Catherine Gildiner is an American-born author and former clinical psychologist whose writing brings psychological inquiry to memoir, fiction, and narrative nonfiction. Raised in New York State and long based in Toronto, she spent twenty-five years in private practice before developing a literary career that draws on her professional background and an interest in memory, personality, and the history of ideas.
Her 1999 memoir Too Close to the Falls began a three-volume autobiographical sequence, followed by After the Falls and Coming Ashore. The books trace successive periods of her life, from childhood in the Niagara region through youth and early adulthood. Gildiner also turned her doctoral research on Darwin and Freud into the intellectual suspense novel Seduction. Published by Vintage Canada in 2005, the novel follows a former prisoner drawn into a mystery connected with Freudian scholarship. Her later book Good Morning, Monster presents accounts of five former therapy patients and reflects on clinical work and emotional recovery.
Too Close to the Falls received the Different Drummer Award and was nominated for the Trillium Book Award. Gildiner’s official website currently lists The House of the Seven Cellars, a novel connected to Underground Railroad history in Lewiston, New York, as forthcoming. Her official website and publisher profiles document a body of work shaped by the meeting of psychological experience and storytelling.
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