The road to recovery
Iain Caldwell describes how the human givens approach to helping people in distress has had a huge impact on mental health services in Hartlepool.
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Bringing the help to home
Most severe, even psychotic, mental illness can be helped more effectively at home than in hospital. Professor Marcellino Smyth illustrates how home treatment services work. >> Read
A new look at psychosis
Ivan Tyrrell and Richard Bentall discuss patient-centred new approaches
to the understanding and treatment of psychotic illness. >> Read
Working with psychosis — once a week
Emily Lindsey Clark describes how, as a therapist in private practice, she helped a client overcome the psychotic delusions that were keeping her trapped. >> Read
From self-harm to self-belief
Emily Lindsey Clark describes how the human givens approach has provided a practical focus for working with women struggling to cope with everyday life. >> Read
Imagination and Madness
Ivan Tyrrell talks with Daniel Nettle about the far closer than expected connection between psychosis and creative thinking. >> Read
“This trembling web”: The brain and beyond
Joe Griffin talks with Professor Ian Robertson about the role of experience in the sculpting of our brains, and why certain types of counselling may do harm. >> Read
Dreaming to forget: the real reason why
Joe Griffin explains why dreaming, and forgetting our dreams, fulfils a vital human need. >> Read
Why psychiatrists should be more like plumbers
Dr Farouk Okhai opens his casebook to show how the human givens approach can best help severely distressed people. >> Read
including: The power of deep relaxation and guided imagery
Find out more about psychosis >> Read
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