These ideas are also identified in the effects of counselling therapies such as Egan (1990), Rogers (1951) and Corey (1991). Carl Rogers, whose work forms the basis of nursing humanistic philosophies, stressed the need for the counsellor to become a fully functioning human being. Whilst the benefits of ventilating ones thoughts and emotions have been reported to be effective, the CS process is not too dissimilar to debriefing which has received some criticism