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Sign up todayCounselling for Toads
A Psychological Adventure
Narrator
Richard Pryal
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Length
5 hours 5 minutes
Language
English
Summary
Over 3 million copies sold worldwide and translated into seven languages!
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.
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.
Readers will learn about the counselling process and themselves as they join Toad on his journey from psychological distress to psychological growth and development. 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.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Richard Pryal
ISBN:
9781032245911
Length:
5 hours 5 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Publication date:
July 1, 2022
Edition:
Unabridged
Reviews
"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
"For anyone wishing to know something about transactional analysis this is a clear and very readable introduction." - The Friend
"This engaging pastiche of Kenneth Grahame's riverbank classic... manages to be not only instructive and, at times, extremely amusing, but also to remain remarkably faithful to the cheery, bucolic spirit of the original... extremely enjoyable."- Paul Sussman, in the Independent on Sunday
"An imaginative attempt to explain the counselling process... the idea of counselling is all around, but this demystified it wittily." - Openmind
"A delightful book which... offers a gentle introduction to transactional analysis and much more." - Relate News
"A clever intertwining of the tale of Toad and the intricate thought processes behind the science of counselling... a classic journey of discovery, triumph and pain."- Book of the Day, Glasgow Herald
"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
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