Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery by Catherine Gildiner

57 reviews

firedew's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, and Cancer

svershon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

silodear's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

1.5

This book was weird and took me forever to read. I’m not sure how to feel about it. I have many questions about how the subjects profiled in this book provided their consent (did they??) And I have some major qualms with the way the author talks about queer and trans people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Abandonment

morgane3471's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

ecjacobs's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

1.0

Wow, I truly have not hated a book more than this one in SO long. The *only* reason this book isn’t getting 0 stars is that the patients and their stories were compelling and meaningful. Everything outside of direct patient-centered storytelling, I despised. This author expressed sooooo many problematic thoughts and behaviors - AS A THERAPIST!!! - that I wondered what she did that she didn’t feel comfortable putting into a public facing book. Her views on most every single situation were questionable at best, unethical at medium, actively HARMFUL at worst. I truly hated this and wish I had never read it because now I have to think about how such an unfit person treated all of these people with severe trauma and so many others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Rape

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

whatchusellin's review against another edition

dark hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

This book was really really good. The topics were incredibly heavy and all five of the clients went through deep trauma and abuse which could be triggering. I really enjoyed the vastly different cases that all come back to the human condition of wanting and needing connections with others. And how your past will haunt you until you face it. Lastly, the authors narration was really interesting to hear the therapists perspective, especially when she shared points that did not make to her clients. I definitely recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

confused_cat's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

This is a story of human resilience and how complex the human brain is.
I read this book in a couple of days (which is very quick for me), skipping some parts that are just too much to read (i.e. Alana's story)
I feel a bit conflicted about this book. Yes, their stories are important. I do wish the people in the story the best of life. But I don't think I will recommend this book to anyone I know. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Torture, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

Moderate: Incest and Sexual violence

jenny_higgins's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

An incredible portrait of 5 individuals from the perspective of a talented writer and therapist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

mxfrog's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

kjperry97's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use