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  Why hypnosis and the power of the mind matter in medicine

  In the 1930s a Bedouin tribesman introduced a young Irish doctor to the powers of the subconscious mind. Sixty years later, after doing over four thousand operations using hypnosis. Dr Jack Gibson talks to Joe Griffin..

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  Common ground: diplomacy and the human givens

  John Bell suggests that only a radically different, innate needs-based approach to conflict resolution can bring a possibility of peace to the Middle East.

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  Book Review – The Attention Merchants: how our time and attention are gathered and sold

  Ivan Tyrrell reviews "The Attention Merchants: how our time and attention are gathered and sold" by Tim Wu (Atlantic Books, £20.00)

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  Why abstractions confuse people

  Most people think ethics is concerned with truth, justice, equality, loyalty, fairness, values, principles, morals, etc. All these words in italics are abstractions. They are content free. They contain no sensory information. Such words used to be called 'reifications' in philosophy and are now more commonly called 'nominalisations'.

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  Dancing out of step

  Miriam Chachamu explains why she is always mindful of those who are not in the therapy room.

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  Mind-Body Connection – Dublin City FM Radio Interview

  Brian Greene and HG tutor Dr Andrew Morrice discuss the mind-body connection and explore the relationships between the three big E’s…

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  Ten-minute therapy

  GP Adam Lake describes how he makes effective use of HG understandings and techniques in consultations for mental health conditions.

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  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...