These stories are about recovery from childhood trauma with the requisite emotional recovery and growth thus they are both difficult to read because of the subject matter, yet heartwarming, heartbreaking, and inspirational. Gildiner for a single issue, but as they dealt with that one, others appeared as Gildiner unpeeled the “onion” of their souls. They choose to deal with these internal issues, to heal themselves, to grow emotionally, to become “whole” rather than persist in these behaviors. These people have been so psychologically traumatized that they developed maladaptive behaviors such as trauma-based triggers, denial, and shame to compensate, yet their spirits remain indomitable. She expertly grapples such diverse and difficult topics as child abuse, neglect, abandonment, gender-based violence, sexual abuse and trauma. In this compilation, the reader meets five of Gildiner’s most difficult cases. She gradually becomes able to modify her approach to handle the specifics of a client’s case and writes about their growth and her own with grace, humor, and humility. Gildiner charts her own course, beginning with her very first patient, as she learns the things she didn’t learn in her formalized schooling. Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery is a look at the therapeutic psychological practice of Catherine Gildiner, a fascinating memoir of how she dealt with five clients, all so severely emotionally damaged that they had to be superheroes to have survived their early lives.
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