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Psychotherapy and trainees

Current practice, its perceived importance and the question of lay counsellors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Byrne and
David Meagher
Peter Byrne*
Affiliation:
St Vincent's Hospital Elm Park, Dublin
David Meagher
Affiliation:
St Davnett's Hospital Monaghan
*
∗ Correspondence
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The value and efficacy of psychotherapy is currently being debated both within (Gabbard et al, 1997) and outside the profession. One commentator has spoken of psychotherapy's populist synonym ‘counselling’, as the ‘valium of this era”, where counselling “does not cause the same clouding of consciousness as drugs, but its side-effects are twice as bad” (Dalrymple, 1996).

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 11 , November 1997, pp. 707 - 710
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