First she shared student quarters with men that turned out to be allied with the FLQ, resulting in her being questioned again, this time by Canadian police, followed by free rent at a high-rise that was revealed as a centre for illegal drug trade. Her time in England included encounters with both Bill Clinton and Jimi Hendrix.Īfter Oxford, Gildiner finished her bachelor's degree at Ohio University, followed by teaching at Thomas Paine High School, scene of recent race riots, where she successfully engaged black students that had been given up as a lost cause by some of her colleagues.Ī scholarship allowed her to attend Victoria College at the University of Toronto for her master's degree with leading Coleridge scholar Kathleen Coburn. According to her autobiography, this was the only poem she'd 'ever written before or since', and it allowed her to leave the US where she had been questioned by the FBI over her involvement with a boyfriend who was a part of the Black Panther Party movement. She managed her entry into Oxford partly on the strength of a poem on Milton's Paradise Lost which she wrote after ingesting a friend's psycho-pharmaceutical that was supposed to keep her awake long enough to finish her essay. Gildiner's latest biographical segment describes her time at the University of Oxford's Trinity College starting in 1968 where she was one of only two female students (both American) studying literature, and where the clashes of American and British culture provided many interesting and entertaining episodes. Gildiner was born in Lewiston, New York, was later raised in Niagara Falls, New York, and spent her teen years in Amherst near Buffalo. in Psychology(1975), PhD in psychology(1983) – Influence of Darwin on FreudĬatherine Gildiner (born 1948) is an American–Canadian author and clinical psychologist.

Gildiner holding a copy of the third installment in her memoir trilogy, Coming Ashoreī.A.

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