ONE OF Newsweek 's 30 THOUGHTFUL BOOKS TO GIFT "Both wrenching and hopeful." -- Newsweek "For fans of Lori Gottlieb. a therapist recounts her most fascinating patients, with a focus on how heroic they are for overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles." -- Business Insider "Affecting. Insightful psychological lessons of special interest to readers on therapeutic journeys of their own." -- Kirkus "Heart-wrenching stories. [that] inspire awe for the ways people who suffered horrific abuse were able to find a measure of recovery." -- Publisher's Weekly "A fascinating memoir.

heartwarming, heartbreaking, and inspirational." -- Midwest Book Review "Although this book centers on the healing of Gildiner's patients, it is also about her own gifts and growth as a therapist. Hats off to Gildiner for doing a heroic therapeutic job and for writing about it so eloquently." -- New York Journal "Gildiner's subject is heroism--writ large and with poignant specificity in unforgettable patients' lives . Good Morning, Monster will bolster your faith in human endurance, and make you root more fiercely for us all." --Paula McLain, author of Love and Ruin and The Paris Wife "These stories show how the process of therapy can heal even the deepest wound and most traumatic of experiences." --Lee Woodruff " Allows one the privilege of seeing the therapist-patient relationship as an essentially human interaction." --JM Coetzee, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature "Enthusiastic and insightful" -- Toronto Star "As anyone who has sat through a Zoom therapy session knows, there's really no substitute for the real thing.

But, the book world is giving it a shot. Good Morning, Monster by Catherine Gildiner is a psychologist's retelling of her most memorable (and harrowing) cases." -- Entertainment Weekly "Brilliant piece of work, both heart-rending and chilling. I was moved to tears. a great book for any time. [I] read right through from beginning to end." --Valery Hemingway, author of Running With the Bulls "Like Oliver Sacks, Catherine Gildiner loves her patients. Gildiner is a master of shoot-from-the-hip nonfiction--funny, direct and honest about what she sees in others and what she sees in herself.

Highly readable!" --Susan Swan, author of The Wives of Bath "Gildiner is astute, active, pragmatic, and hopeful. She is also very funny. Her wit and her wisdom are gifts shared with these [patients]--and now with all of us readers." --David S. Goldbloom, co-author of How Can I Help?: A week in My Life as a Psychiatrist "These stories are almost mythic in their power. I couldn't put this book down." --Antanas Sileika, author of Provisionally Yours "Compelling, heart-in-throat stories prove no one is 'damaged goods.' I'm in awe of the patients and of Gildiner's exceptional creativity as she guides each one toward emotional freedom.

" --Rona Maynard, author of My Mother's Daughter.