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Body image and mental health
Julia Welstead looks at why we care so much about body image
Music to my ears
Working as a therapist is rarely a first career and is often the result of a mid-life change of track. Here Kat Marlow relates her particular path through the diverse careers of orchestral musician and process engineer, as well as her own mental health challenges, to her current role as HG practitioner and DWP trainer.
No more dancing around the problem
After almost losing his life, Stuart Waters is passionate about bringing emotionally healthy practice to the dance world.
“But he gave me flowers”
Ros Jeal describes how she is helping women stop themselves from being lured back into abusive relationships.
Meeting emotional needs whilst socially isolating or working from home
Our mental and physical health depend upon meeting emotional needs in healthy ways. This keeps stress levels low and allows our immune syst
The brain inflamed
GP Andrew Morrice explores the part inflammation plays in depression and how that connects with human givens understandings.
When severe emotional damage prevents brief therapy…
Julie Lawrence explains some complex forms of PTSD caused by severe emotional harm in childhood, and explores a role for HG therapists. And Emily Gajewski shares her case experience.
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.
Trending Articles
The uses and abuses of hypnosis
Ivan Tyrrell warns that hypnosis is a powerful tool that must be used with care, understanding and integrity.
The mysterious Jung: his cult, the lies he told, and the occult
Ivan Tyrrell asks Professor Richard Noll, author of ‘The Jung Cult’, to unravel the lies Carl G Jung told to aggrandise himself and his charismatic psychoanalytic movement.
7-11 breathing: How does deep breathing make you feel more relaxed?
With mindfulness now all the rage, many online articles are now advocating breathing techniques as a way to lessen anxiety and control stress levels.
Normal birth can be pain free
Sheila Barratt-Smith tells Denise Winn that the images and language used to describe birth can determine whether a woman experiences pain — or euphoria.
The Emotional Needs Scale
Brett Culham describes the outcome of his research to validate the needs-based human givens approach to psychological health.
PTSD: why some techniques for treating it work so fast
In this article, Joe Griffin suggests that techniques which can yield immediate success, may share an underlying mechanism.
How to lift depression quickly and safely
Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell explain how and why a human givens approach can help therapists shift depression in just a few sessions — or less.
The fast cure for phobia and trauma: evidence that it works
Counsellors who use it know that the 'rewind technique' is fast, safe, painless and effective for dealing with trauma. Keith Guy and Nicola Guy have tested it in research.
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Ivan Tyrrell interviews Dr Iain McGilchrist
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Date posted: 10/01/2022