Tigger on the Couch
Harper Collins
www.harpercollins.co.uk
Have you ever wondered how different Tigger’s life would have been if he’d been prescribed a course of Ritalin and had spent months in therapy? Or pondered whether Eeyore’s unhappiness was due to a chemical imbalance which could have been put right with Prozac? If Beauty had told her therapist about her relationship with the Beast, she would have been diagnosed as co-dependent and taught how to work on her own issues first. Winnie the Pooh had addiction issues − remember the lengths he’d go to for his honey fix? And the Wizard of Oz was undoubtedly a narcissist.
These are the characters we grew up with and that we now encourage our children to spend time with. How have they shaped our ideas about love, life, inner peace and good mental health? They may have been created long before every behavioural tick was assigned a four-letter acronym, but it’s all too easy to see how their characteristics might be processed today by the medical establishment. Would Tigger be better off on medication, or should we leave him as he is?
Written in conjunction with expert advice from prominent UK psychiatrists, TIGGER ON THE COUCH will be an entertaining gift book, but it will also be an approachable primer into the subject of mental health -- a pithy and witty way into a knotty subject.
Foreign rights have been sold in Brazil, China, Germany and Korea.
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