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

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eamcmahon3's review against another edition

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3.0

I got the ick from a book somehow?

Not bad writing, not bad stories, just not my favorite

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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4.0

Gildiner, a retired psychologist, pulls five cases from her files and tells their stories. I was riveted for awhile, thinking this was even better than Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, which I read a couple of years ago. But by the fourth case, you realize there’s a pattern, and it continues into the fifth— all five are people who endured horrific, even criminal, abuse and neglect as children, and then do the slow, careful work of psychotherapy to finally heal. They’re all interesting cases, but after awhile, I found myself putting it down and forgetting to pick it back up again. It would have been more interesting to me if she had mixed it up a little with people with more average case histories, dealing with garden-variety divorce, aimlessness, estrangement, etc. It was still an absorbing read.