- Feb 23, 2022
Nowadays, the fast pace of work and life makes many people suffer from anxiety and depression, which has become a health killer that cannot be ignored. The most recent bestseller is Counselling For Toads: A Psychological Adventure.
Toad was a passionate, fashionable and adventurous fellow who caused a lot of trouble and jokes. But now he's stuck in a depression. Alone in his room, he didn't even have the strength to get up and wash himself.
Friends were so worried about him that they suggested he go to counseling. In 10 psychological counseling sessions, Toad bravely explored his inner world under the guidance of the consultant Heron, and gradually found confidence and hope.
Mr Toad was sensitive to judgment, and habitually repressed himself when he felt angry; He often feels wronged by being scolded by his friends. He feels that it is all his fault.
Guided by the patience of the heron, Mr. Toad realizes that he is either in the "child self state" of obedience and adaptation to the ideas of others, or in the "parent self state" of blaming others or himself for perfection, but rarely in the "adult state" of seeing himself rationally.
This book is a very deep healing book. Published more than 20 years ago, has become a national level of the UK psychological counseling primer.
Through the interaction between Toad and the psychological consultant Canglu, the author explores where the toad's self-abasment, weakness, show-off personality and depression come from, and shows us the profound influence of the family of origin on the personality, as well as how to truly grow up psychologically and live an independent, confident and hopeful life.
The author, Robert Diebold, is an experienced psychologist and clinical practitioner in the UK. This book is his most famous and best-selling book on popular psychology.
The book is educational and hilarious in places, while remaining true to the cheerful, idyllic spirit of The Wind in the Willows.