Britain’s therapists (0) HAVE been busy over the past six months. In the weeks that followed the EU referendum, there was barely a client who didn’t kick 1 with Brexit. Some wanted to express feelings 2 disenfranchisement and anger. Others, who had struggled with feeling excluded or rejected in the past, felt alarm bells 3 off again. The conversations, all of 4 take place in the consulting room, are critically different from the kind you might have with a neighbour, friend or relative. Sigmund Freud was the first to argue that a therapist needed to be a 5 slate. This enabled a client to project 6 feelings onto them, a process called transference. Online searches and social media mean clients can now unearth 7 myriad of personal details about their therapist. This has 8 some clients into quasi-stalkers.