Catherine Gildiner on Instincts

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"The more civilized a society is the more sex and aggression is repressed"

Catherine Gildiner wrote her doctoral thesis on the influence of Darwin on Freud, and has been a clinical psychologist in private practice for several years. She has written psychological advice column for Chatelaine magazine.  Her first book, the memoir Too Close to the Falls, was published in Canada, the US and the UK to wide acclaim. The second volume of he memoirs, After the Falls  is coming out this Fall.   She is also the author of the novel Seduction (Random House). She posts regular updates to her Web site. She lives with her husband and her three children in Toronto, and is on a competitive rowing team. (Recorded on November 10, 2008)

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