Book Review Counselling for Toads
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BOOK REVIEW
Robert de Board, Counselling for Toads A Psychological Adventure, Brunner-Routledge, 2003
This book is written in novel format and follows the story of ten counselling sessions with client and Counsellor who uses transactional analysis as his problem solving technique. The client is Toad, from Kenneth Grahame's 'Wind in the Willows'. The Counsellor is Heron.
'First they nursed him. Then they encouraged him. Then they told him to pull himself togetherFinally, Badger could stand it no longer. "Now look here Toad, this can go on no longer," he said sternly. "There is only one thing left. You must have counselling!"
(Excerpts from chapter 3, page 11)
This is the prompt that starts Toad's journey through the counselling process in this interesting and captivating book...