How To Heal Trauma, Develop Emotional Competence & Understand Personality Disorders Ft. Best Selling Author & Psychologist Catherine Gildiner

Oct 5, 2023

Guest Catherine Gildiner, psychologist and author, discusses therapy, trauma, and emotional competence. Topics include understanding different perspectives in therapy, finding a trustworthy therapist, taking accountability, love and terror emotions, gorilla sexual instincts, adapting a book for audio, and analyzing challenging book chapters.

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Introduction

00:00 • 5min

Understanding Different Perspectives in Therapy

04:38 • 21min

Finding a Trustworthy Therapist and Product Sponsorships

26:05 • 9min

Taking Accountability and Embracing Change

35:18 • 22min

Love, Terror, and the Importance of Nutrition for Pets

57:09 • 6min

Sexual Instinct and Bonding: Lessons from Gorillas

01:03:37 • 3min

The Challenges of Adapting a Book for Audio

01:06:31 • 11min

Exploring Darwin's Research, Freud's Theory, and Book Recommendations

01:17:37 • 2min

Analyzing a Challenging Chapter

01:19:35 • 4min

#615: Today, we're joined by Catherine Gildiner, a best-selling memoirist, novelist, and psychologist in private practice for 25 years. In her book, 'Good Morning, Monster,' she focuses on five patients who overcame enormous trauma - people she considers heroes. Gildiner recounts the details of their struggles, their paths to recovery, and her own tale of growth as a therapist. Today, we're sitting down with Cathy to discuss all things therapy and her experiences as a psychologist who's taken on numerous traumatic cases and healed countless patients of their mental health issues. She also dives into how to achieve confidence, developing emotional competence, and getting to the root cause of insecurity.

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