Join me and my guest Ivan Tyrrell as we dive into the basic
fundamentals of what it means to be a thriving and emotionally
healthy human being. Based on his co-authored work "Human Givens: a
New Approach to Emotional Health and Clear Thinking" Ivan shares
the fundamental necessities that all humans share. We dive into
what doesn't work about modern psychotherapy, why REM state and
dreaming is essential for our health, how trance and hypnosis is
essential for learning and even into the nature of consciousness.
Ivan Tyrrell worked for many years as a psychotherapist
(specialising in brief therapy for depression and anxiety). He now
spends most of his time lecturing and writing.
As a Director of
Human
Givens College, editorial director of the Human Givens Journal,
and board member of the Human Givens Institute, his influence in
(and knowledge of) the field of psychotherapy and counseling is
considerable.
In 1992 he and a group of psychologists and psychotherapists
established the European Therapy Studies Institute (ETSI), whose
aim was to discover why some psychotherapy approaches appeared to
work and others didn’t. ETSI quickly gained several hundred members
from a wide variety of professions whose support enabled them to
publish a journal, The Therapist, the forerunner of the Human
Givens journal.
The
human
givens approach to psychotherapy and psychology developed out
of the work and research of this group as they endeavored to bring
greater clarity to the way people who become depressed, anxious,
traumatized or addicted are helped, as well as making such help
more reliably effective.
Ivan is also co-author with Joe Griffin of numerous, influential
titles, including:
Human Givens: the new approach to emotional health and clear
thinking
How to lift depression… fast
Why we dream: the definitive answer
Freedom from Addiction: The secret behind successful addiction
busting
How to Master Anxiety
An Idea in Practice: Using the human givens approach
Release from Anger: Practical help for controlling unreasonable
rage
Godhead: The Brain’s Big Bang – the explosive origin of creativity,
mysticism and mental illness