HG Therapy now available via AVIVA
The Human Givens Institute is now listed as a regulatory body for psychotherapists on insurance company Aviva’s private practice register. This means that MHGI members can now register as therapists with Aviva via the Healthcode website, which is available to Aviva’s members, so that they can work with clients whose treatment is covered by Aviva.
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The Trickster: Medicine's forgotten character
Therapy in all its forms can be confusingly capricious and unpredictable. We should not try to deny this, but learn to accept it, says Larry Dossey MD.
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.
A very different kind of coaching
Frances Masters describes what led her to set up a charity to deliver free psychotherapeutic coaching, based on the human givens.
No more dancing around the problem
After almost losing his life, Stuart Waters is passionate about bringing emotionally healthy practice to the dance world.
The importance of sleep & why we need it
We all take sleep for granted until we have problems with it and then we quickly remember how desirable a good night's sleep is.
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.
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.
Humanity under stress: a survival strategy
The governing organisations of the world seem all at sea. They are missing an essential element: that of the psychology of human nature, which is programmed into us from our genes (the human 'givens').
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The six SCoPEd partners have published their latest update on the important work currently underway with regards to the SCoPEd framework implementation, governance and impact assessment.
Date posted: 14/02/2024
2024 Conference
Our next in-person HGI Conference, is being held on the weekend of 20th and 21st April 2024