New insights and understandings

These are covered at length on the HG Diploma course and individually on other HG College's, online courses and UK-based training days and are fully referenced in our many publications.

They include:

Helps us to identify why a person is experiencing their current difficulties and what can be done about it

A new view of the unconscious mind – the APET™ model – which is compatible with neuroscience, clinical experience and experiment, and which shows how the brain works through ‘pattern matching’. This supersedes cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) because it is more true to the reality of brain functioning

An holistic understanding of the evolutionary origins and function of human dreaming, which has huge implications for our emotional health

The discovery of ‘molar memories’ which generate and maintain some instances of compulsive behaviour (such as sexual compulsions, anorexia and bulimia)

An understanding of why the use of metaphor is so powerful as a form of treatment

A psychobiological explanation of clinical hypnosis, why it works and what mechanisms are common to all forms of hypnotic induction

A more comprehensive understanding of the importance of the REM (rapid eye movement) state in generating reality and accessing intuitive knowledge

Explore our articles and interviews

The Social Brain

Denise Winn talks with Professor John Ratey about the brain as a social organ, and the need to be alert early to inept social skills.
Psychotherapy's Third Wave? The promise of narrative

The fundamental new direction in therapy is more than just a set of new techniques explains Bill O'Hanlon in an article first published in 1995.
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.
Therapy techniques that work

In the first of an occasional series featuring contributions from HG practitioners, Miriam Chachamu shares two simple therapeutic ideas that fit well with the human givens toolkit.
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.
Sue's Story - IRA bombing

In 1991 Sue Hanisch was caught up in an IRA bombing at Victoria Station, London. She lost her right leg as a result and sufferd from severe PTSD for nine years…
Sue Gray

When someone's daily life becomes bogged down by a personal difficulty, they often cannot find a way through it for themselves...
Blue sky vision

There’s no mystery in the news that the 20th January is labelled