Good Morning, Monster: Five Heroic Journeys to Recovery

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In every case, the patient who was abused as a child could have been saved a world of hurt had other adults stepped in and said, "no, something isn't right here. It protects you from the stresses of the outside world, providing a metaphorical home to shelter in—a safe place. The book seems to revel in the retelling, in graphic detail, of extreme sexual, physical, emotional, and verbal abuse.

It will take courage to face those realities, and creativity and resourcefulness from their therapist. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres, or publishing in a safe, supportive environment.There's a sameness to each of the five sections – presentation, therapy, wellness, followed by a revisitation by Gildiner as she wrote this book – and although each of the five patients came from very different backgrounds, and although each of them suffered very different types of childhood abuse (from neglect to sexual abuse to a residential school survivor), there's a sameness to their therapeutic journeys as well. From a woman with recurring herpes outbreaks because of stress, to a Native American man who cannot show emotion. As you can imagine, this book is emotional, powerful, insightful, inspiring, and hopeful even in the face of immense trauma and loss. Again, I can see how this book might be helpful for therapists, but I definitely don’t recommend it for the rest of us.

My guess is that they agreed based on the idea that there would be more focus on the hero, less on the trauma and victimization. i didn't enjoy how this book handled the case about peter, the chinese-canadian client (stereotypes about chinese people leak out through her verbiage). In other words, her readers’ perception of her clients as heroes is completely dependent upon her exhaustive descriptions of the abuses they suffered. Neslėpė ieškojusi pagalbos pas kitus specialistus ir net prisipažino klydusi, parinkusi netinkamą terapijos metodą. 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.If the child doesn’t experience attachment, that child can’t move forward to step two—trusting and emotionally attaching to others and, eventually, sexually attaching to others. The author, a psychologist, shares the backstories and therapeutical journey of five of her patients who had to work extremely hard over a long period of time to deal with and overcome what happened to them in their childhood. But sooner or later you might be able to see that there is a way of healing for you, and this is where I see a book like Good Morning, Monster can be extremely valuable. e., not asking - and in one case, not even informing, because the patient had died) and hiding their identities. Effective therapy is about lowering your defences so that you can deal with the issues that arise in your life.