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Christian counselling and your GP surgery

You may be surprised to discover that the supposition of popular philosopher and TheTimes’s columnist, A.C. Grayling, and your local GP probably coincide — roughly one third of all visits to the doctor’s surgery have a psychological cause.

Steve King

It is widely accepted that there is a very real, but often indefinable, grey zone between diagnosable physical ailments, that GPs are trained to treat or refer, and recognised mental health issues which are referred on to the psychiatric service.