Catherine Gildiner
Catherine Gildiner has written the best-selling childhood memoir titled Too Close to the Falls. It was on the Toronto Globe and Mail’s best sellers’ list for an amazing 157 weeks and the New York Times list as well. A decade later, she published a sequel, a teenage memoir of life in the 60’s called After the Falls. Then she wrote her third and final memoir called Coming Ashore, which covers her life as a student at Oxford in England, teaching in the burning ghetto in Cleveland, and finally her graduate school years in Toronto. She has also written Seduction, a novel about Darwin and Freud, which has been an international bestseller and was listed by Der Spiegel in Germany as one of the year’s ten best mysteries. Her latest book titled Good Morning, Monster: Five Heroic Journey’s to Recovery (Penguin Fall 2019) is about patients she has had in her psychology practice who, despite their desolate childhoods, have overcome their traumas and managed to thrive. The book looks at their resilience and what traits they used to persevere. The book was on the Canadian best sellers’ list and was chosen in the U.S as one of the three top Amazon Choices for the fall. It was positively reviewed in Psychology Today and Entertainment Weekly. it has already been translated into eleven languages. It was featured on Good Morning America and on the top ten books taken out of U.S Libraries for the year 2021. She did a Ph.D. on Darwin’s influence on Freud. While she was a psychologist for 25 years
