Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

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But lo and behold, there was ANOTHER book about a therapist being released around the same time as Group, it's just that the Whiskey in a Teacup lady didn't choose it for her book club and the publisher didn't rain copies down on Bookstagrammers so it didn't get half the hype as Group did. There can be delight in learning new things, but also sometimes struggle or uncertainty as we adapt to new realities. I found it refreshing that the author did not shy away from pointing out her own mistakes during treatment. A note before we begin: Although we won’t detail the most intense experiences these patients lived through, please be aware their stories include difficult topics such as uncomfortable emotions, physical, mental, and sexual abuse, and cultural genocide. The author frequently goes over the top in praising her patients as "heroes,” instead of simply treating them as regular people who have been through horrendous experiences and need support, healing, coping methods, etc.

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Kahneman continually refers to System 2 as “lazy”: We don’t want to think rigorously about something. First of all, Good Morning, Monster is heart-breaking, because the book tells the stories of real people and the horrors they had to endure over long periods of time. The book details five different patients treated by Catherine Gildiner, patients she considers "heroes" because they endured horrible things in their lives and were able to come out better on the other side. Cathy leaves home and comes out of early retirement to work with Madeline, a highly successful but emotionally broken New York City businesswoman whose mental health struggles are slowly destroying the company she worked to build. Catherine Gildiner practised psychotherapy for twenty-five years (before retiring to concentrate on creative writing, which led to her three well-received memoirs and one novel), and in her latest nonfiction effort, Good Morning, Monster, Gildiner describes the therapeutic histories of five patients whose journeys to recovery she describes as “heroic”.

Adapted from the book of the same name from NYT-bestselling author and therapist Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster follows the emotional recovery of Cathy's most heroic and memorable patients. She also learned important lessons herself in her work with him, especially related to how layered therapy ends up being sometimes. Mostly I just felt sad at the capacity humans have for hurting other humans, for the ways that hurt can easily get passed on generations down the line, and for all the times the people who are SUPPOSED to notice and follow up on suspected neglect or abuse just .

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By the time I was in private practice, I had a few years of internships under my belt with a variety of different type clients. 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. He begins with the distinction between System 1 and System 2 mental operations, the former referring to quick, automatic thought, the latter to more effortful, overt thinking. It was not framed as merely a psychologist learning on the job in practice out in the real world after the textbook cases in school, because she was describing similar mistakes all the way up to her last client.Instead of scrolling through your social media news feed, this is a much better way to spend your spare time in my opinion. One of the patients has since passed away, so I wonder how he was able to consent to sharing his story? The book was published in September 2019 and has been praised by the likes of Glennon Doyle and Lori Gottlieb. My undergraduate degree is in psychology, so I’m always interested in books about psychotherapy and the resilience of human mind in the face of trauma and abuse.

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Insightful psychological lessons of special interest to readers on therapeutic journeys of their own.These five people may at first have seemed vastly different, yet when the economic and cultural layers were peeled away, their unconscious needs were strikingly similar. And there are definitely many descriptions that might trigger you, if you have a history of abuse, neglect, assault or trauma. Another patient suffers not from multiple personality, as the common trope has it, but instead from dissociative identity, which “means that a fragmentation of the main personality has occurred.

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Cathy gets perspective on Madeline’s relationship with her mother, and just what kind of workplace environment Madeline is leading. I started this book because I really enjoyed Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, and thought this would be similar. Dr Catherine Gildiner chronicles five clients, most who suffered severe abuse, over the course of several years as their therapist. Peter’s dedication to reconnecting with himself, to facing the reality of his childhood and his mother’s actions, was extremely courageous. labai mažos detalės iš ilgų, sudėtingų pasakojimų, kuriuos skaitydami net nenorėsite patikėti, kad tai tiesa.

If you can stomach the parts of this book that will break you heart, I highly encourage reading this. But it's well worth it as Catherine Gildiner's compassion for her patients coupled with a writing style that manages to be accessible to those familiar and unfamiliar with therapy creates a journey of extreme experiences of suffering towards hope is both heart-rending and uplifting.