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New research analysing 14 studies over the last six years is debunking the widely held belief that a “depression gene” is the cause for major depression. Efforts to replicate the 2003 study which proposed the existence of such a gene have failed, while the link between depression and stressful life events was strengthened across all […]

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There are now free articles about various aspects of the human givens approach available on Scribd.
Available so far:
- Molar Memories: how an ancient mechanism can ruin lives
- What is the Human Givens Approach?
- Caetextia: a new definition of autism and Asperger’s
-  How to lift depression quickly and safely
- Depression - Some distortions of fact
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HG Conference 2009 - Cultural Change is Free - John Seddon talk now available online:

This is an enlightening and entertaining talk by John Seddon, author of the book “Systems Thinking in the Public Sector” (read more reviews here)
He explains why targets make organisations worse and controlling costs makes costs higher.  This elegant dissection of […]

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The Emotional Needs Audit (ENA) is an online survey that has been running for several years and now has been filled in by over 8,400 respondents. The survey aims to find out how well we feel our innate emotional needs are being met. The results below are arrived at by adding together all respondents who
scaled […]

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A post called 12 Most Annoying Habits of Bad Therapists over at Psych Central, including eating during a session, turning up late, falling asleep, obvious clock watching and excessive note taking has generated a lot comments from people relating their own, often shocking, experiences of bad therapists. Therapists who bring in pets to […]

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We have just passed the 50,000 views mark of the depression and REM sleep video! Thanks to everyone who has watched and passed on the link and lets aim for another 50,000! Here are some recent youtube comments that people have left:
- “I have to say that was so “right on the bullseye” it was […]

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The Human Givens approach now has a Twitter you can follow.
Twitters are little news feeds that are regularly updated with “tweets” (there is a maximum of 140 characters for each tweet) so you can keep up to date with an organisation or individual in regular small live updates. Stephen Fry has one - so it […]

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Often the media will pick up on a quirky psychology study which links mental illness to a new treatment option, recent examples including using the game Tetris as a treatment for PTSD and how knitting is beneficial from depression sufferers. These studies are conducted in good faith and produce useful information for people suffering from […]

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Here are some more YouTube videos we have recently added to the MindFields College Channel:

Ivan Tyrrell talks about the innate emotional needs that must be met for good mental health. The goal of all therapy should be to get these needs met as far as possible.

The emotional needs are:
1. The need to feel secure
2. […]

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From BBC News: Talking therapy good for eating disorders
From Science Blogs: Cocaine and Ritalin are essentially the same thing, why do children not get addicted to Ritalin?
From Psych Central:
- Brain differences in trauma suffers generate insight into PTSD
- Make decisions by not thinking about them.
- Six steps to living in the moment
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Volume 15 […]

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