ABSTRACT

This chapter presents a case of a 23-year-old woman who comes to see the general practitioner with her mother. Her mother has brought her because she was in two minds about whether to come. The general practitioner (GP) realizes quickly that he is going to need more than 10 minutes and has one other patient left. She stopped her hobbies such as salsa lessons and going out with friends when they started seeing each other, about 3 months before they got married. He used to accuse her of flirting if he ever saw her laughing or smiling with any other man and she began to restrict who she spoke to as a means of avoiding this. She explains that about 6 months ago her best friend, whom he never really liked, began encouraging her to go out with a group of four old school friends who meet at a line dancing group and go for a drink and meal afterwards.