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  • 20 years of the human givens

    We take a look at what's been achieved since two pioneering psychotherapists put a name to this powerful understanding of human nature and mental health...

  • Why we dream in metaphor

    The expectation fulfilment theory of dreaming put forward by Joe Griffin is, to date, the best explanation for why we dream and why we forget our dreams...

  • Sound sense

    Much more is gained from hearing and telling stories, rather than just reading them, says Pat Williams.

  • The carrot and the stick

    Mark Evans describes how working imaginatively with rewards and punishments has helped his clients achieve very swift change

  • Are you ok? Don’t miss signs of depression

    Would you know if someone you care about has depression? Most people probably think that they would, but it isn’t necessarily as obvious as you might expect. Indeed, until some simple screening questionnaires were introduced for GPs to use, half of them were missing the diagnosis in patients that came to consult them.

  • The Emotional Needs Scale

    Brett Culham describes the outcome of his research to validate the needs-based human givens approach to psychological health.

  • 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'.

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