The author of several scholarly texts, Kahneman (Emeritus Psychology and Public Affairs/Princeton Univ. While yes, the book was good and thought provoking, it did not come without very heavy, sad, and sick feelings while reading. A woman who had been abandoned in the woods at eight years old to take care of her younger siblings replied: If she had her life to live over, she said, she probably wouldn't have wanted it to be be any different.

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Dear Media, which is behind audio series including The Dissenters,co-hosted by Debra Messing, and Lipstick on the Rim with Molly Sims, has acquired the rights to the book. She often had patients seek her assistance for one reason, only to discover later that the root of the problem was much different.

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Even if you haven’t, imagine the surprise you might feel at encountering more layers than you’d expected! The book seems to revel in the retelling, in graphic detail, of extreme sexual, physical, emotional, and verbal abuse. In other words, her readers’ perception of her clients as heroes is completely dependent upon her exhaustive descriptions of the abuses they suffered. I wanted to enjoy the section that focused on the author’s understanding that one patient, a Cree man who had his ethnic identity forcibly erased, needing to seek an indigenous community and healing methods, but instead I was too upset that she apparently continued to treat a patient whom she did not have the skill set to treat.But it's well worth it as Catherine Gildiner's compassion for her patients coupled with a writing style that manages to be accessible to those familiar and unfamiliar with therapy creates a journey of extreme experiences of suffering towards hope is both heart-rending and uplifting.

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Each one comes into therapy armed with complicated coping mechanisms and defensive strategies that prevent them from getting to the core of their issues.In one case, she took a patient, to use her apt metaphor, above the depths of the unconscious so quickly that the result was akin to “psychological bends. Madeline was Gildiner’s last patient, and their work together occurred after Gildiner had officially retired from psychotherapy. Mostly she is able to place things in context of the time, but sometimes she says things without acknowledging they were hurtful or (in my opinion) a mistake. The root of Peter’s impotence emerged during their very first session – Gildiner learned Peter had been locked in an attic for most of his childhood. I was interested in each patient profiled, I couldn't have stopped reading their stories even if I'd wanted to.