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An HG lens on Bereavement

Julia Welstead looks at the impact of bereavement and grief
How biohistory affects human nature

Jim Penman tells Ivan Tyrrell how biology drives our social history, explaining temperament change within cultures and the rise and fall of civilisations.
The mysterious Jung: his cult, the lies he told, and the occult

Ivan Tyrrell asks Professor Richard Noll, author of ‘The Jung Cult’, to unravel the lies Carl G Jung told to aggrandise himself and his charismatic psychoanalytic movement.
Why we dream in metaphor

The expectation fulfilment theory of dreaming put forward by Joe Griffin is, to date, the best explanation for why we dream and why we forget our dreams...
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.
Sound sense

Much more is gained from hearing and telling stories, rather than just reading them, says Pat Williams.
A Christmas Carol... or a tale of three therapists?

James Tapper suggests that Charles Dickens’s famous seasonal novel contains much that reflects the human givens approach to therapy.
Great Expectations

Joe Griffin goes back to basics to arrive at some powerful new insights into the givens of human nature.