Secondly, therapists have professional methods to open the client's mind and help them uncover their real thoughts. He has lost so much weight that his plus-fours, which had once fit him well, look like two potato sacks covering his thin, shriveled legs. It's as if we find a script early in life and constantly push ourselves and those around us, consciously or subconsciously, to act out that script. As the reader learns about Toad, the story sheds light on our own lives, psychological growth and development. Badger would usually criticize Toad's fashionable clothes as being bizarre, and accuse Toad of lacking self-respect.

Badger is one of Toad’s friends, or rather a friend of Toad’s father, who is harsh on Toad whenever he makes mistakes. Transactional Analysis is a psychoanalytic theory that helps to identify the ego state of the communicator as a basis for understanding behavior. Even as we grow older and have more life experience, we still see everything from the perspective we adopted as a child. We can see that feeling “depressed” is often associated with specific things; that is to say, feeling dejected is not random, but it is caused by a situation in your life.The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma is a life-changing book that shows you how to make the most of your mornings and transform your life.

A must-read for anyone approaching counselling for the first time, whether as a student or as a client, or for the professional counsellor looking for something to recommend to the hesitant.

Not just because it is an extremely clever Kenneth Grahame pastiche, but because it actually explains counselling as a method of dealing with psychological distress with admirable clarity.

Sách có nhắc đến khuôn mẫu cảm xúc, cách xử lý cảm xúc đúng cách chớ không nên chối bỏ, ngó lơ hay đè nén nó. This lack of intimate interaction between mother and son caused Toad to experience a lonely childhood without love or happiness. The theory is described clearly yet convincingly through the client/counsellor relationship with plentiful uses of metaphor, good humour, and irony that make us smile indulgently, not only at Toad but also at ourselves at times as we recognise some of our own frailties. For over 25 years Counselling for Toads has provided readers with a warm and engaging introduction to counselling, brought to life by Toad and his friends from Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.

I love this book it recognises the dynamics we all play using the simple structure of the wind in the willows book to make and important point.