This week, Professor Irving Kirsch and his colleagues at the University of Hull released the long-awaited results of an extensive meta-analysis of clinical trial data for new generation antidepressants. Their findings were splashed (in simplified terms) over the front pages of most of the major newspapers: “Antidepressants do not work”.
The Royal Society of Chemistry’s website […]
Entries from February 2008
“Antidepressants do not work” - how the media distorts research
February 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: University of Hull · antidepressant meta analysis · randomised control trials · SSRI's · prozac trial · antidepressants · irving kirsch · Depression
Human Givens Diploma Course Introductory Talk Video
February 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Watch Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell passionately summarise the development and importance of the first bio-psycho-social model of mental health and wellbeing – the human givens approach – on the inspiring introductory talk given at the beginning of the Human Givens Diploma Course in January 2008.
The human givens approach draws together the latest scientific […]
Tags: Human Givens · Psychosis · Manic Depression · Ivan Tyrrell · Joe Griffin · Bipolar · Hypnosis · Dream interpretation · PTSD · Addiction · Autism · Dreaming · Psychotherapy · Therapy · Schizophrenia · Trauma · Depression
Emotional Needs Audit of the UK: Latest figures
February 13th, 2008 · No Comments
For the last 18 months the Human Givens Institute Emotional Needs Audit (ENA project) has been running, collecting data on how the emotional needs of the population of the United Kingdom are being met.
Anyone can take part, and with over 4,500 respondants so far, we are able to extrapolate the results into millions of people […]
Tags: Emotional Needs Audit · Human Givens · Emotional needs