A Toronto-based clinical psychologist weighs the travails of mental illness on both sufferer and healer. In addition to patient stories, Gildiner also recounts instances of her own Type A behavior, which leads to the tendency “to mow others down...
Publishers Weekly Raves about Good Morning, Monster Clinical psychologist Gildiner (Too Close to the Falls) shares heart-wrenching stories of child abuse in this pull-no-punches narrative about five of her patients. Of them, nine-year-old Laura...
Gildiner has not written dry clinical case studies, but instead deeply moving accounts of people trying to come to terms with childhood trauma. These journeys of discovery are both thought provoking and surprising. As Gildiner writes, ‘In...
WHAT THE PRESS HAS TO SAY COAST TO COAST THE GLOBE AND MAIL “Get the balance right and though and strike literary gold. It’s what made a best-seller of Frank McCourt’s ANGELA’S ASHES and a classic of W.O. Mitchell’s...
– LEANNE MILECH Special to The Globe and Mail, Published Friday, Dec. 19 2014 Cathy McClure, Catherine Gildiner’s younger self and the heroine of her third and final memoir, Coming Ashore, is funny, energetic, incisive and courageous...
“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” – Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory Review by Bob Douglas, Critics At Large.ca This apt epigraph opens Catherine Gildiner’s first volume, Too...
Catherine Gildiner’s new book is a solid “10” January 14, 2015 by Lynda Davis Coming Ashore is the third book in Catherine Gildiner’s autobiographical trilogy. Coming Ashore is the third installment in Catherine Gildiner’s autobiographical series...
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The Waterloo Region Record, Nov. 2014 by Chuck Erion (also published on Goodreads) My relationship with Catherine Gildiner began in November, 1999. Her childhood memoir, “Too Close to the Falls,” had just arrived at our bookstore and I grabbed it...
—katherine o’day November 3, 2010 When Cathy Gildiner walked into the offices of Artvoice on a sunny day last summer, I immediately thought she was the most elegant person I’d ever seen come through that door (and Artvoice has been host to...
Too Close to the Falls has received the following awards/success… Was on the extended New York Times best seller list Holds Canadian record for The Globe and Mail best seller’s list — 104 weeks On the Boston Globe‘s best...
A smart, nervy teen comes of age; Catherine Gildiner looks back on her not-so-typical life Montreal Gazette Sat Oct 10 2009 Page: H6 Section: Weekend: Books Byline: SUSAN SCHWARTZ Source: The Gazette She did such outrageous things as a teenager...
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