Latest edition of the Human Givens Journal out now
Volume 23, No 1, 2016
The latest edition of the Human Givens Journal is now available.
This volume features articles from: Cherry Dale, Ian Thomson, Lorraine Trapman, Marion Brown, Janet Donnelly and Ivan Tyrrell. Stephan Perdekamp and Sarah Victoria also tell Jane Jones about innate emotional movement patterns and their role in health. Regular columnist Pat Williams explores how the stories we may unwittingly spin about ourselves stop us from really seeing and editor Denise Winn finds out about the Open Dialogue approach to working with people in psychotic crisis.
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PTSD: why some techniques for treating it work so fast
In this article, Joe Griffin suggests that techniques which can yield immediate success, may share an underlying mechanism.
"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..
Madness, creativity and human nature
Ivan Tyrrell talks with Daniel Nettle about the far closer than expected connection between psychosis and creative thinking.
How schools are using the human givens approach
Human givens principles have been introduced to over 200 schools and adopted systemically by some. Here, four headteachers provide a vivid snapshot of their impact.
Targets, inspections and the human givens in schools
Trevor Bailey, head of Worle School, raises issues about the impact of targets and inspections on the well-being of staff and thus on motivation and effectiveness..
Treating schizophrenia without drugs
Treatmenta for schizophrenia that involve no drugs, or only low doses of them, urgently need investigation, suggests Dr Tim Calton, lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Nottingham, and colleagues.
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.
‘Guilt sensitivity’: a possible part to play in OCD
People who find guilt feelings highly difficult to tolerate may be especially prone to the OCD-type behaviours of compulsive checking or checking rituals...
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