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Human Givens
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Human Givens

Subtitle The new approach to emotional health and clear thinking
By Joe Griffin & Ivan Tyrrell
ISBN 9781899398317
Category Mind/Body
Winter 2014

Synopsis

The authors describe how we are all born with a rich natural inheritance – a partially formed mind containing a genetic treasure house of innate knowledge patterns: the ‘human givens’. It suggests that, as a society, we are unwittingly damaging or squandering our natural inheritance and shows how to overcome this. 

Author's Biography

Joe Griffin is a social psychologist with graduate and postgraduate degrees from the LSE. He has had many years experience both in psychotherapeutic practice and in training. Ivan Tyrrell, co-author has also worked for many years as a psychotherapist and lecturer and is now joint director of Human Givens College.

Reviews

"I wholeheartedly recommend Human Givens to any individual with a burning interest in how life works and can be helped to work better." 
Dr Nick Baylis, Lecturer in Positive Psychology, Cambridge University
Price £14.99

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Reader Comments

Life changing applicable ideas. Human psychology for the 21st century.
Very insightful. Real practical focus on people's basic emotional needs. Provides ideas that make sense of a lot of problems and decisions people face in their day to day lives.
Integrates the best of psychological theory in a clear and useful manner.
Life changing book
Amazing life changing book that gives a framework for a thriving life, helps you master your emotions and thinking...pretty useful I would say! ;oD
This books opens up whole realms of insights and ideas for understanding mental illness and devising practical ways for people to regain their health and wholeness.
The most useful, interesting and invaluable book on how to be emotionally well I have ever read. Really, ever! And I have read hundreds
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