eloquently." --New York Journal
"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 "These stories show how the process of
therapy can heal even the deepest wound and most traumatic of
experiences." --Lee Woodruff "Allows one the privilege of seeing
the therapist-patient relationship as an essentially human
interaction." --JM Coetzee, Winner of the Nobel Prize for
Literature "Enthusiastic and insightful" --Toronto Star "As anyone
who has sat through a Zoom therapy session knows, there's really no
substitute for the real thing. But, the book world is giving it a
shot... Good Morning, Monster by Catherine Gildiner is a
psychologist's retelling of five of her most memorable (and
harrowing) cases." --Entertainment Weekly "Brilliant piece of work,
both heart-rending and chilling. I was moved to tears... a great
book for any time. I had promised myself that I would read one
episode for each of five days. Instead I read right through from
beginning to end." --Valery Hemingway, author of Running With the
Bulls "Like Oliver Sacks, Catherine Gildiner loves her patients...
Gildiner is a master of shoot-from-the-hip nonfiction--funny,
direct and honest about what she sees in others and what she sees
in herself. Highly readable!" --Susan Swan, author of The Wives of
Bath "Gildiner is astute, active, pragmatic, and hopeful. She is
also very funny. Her wit and her wisdom are gifts shared with these
five people--and now with all of us readers." --David S. Goldbloom,
co-author of How Can I Help?: A week in My Life as a Psychiatrist
"These stories are almost mythic in their power... I couldn't put
this book down." --Antanas Sileika, author of Provisionally Yours
"Compelling, heart-in-throat stories prove no one is 'damaged
goods.' I'm in awe of the five patients and of Gildiner's
exceptional creativity as she guides each one toward emotional
freedom." --Rona Maynard, author of My Mother's Daughter
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