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Catherine Gildiner

Nascido: March 31, 1948 – Lewiston, New York, United States

Catherine Gildiner is a Canadian clinical psychologist and writer whose books center on childhood, family life, trauma, and healing. She is best known for the memoirs Too Close to the Falls, After the Falls, and Coming Ashore, and for Good Morning, Monster, a bestselling work that introduced her therapeutic practice to a wide readership.

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Catherine Gildiner is a New York-born author and former clinical psychologist whose career has joined memoir, literary storytelling, and therapeutic observation. Born in Lewiston, she drew early imaginative material from the Niagara frontier and later described the public library as one of the decisive institutions of her childhood; it was there, through unrestricted reading and the example of Jo March, that writing first became imaginable as a vocation. Her education moved through literature before turning toward psychology, and after coming to Canada she completed graduate study in Toronto, eventually building a long private clinical practice that lasted about twenty-five years. ((https://macmillanlibrary.com/2022/09/23/a-letter-to-librarians-from-catherine-gildiner/))

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Anger is not a feeling; it's a defense. When you can't acknowledge your true feelings because they're too excruciating, you defend against them with anger
-Good Morning, Monster
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One thing Cathy and Roy knew was that when you deliver narcotics, people are happy to see you
-Too Close to the Falls
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Later in my life when I was at a low that book pulled me through
-Coming Ashore
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Actually I never planned to write a memoir until a friend told me I had a weird childhood and should write about it
-BookBrowse author interview
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A memoir is different from a history or biography
-BookBrowse author interview
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Writing is a solitary activity
-The Glory of the Book Tour
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You want the truth? Read aloud to strangers
-The Glory of the Book Tour
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After delving into the unconscious of others for so long I realized that we are all pretty much the same
-Why I Wrote a Memoir

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Vozes da Comunidade

"Catherine Gildiner is nothing short of masterful-as both a therapist and writer"

Lori Gottlieb

"Although Catherine Gildiner didn't grow up dirt-poor in Ireland, her tale is no less memorably and skillfully told"

The Globe and Mail

"Several times while reading Catherine McClure Gildiner's memoir about coming of age in the 1960s, I laughed out loud"

Montreal Gazette

"Like Oliver Sacks, Catherine Gildiner loves her patients"

Susan Swan

"Catherine Gildiner is an artful storyteller"

The Canadian Jewish News

"Toronto psychologist Catherine Gildiner's Too Close to the Falls is both funny and true, a sometimes bizarre but believable story"

The Toronto Star

"Good Morning, Monster by Catherine Gildiner is a psychologist's retelling of five of her most memorable and harrowing cases"

Entertainment Weekly

"Catherine Gildiner knows how to make an entrance"

Harvard Review

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