Child of our time: how childhood now lasts a lifetime

In general practice we study the so called consultation, and its various models. This causes much hilarity in other specialties: they say, “you can’t teach consultation skills.” This is true to an extent: if you are a plank of wood and you choose to smile, you are still a plank of wood. But the value is the opportunity to make us reflective.⇑

Transactional analysis is one such model of the consultation: it suggests that during interactions with people we adopt three potential roles—that of the parent, …