New insights and understandings
The holistic human givens approach has generated, through the research of its co-founders and others, new insights and findings which are consistent with the latest neuroscientific research (as well as findings from other disciplines), and have major implications for making not only psychotherapy and counselling more effective, but also education and psychological interventions in general.
These are fully covered on the HG Diploma course and individually on other HG College’s, online courses and UK-based training days, in the Human Givens Journal and our many publications.
They include:
- a simple framework to identify why an individual is experiencing poor mental health and what can be done about it
- an understanding which shows how the brain works through ‘pattern matching’. Known as the APET™ model, it is compatible with neuroscience and pre-dates it
- new insights into trauma and how best to treat it
- a compelling explanation for the why we dream and its huge implications for our emotional health
- a holistic, integrated theory for why depression develops and persists
- the role of REM sleep, too much or too little, in a variety of common mental disorders
- a common-sense explanation and treatment for addiction and withdrawal symptoms
- a new understanding of, and treatment for, irrational compulsive behaviours
- an explanation for metaphor as a powerful aid in treatment
- a psychobiological explanation for clinical hypnosis and the mechanisms common to all forms of hypnotic induction
- an intriguing hypothesis for the prominent features of autism
- context blindness (previously termed caetextia) as an explanation that accounts for both extremes of the autistic spectrum
- a psychobiological accounting for psychosis and a compelling explanation for the conflicting symptoms of psychotic illness.