Would you like to learn more?
If you feel inspired by the information and case histories on this website, we suggest you take a look at the training offered by Human Givens College
It is the official, international source of training in the human givens approach to psychotherapy and counselling and offers a wide range of courses, both online and in person, on how best to help people with a range of emotional and behavioural problems. It also offers essential psychotherapeutic and counselling skills training.
You can develop your own knowledge and skills through its:
- Online courses
- One- and two-day courses (currently held in the UK and Ireland)
- Diploma Course
Training in the USA
For the first time ever, Human Givens College is taking its training courses to America this Fall (2017) – for more information, please contact John Shuford at the North Carolina Human Givens Center
You can read more about human givens courses here
Explore our articles and interviews
Madness, creativity and human nature
Ivan Tyrrell talks with Daniel Nettle about the far closer than expected connection between psychosis and creative thinking.
Don’t Worry, Be Happy… and Overcome Anxiety.
Do you think of yourself as an anxious person? This can lead you to think that anxiety is your lot; that there is damn all you can do about it. Well, that isn’t true at all and you are confining yourself to a limiting box if you continue to believe that...
Case Study: Evidence that it works, the fast cure for phobia and trauma
Read about how a Faulklands war veteran overcame the severe flashbacks and panic attacks he suffered for 20 years after a horrifically traumatising experience during his service in the navy.
The therapist's account
Read Mike Beard's therapist account of Nina's treatment.
The riddle of conditioned taste adversion
THE pain–pleasure recall principle also explains the well-known phenomenon of conditioned taste aversion, which has always presented a problem for classical conditioning.
"What was that you said again?" - a new look at psychosis
Ivan Tyrrell and Richard Bentall discuss patient-centred new approaches to the understanding and treatment of psychotic illness..
Book Review – The Buddha Pill: can meditation change you?
Ivan Tyrrell reviews "The Buddha Pill: can meditation change you?" by Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm (Watkins Publishing, £10.99).
Human givens and social work
Social work should be about helping people yet, bogged down in bureaucracy, it has lost its way. Jan Little shows how the human givens approach can put it back on track.
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