I am talking about the insights of the Human Givens approach for understanding depression. Human Givens is UK based and dates only from the late 1990s. Yet in that time, it has received recognition in the NHS and there is respectable peer-reviewed evidence of success. Human Givens practitioners (of which I am one) help with depression more effectively that medication or CBT.
Human Givens is much more than yet another model of counselling and purports to be no less than a new bio-psycho-social model of being human. I personally believe that these exalted claims are justified.
For many readers, the idea that to understand depression can be easy will be preposterous. After all, depression is generally held in great awe, where explanations are medicalised in some way. To understand depression is never saying much more than is impenetrable jargon. But it need not be like that.
This article will explain the central role of excess dreaming to the understanding of depression with human givens. And how depression is fed and sustained.
And then how depression can best be treated.