Good Morning, Monster: Five Heroic Journeys to Recovery

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e., not asking - and in one case, not even informing, because the patient had died) and hiding their identities. Madeline would try to sneak potato chips into her room between restaurant meals; every morning when she'd round the back servant stairs to the kitchen, hoping for some breakfast before school, her mother would greet her by saying, “Good morning, monster. Gildiner's training was in Freudian psychology, and her patients' backgrounds are full of child abuse/neglect, sexual abuse, and combinations thereof.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing me a complimentary copy of GOOD MORNING MONSTER by Catherine Gildiner in exchange for my honest review. MADELINE: A glamorous workaholic whose mother had greeted her each morning with “Good morning, Monster. Again, I can see how this book might be helpful for therapists, but I definitely don’t recommend it for the rest of us.

They wanted others to benefit from their experiences, and in that and many other regards, they were, in fact, heroes. She goes on, with a wing and a prayer, to use her training, grit, curiosity, compassion, self-reflection, and humility to seek help when she needs it, to take patients who are barely functional from complex PTSD to people whose post-traumatic growth is both astonishing and heart-warming.

Fortified with the knowledge I’d acquired, taking comfort in the rules I’d learned, I looked forward to having patients I could cure. 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.Intimacy is when you’re familiar with your emotions, then share your feelings, your fears, your shame, your hopes and joys with another person. Maybe I’m pessimistic but the stories didn’t inspire me about the power of the human spirit but instead horrified me that anyone could be capable of the cruelty depicted.

I highly recommend Good Morning, Monster to anyone who loved Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, or who like me was looking for something similar but someone else. With delicacy and exploration, Gildiner shares her experiences as well as her misguided notions of each patient. There’s no doubt that Good Morning, Monster was an interesting read: The author, a therapist, presents here five case studies of particularly troubled patients and how she helped them, and her writing is engaging.Labai smagu ir tai, kad po kiekvieno pasakojimo ji nepalikdavo skaitytojo nežinioje kaip vienam ar kitam herojui sekėsi toliau.

Gildiner describes Alana’s ego as “fragile at best” while adding that she “attained the highest IQ score I’d ever given. I loved that part, and left those chapters feeling inspired to take a closer look at my own mental health. The book was interesting at first, but rapidly degenerated into what ultimately came across as a horrifying breach of confidence and trust, and capitalizing on the horrors of others' lives for the shock and awe value of it - offering details about each patient's abuse to the point of salaciousness, not just offering context for their treatment and progress.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. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The first patient profiled, Laura Wilkes, was, Gildiner notes immediately, her first professional patient as a clinician. Although this book centers on the healing of Gildiner’s patients, it is also about her own gifts and growth as a therapist. It will take courage to face those realities, and creativity and resourcefulness from their therapist.