Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure

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For anyone wishing to know something about Transactional Analysis this is a clear and very readable introduction. -- The Friend

Not only an instructive handbook for those in any way contemplating counselling... it is warmly funny and respectful of the spirit of Grahame's novel. If he had written his own sequel he might have ended it like this one." - Jan Mark, Times Educational Supplement These people will be taking their time to take this drug while a facilitator watches them if there are side effects that may occur while taking the medication. There is an audible version of this book which is narrated by Charles Hunt who made the characters feel real and the counselling process more authentic.A delightful book which... offers a gentle introduction to transactional analysis and much more." - Relate News

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This is a fantastic book. Well written and easy to understand and follow. The counselling process is very eloquently explained from beginning to end and as Toad learns to understand himself and the world around him I could feel his progress and felt genuine empathy with him when the work got hard. Over the course of ten sessions, which correspond to chapters of the book, a very depressed Toad learns how to analyse his own feelings and develop his emotional intelligence using the language and ideas of transactional analysis. He meets his 'rebellious child' and his 'adult' along the way and by the end of the book, Toad is setting out on a completely new adventure – as debonair as he ever was. It had been an enormous relief to tell another person about his experiences, without being laughed at or rejected… What pleased him most was the way Heron seemed to be genuinely interested in all of it.”Heron explains counselling beautifully and we accompany Toad as he explores his difficult childhood and how that is influencing him in the present, how he has trouble expressing his anger and the guilt that he feels and how he relates to his friends Rat, Mole and Badger. I would recommend this book to any counsellor or counselling student. Or indeed anyone going through counselling themselves. Counselling for Toads is a joy. 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. You'll want to read The Wind in the Willows again after this version of the story - and you'll read it with new eyes." - Claire Rayner