The power of counselling--for better or worse?
Counselling is an extremely powerful tool, a vital skill to acquire in general practice today. Nevertheless, it must be used wisely and not prescribed wholesale. This article discusses counselling in general practice in relation to a series of cases where a presentation of nightmares disguised underlying repressed traumas.
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