Volume 17, No 2, 2010

Editorial:

Different views, different needs.

How we are: News, views and information:

• Stopping smoking
• when clients deteriorate
• paroxetine and breast cancer
• emotional memories and repression
• ADHD and creativity
• chronically ill children
• exam success
• bipolar disorder and high grades
• CBT self-help that can harm
• cheerful exercise
• insomnia
• materialism
• schizophrenia: another labelling effect
• volunteering
• excluded autistic children
• ‘social flow’
• and more…

The cost of coming in from the cold

We so badly need our ‘mad’ poets, says Pat Williams.

Human givens: back to the basics

Farouk Okhai says the organising ideas that underpin this approach to therapy sometimes get overlooked.

Meaningful pastimes – and past times

Adele Stancliffe shows how carers can be helped to enhance the lives of elderly people in care homes.

The curious incident of the four-armed aliens

Renee van der Vloodt describes how careres can be helped to enhance the lives of elderly people in care homes.

Patterns of perception

Lawrence Rosenblum talks with Denise Winn about our fascinating and unconscious multisensory abilities.

Choosing compassion could help us survive

Pat Williams looks at what is known about our compassionate instinct – and how we can strengthen it.

Stop the war!

Deirdre Barrett says humans are so violent because our instincts are out of synch with modern-day living.

Rehearsing success

Paul Dow shows struggling students how to meet their needs through using the human givens approach.

PLUS: Book Reviews, Letters