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Tigger on the Couch: The Neuroses, Psychoses, Maladies and Disorders of Our Favourite Children's Characters (Paperback)

by Laura James (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Collins; illustrated edition edition (1 Oct 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007248954
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007248957
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 115,638 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #38 in  Books > Humour > Self-Help & Psychology
    #45 in  Books > Humour > Doctors & Medicine
    #70 in  Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Psychology & Psychiatry > Popular Psychology

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Product Description
Remember those adorable characters you spent your childhood with? Well now it's time to see them in a different light! Tigger on the Couch is a highly amusing take on self-help and psychological disorders, providing an insightful and astute analysis of our favourite characters' mental health issues, and asking how they shaped our ideas about love, life, inner peace and good mental health. Imagine the transformation in Tigger's life if he'd received anti-hyperactivity drugs. If Beauty had told her therapist about her relationship with the Beast, she would have been diagnosed as co-dependant. 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. Packed with hilarious yet decidedly accurate and probing case studies, this book gradually unveils the neuroses, psychoses and disorders plaguing our beloved childhood characters. Get an insight into the character's traits, diagnosis and theoretical treatment programme, and learn more about yourself and your loved-ones through ten-point exercises. So sit back and find out what your favourite character says about you, and how they would have been treated if they had traded the Hundred Acre Wood for a spell in the Priory.

About the Author
Laura James is the author of four books and works as a consultant to "cool hunters" The Next Big Thing, reporting on food, home and leisure future trends for major brands and the media. She is also Managing Director of The Mabel Gray Company, a successful PR and editorial agency working with exclusive British brands.

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Nonsense written by someone with no relevant qualifications, 20 April 2008
It's a shame that Ms James felt she should to author a book that she is unqualified to write. "Author, Journalist and Magazine editor" (from the book itself) Laura James should stick to subjects she knows something about, and leave psychology and psychiatry to those of us who are actually qualified to write about it.

Her ludicrous misunderstanding of even the most basic psychiatric concepts would be laughable if they weren't so potentially damaging. Her notions of the characters here being 'ill' are nonsense, and show that she does not understand that psychopathology is culturally situated. Winnie the Pooh lives well in his space and culture, with a house, good friends, enough food etc. He is happy and has a fulfilling life. Drug and behavior therapy (as she suggests) would not be indicated, and the very notion that they would is repugnant.

I think Ms James has misunderstood the purpose of psychology and psychiatry. It is not to indoctrinate, and failing that to drug, everyone into some bland conformity, but rather to relieve distress. Her 'case studies' demonstrate her simple misunderstanding of this basic point.

I was further distressed to note that she has also failed to research her source material sufficiently. Winnie the Pooh's songs do not "Cause distress to his friends and neighbors" (p.49) rather they are often pleased by them and request them to mark special occasions. The whole book is replete with these kinds of errors of fact, which makes her laughable interpretations all the more ludicrous.

What concerns me most is that some people will understandably buy this book in the belief that the contents are an accessible introduction to a series of facts. They are not. Consequently, I shall not be recommending it in my own practice. I urge you instead to buy one of the many quality introductory works available that are written by people who have some basic knowledge of (and qualification in) the subject.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gives me a new way of looking at childhood characters, 3 Jan 2009
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I am an American 12-year-old, but my father brought this book back from London on a business trip. When I first saw it the title struck me as quite interesting. This book is simultaneously highly entertaining, intelligent, and insightful. When I first opened the book I was given a new understanding of the characters that, as a child, I thought I had known. I would highly recommend this book to adults and children alike.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Revealing, entertaining and informative, 3 Oct 2007
There was a girl I remember in my early years at high school who had a peculiar but highly effective way of securing attention from boys she fancied. She would attend many of our home rugby matches and, at some point during the first half (presumably because she reasoned the players might be less muddy at this stage of the game) she would feign illness on the touchline and, with great flourish, pretend to faint, falling to the ground in a heap. Those among us not familiar with her antics - including most of the opposition team - would, on seeing the fuss being made of her, rush to her aid. Despite her plight, she would nevertheless have the presence of mind then to slip a piece of paper with her phone number on to the wing-back or prop forward she had most taken a shine to. So many years later, this book has shed considerable light for me on what might have prompted her to behave in this way; perhaps she had grown up listening to and then reading fairy tales and children's fiction in which the heroine (needy and hapless) would invariably be rescued by a dashing prince. The subliminal messages in seemingly harmless prose might in some way have helped create in her a need to adopt a position of helplessness in the belief that this was the surest way to secure the attention she so desperately craved. It's insights like this that this book - clear, revealing, entertaining and, at times, amusing - is wonderful for. It makes the reader re-examine the underlying messages in the books many of us would consider childhood staples and I would recommend it thoroughly. PS: I heard a few weeks ago via an email from an old friend that the girl in question (let's call her Penny) was happily married to a doctor in Sunderland.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, light-hearted, and informative
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5.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly enjoyable
A very enjoyable, insightful and interesting read. I discovered a lot about psychological disorders and it was really thought-provoking. Definitely a book I would recommend.
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1.0 out of 5 stars nasty little book of pathology
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5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking reading
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