The behavior of Alana’s father has prevented Alana from developing in the ways that children and adolescents usually do within safe and healthy environments and Gildiner must help Alana to proceed through these stages of development retrospectively. Fortified with the knowledge I’d acquired, taking comfort in the rules I’d learned, I looked forward to having patients I could “cure. I respected how she recounts her own failings as a psychologist, how she missed certain signs in some of her patients that led to a regression in their therapy and forced her to take into account her mistakes and how she could do herself and her patient better.

While I praise her on going to extra mile to educate herself her response to Dannys abuse felt disrespectful. Makes you appreciate the 'could have beens' that you escaped and appreciate the solid grounding of your life .

These are heart-wrenching stories of survival; the depiction of lives rising up to be lived despite the insurmountable odds erected against them. Man labai patiko, kad Catherine nevaidino Dievo ir drąsiai skaitytojui prisipažino nežinojusi kaip elgtis su vienokia ar kitokia paciento trauma.

Alana’s father, whom Alana refers to as Art, is an intelligent but “psychopathic sadist” who continues to diminish Alana as an adult.It makes me wonder if the hero angle was an afterthought-a way to justify the use of all those personal details. however, i will admit that gildiner's storytelling and narrative style were so compulsively readable and came at just the right time - as i'm starting my own education as a psychologist/therapist. From a woman with recurring herpes outbreaks because of stress, to a Native American man who cannot show emotion. It is through these exercises and her excavation of Laura’s family history that Gildiner learns of Laura’s traumatic childhood. To survive his childhood, he used the psychological defense of depersonalization, which numbed him from emotional pain but also made it impossible to healthily attach to others.

Gildiner, did the heavy lifting and fought the battle to get to the point where they for the most part conquered their demons and went on to much better lives. I was actually surprised to find that the patients she profiled weren’t psychopaths given the “monster” in the primary title. Gildiner emphasizes the extreme nature of the abuse Alana endured so that Alana is able to reframe her experiences and sense of self. The psychologist/ author Gildiner, chose 5 of her most horribly traumatized patients, and wrote about each of these " heroes". The book is divided into five parts, one for each patient, and Gildiner recounts the often several years she spent with each of her patients.sau 5 stele, dar nu are rost sa ma zgarcesc, nu cred ca voi mai citi cu graba ceva de nivelul acesta, astfel de volume nu ies pe banda rulanta.

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.Alana is initially referred to Gildiner through another therapist who is working with Alana’s partner and has concerns about Alana. One of the patients has since passed away, so I wonder how he was able to consent to sharing his story? Gildiner learns that Danny was raised in a healthy, loving environment by kind and capable parents in a very remote part of northern Canada.