Volume 23, No 2, 2016

Editorial:

Listening to others’ meanings.

How we are: News, views and information:

• Conflict resolution
• moral character
• children and the importance of curiosity
• medical research
• childhood adversity and genes
• predicting suicide
• biomarker for psychosis
• fingerprint evidence
• knowledge and deception
• helping teenagers cope with social challenges
• gut or reason for better empathy?
• how size of groups affects trust
• the power of reflection
• height and voting tendencies
• suicide deaths in patients under crisis teams
• anxiety at work

LEARNING CURVE.

Putting our house in order

Pat Williams considers the nature of public and private service.

How meaning drives events in the Middle East

Through exploring the draw of organisations like ISIS, John Bell considers more effective responses to Middle East unrest.

Creativity, courage and compassion

Gwen Griffith-Dickson explains how she came to write a novel that creates a new understanding of the ‘war on terror’.

The innate need for meaning: supporting people with complex cancers

Pat Shields describes her work with patients with head and neck cancers and the meaning their experience brings them.

FIRST PERSON: Postnatal depression – through an HG lens

Sara Shoesmith reviews her experience of postnatal depression through her new human givens understandings.

How biohistory affects human nature

Ivan Tyrrell talks with Jim Penman about the role of biology in driving our social history.

When severe emotional damage prevents brief therapy…

Julie Lawrence and Emily Gajewski explain complex symptoms arising from early ongoing abuse, and best forms of therapy.

Raising the bar: HG in the construction industry

John McCredie describes how the human givens informs his approach to successful running of his roofing company.

FIRST PERSON: HG as a scaffolding for life after stroke

Stephen Hill reflects on his experience as he went through rehab.

PLUS: Book Reviews