Volume 14, No 3, 2007

Editorial:

Powerful methods required

How We Are: news, views and information

• Dreaming in metaphor
• tricks of the eye: the role of attention
• giving to charity
• teenage problem talk
• effects of beliefs about health and fitness
• travelling fellowship
• human givens effectiveness study
• visualising success
• A&E staff and self-harmers
• self-help depression books versus CBT
• ‘couple’ carers
• work-related mental ill health

Always something behind it…

Pat Williams takes a wry look at conspiracy theories.

“There was no place of safety”: PTSD in Rwanda

Maarit Brooks and Carly Raby describe their trip to Rwanda to spread human givens skills for dealing with post-traumatic stress.

Children of the genocide

Lorraine Debnam describes her experience of working with Rwandan street children and their helpers.

A game of badminton

David Grist illustrates how working from the human givens approach generates creative solutions.

The cult of parenthood

When one parent turns a child against the other parent, the effects mirror those experienced in cults. By Amy Baker.

The artefact of adolescence

Robert Epstein tells Piers Bishop why ‘adolescence’ is an artificial – and harmful – modern invention.

TALKING POINT

Iain Caldwell considers whether cannabis really does cause psychosis.

Thinking outside the toybox

How a teddy bear and some packs of cards helped a girl decide she wanted to live instead of die. By Chris Dyas.

PLUS: Book Reviews, Letters.