Subject Area: Ethics

Inside our ethics committee

Monique Nauta, co-chair of the HGI’s Registration and Professional Standards Committee (RPSC), shares important information and also learning points from cases presented within the past year for adjudication or advice.

Inside our ethics committee

Monique Nauta, chair of the HGI’s Registration and Professional Standards Committee (RPSC), describes how and why our complaints procedure has been updated.

Inside our ethics committee

Owen Davis, co-chair of the HGI’s Registration and Professional Standards Committee (RPSC), shares information drawn from the range of work undertaken which will be useful for practitioners to keep in mind.

Inside our ethics committee

Ian Thomson, former deputy chair of, now consultant to, the HGI’s Registration and Professional Standards Committee (RPSC), shares important learning points from cases presented within the past year for adjudication or advice.

Inside our ethics committee

Ian Thomson, deputy chair of the HGI’s Registration and Professional Standards Committee (RPSC), shares important learning points from cases which were presented to the committee within the past year for adjudication or advice.

Inside our ethics committee

In the first of what will become an annual feature, Ian Thomson, deputy chair of the HGI’s Registration and Professional Standards Committee (RPSC), shares learning points from cases presented within the past year for adjudication or advice.

Aspects of good practice

Ian Thomson takes a look at a selection of ethical issues of relevance to human givens practitioners.

The uses and abuses of hypnosis

Ivan Tyrrell warns that hypnosis is a powerful tool that must be used with care, understanding and integrity.

A devastating death

Janine Hurley describes how the HGI Ethics Committee helped her cope, professionally and personally, when, tragically, a client killed herself.

Practising ethically

The HGI Ethics and Complaints Committee considers some of the ethical challenges that human givens practitioners may face. Ian Thomson sets the scene.

How can you sleep at night?

What does it take for lawyers to be able to defend the perpetrators of shocking or morally indefensible crimes? Denise Winn tried to find out.

Knowledge beyond words: confusion and ethics

In 2002 BACP published new ethical guidelines. Before publication, Ivan Tyrrell questioned the main author of the guidelines, Tim Bond, about what they actually mean.

The limits of tolerance: ethics and human nature

At a time when we are struggling with a number of major moral dilemmas, Ivan Tyrrell suggests that the human givens approach can help us reach ethical decisions.

Why abstractions confuse people

Most people think ethics is concerned with truth, justice, equality, loyalty, fairness, values, principles, morals, etc. All these words in italics are abstractions. They are content free. They contain no sensory information. Such words used to be called 'reifications' in philosophy and are now more commonly called 'nominalisations': the term used in linguistics for an abstract noun usually produced by converting a verb into a noun.