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Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
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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.
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"With gentle humor and welcome candor about her own therapeutic shortcomings, she draws us into patients' lives, then helps us let them go, both of which she had to do as their therapist ..."
"These painful accounts will break anyone's heart, and also inspire awe for the ways people who suffered horrific abuse were able to find a measure of recovery."
"Overcoming fear is no easy thing, writes the author, and her five patients as well as her own therapy lead her to the pointed conclusion that 'all self-examination is brave.' Insightful psychological lessons of special interest to readers on therapeutic journeys of their own."
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