Good Morning, Monster: Five Heroic Journeys to Recovery

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Konrad Lorenz, a zoologist, pointed out—and this is part of what won him a Nobel Prize—that attachment can be understood within an evolutionary context in that the mother provides safety for the infant. In therapy, Alana reveals that she has survived extreme abuse from her father in all forms throughout her life, including rape.

I learned so much about the power of the human subconscious and the ability of psychotherapy to break through. The patients are all so different in age, circumstance, culture, everything but there ade common threads that can’t be denied (including Catherine herself having some profound revelations of her own). When I questioned her about this, she acted as though it was normal and that there wasn’t much she could do about it. Though the author admits in the narration that they are mistakes, in describing the encounter with the patient and how these conversations actually occurred, she seems heedless and sometimes even downright dismissive of their reaction (which included willfully ignoring triggers).Madeline is impacted by anxiety and obsessive thoughts, and her business is suffering because she has developed an acute and irrational fear of flying. A poverty stricken, parentified child and eldest daughter of a psychopathic alcoholic father, she lost her mother to an alleged suicide at age eight. His personal story cannot be told without understanding that he was a tragic product of the times: being (legally at the time) taken away from his loving, hard-working parents and placed in a residential school with his sister where he suffered ongoing severe sexual abuse and was forced to cast off his native ways and become “white.

As in such recent classics as The Glass Castle and Educated, each patient embodies self-reflection, stoicism, perseverance, and forgiveness as they work unflinchingly to face the truth.After abuse and trauma you might only feel isolated and numb, and finding people who can actually understand what you are going through is not necessarily easy then.