title: The power of counselling--for better or worse?
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003376:Counseling; D005194:Family Practice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011902:Rape; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000628:therapy