Clearly perceives that his thoughts were irrational and there is a cognitive restructuring making it happy. Lord Farquaad, presents a few irrational thoughts thinking like a person better than the others, which makes him develop an arrogant behaviour, tyranny and abuse of power. Through their thoughts of grandeur, understands at all times that your approach is correct and true, no matter the arguments of others. However, this thought hides an unconscious emotional suffering, i.e. Lord Farquaad is not aware that actually has a major inferiority complex. Donkey, as it is reflected above, presents a conflict of fear to loneliness, and from this perspective, irrational thinking of a donkey consists of what you think is not nobody by itself and it needs to be accompanied to be someone. Think that you can sit alone causes you much emotional suffering, so their behavior is flattering, sycophantic, complacent, etc. In the case of all the characters, occurs in my opinion, following the list of irrational ideas (adapted from Ellis and Grieger, 1977), the presence of a matching irrational thinking for all of them: as is absolutely necessary to be loved and adopted by the other almost at all times.

And the overall grade given to themselves, their self-worth and self-acceptance depend on the degree of approval which will give them others, expressed differently by each one of them. Therefore, the objectives of cognitiva-racional therapy will be: identification and modification of the erroneous thoughts and their inadequate behaviour knowledge and correcting cognitive patterns that produce maladaptive ideas assess relevant situations in a realistic way learn to perceive the real facts and not just the biased formulate explanations alternative to test cases generation of skills to correct distortions the therapist will explain to the patient how they work their vicious circles so that they maintain their symptoms. The patient could understand how they relate to their erroneous thoughts with emotional suffering in your specific case.