Reading list
The following titles comprise the reading list for the Human Givens Diploma. Please read and thoroughly absorb the essential reading titles before commencing Part 2 of this course, and ideally as many of the additional reading publications as possible. (Many of the following titles are available direct from HG Publishing, simply click the 'Order Online' link, or call their office on (01323) 811662 to order.)
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Human Givens: A new approach to emotional health and clear thinking
by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell, Human Givens Publishing Ltd. (2004).
Paperback £14.99 (ISBN: 1-899398-317) Order online
Dreaming Reality: How dreaming keeps us sane or can drive us mad
by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell, Human Givens Publishing Ltd. (2006).
Paperback £9.99 (ISBN: 1-899398-910) Order Online
How to lift depression... fast by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell, Human Givens Publishing Ltd. (2004). Paperback £9.99 (ISBN: 1-899398-414) Order Online
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Bantam Books (2005).
Paperback £8.99 (ISBN: 0-553383-71X) Order Online
In Search of Solutions: a new direction in psychotherapy
by W H O'Hanlon, M Weiner-Davis, WW Norton & Co. (2003). Paperback £14.99 (ISBN: 0-393704-378) Order Online
A User's Guide to the Brain by John Ratey, Abacus (2003). Paperback £9.99 (ISBN: 0-349112-967)
Social Intelligence: The new science of human relationships
by Daniel Goleman, Arrow Books Ltd (2007). Paperback £10.99
(ISBN: 978-0099464921)
Doctoring the Mind: why psychiatric treatments fail by Richard Bentall, Allen Lane (2009) Hardback ISBN: 978-0713998894. Paperback (June 2010)
ISBN: 978-0141023694.
Freedom from addiction: The secret behind successful addiction busting
by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell, Human Givens Publishing Ltd. (2005).
Paperback £9.99 (ISBN: 1-899398-465) Order Online
The Optimistic Child by M Seligman, Houghton, Random House (1996). Paperback £14.95 (ISBN: 0-060977-094) Order Online
Loneliness: Human nature and the need for social connection
by John T. Cacioppo and William Patrick, W W Norton (2009).
Paperback £12.99 (ISBN: 978-0393335286)
How to Master Anxiety: All you need to know to overcome stress, panic attacks, phobias, trauma obsessions and more
by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell, Human Givens Publishing Ltd. (2006).
Paperback £9.99 (ISBN: 1-899398-813) Order Online
The Observing Self by Arthur J Deikman, Beacon Press (1992).
Paperback £13.99 (ISBN: 0-807029-513) Order Online
My Voice will go with You: the teaching tales of Milton Erickson
Edited and with a commentary by Sidney Rosen, Norton (1991).
Paperback £9.95 (ISBN: 0-393301-354) Order Online
Release from Anger: Practical help for controlling unreasonable rage
by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell, Human Givens Publishing Ltd. (2008).
Paperback £9.99 (ISBN: 978-1-899398-07-2) Order Online
Opening Skinner's Box:
Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Lauren Slater, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. (2005). Paperback £8.99.
ISBN 978-0747563174
Why Gender Matters: What parents and teachers need to know about the emerging science of sex differences by Leonard Sax, Broadway Brooks. (2005) Paperback £7.05 (ISBN 0-767916-255) Doubleday Books. Hardcover £13.08 (ISBN 0-385510-73X).
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REQUIRED COURSE LISTENING:
CD: Effective Anxiety Management – without drugs HG Publishing, Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell. Price £9.95 (ISBN 1-899398-66X ) Order Online
CD: Effective Anger Management: understanding and controlling unreasonable expressions of anger in yourself and other people HG Publishing, Joe Griffin
and Ivan Tyrrell. Price £9.95 (ISBN 1-899398-716) Order Online
CD: Evolution and the human givens... hope for the future HG Publishing,
Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell. Price £9.95 (ISBN 1-899398-767) Order Online
CD: The Therapeutic Power of Guided Imagery HG Publishing, Joe Griffin
and Ivan Tyrrell. Price £9.95 (ISBN 1-899398-562) Order Online
CD: Understanding and lifting depression without drugs... HG Publishing,
Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell. Price £9.95 (ISBN 1-899398-21X ) Order Online
DOUBLE CD: How stories heal - the effect of stories on mental health and human development
HG Publishing, Pat Williams. Price £14.95
(ISBN 1-899398-864 ) Order Online
CD: Demystifying Autism and Asperger's syndrome: Help for parents, carers, teachers and others interested in autistic spectrum disorder
HG Publishing, Angela Austin and Ivan Tyrrell. Price £9.95
(ISBN 978-1-899398-126 ) Order Online
RECOMMENDED ADDITIONAL READING:
How to liberate yourself from pain: practical help for sufferers
by Dr. Grahame Brown, HG Publishing (2009). Paperback £9.99
(ISBN: 978-1-899398-17-1) Order Online
Anger: the misunderstood emotion by Carol Tavris. Touchstone, Simon & Schuster (1989, revised edition). Paperback £6.61 (ISBN: 0-671675-230)
Mad in America: Bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill by Robert Whitaker, Perseus Books (2003). Paperback £12.99 (ISBN: 0-738207-993).
The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine. Bantam Books (2008). Paperback £8.99 (ISBN: 978-0553818499)
Taking Sex Differences Seriously by Steven R. Rhoads. Encounter Books USA (2004). Hardback £16.99 (ISBN: 978-1893554931).
FURTHER TITLES OF INTEREST:
Taproots by W H O'Hanlon, W W Norton & Co., New York & London (1987). Paperback £16.00 (ISBN: 0-393700-313)
Prozac Backlash by Joseph Glenmullenn, Simon & Schuster (2001). Paperback £10.00 (ISBN: 0-743200-624)
The Seminars, Workshops and Lectures of Milton H Erickson,
Volumes 1, 2, 3 & 4 edited by E L Rossi, M O'Ryan, F A Sarp. Fress Association Press, London (1993-98). Paperback, £17.00 per volume.
Order online
The Sickening Mind: brain, behaviour, immunity & disease
by Paul Martin, Flamingo (1998). Paperback £10.99 (ISBN: 0-006550-223)
Order Online
You just don't understand by Deborah Tannen, Virago (1990).
Paperback £7.99 (ISBN 1-853814-717) Order Online
Introducing Mind and Brain by Angus Gellatly and Oscar Zarate. Icon Books (2007). Paperback £6.99 (ISBN: 1-840468-548).
CD: Which You Are You? Our many minds and how to manage them
HG Publishing, Pat Williams. Price £9.95 (ISBN 978-1-899398-034 )
Order Online
Why Marriages Succeed or Fail by John Gottman. Bloomsbury (1997).
Paperback £7.99 (ISBN: 0-747593-604)
The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris, Bloomsbury, London (1998). Paperback £9.99 (ISBN: 07475 399X)
Why Freud was wrong: sin, science and psychoanalysis by Richard Webster, The Orwell Press (2005). Paperback £16.95 (ISBN 0-951592-254)
The Jung Cult by Richard Noll, Prentice Hall & IBD (1997). Paperback £14.00 (ISBN 0-684834-235)
The Right Mind: Making sense of the hemispheres by Robert Ornstein, Harcourt Brace, New York & London (1998). ISBN 0-156006-278
The Welfare State We're In by James Bartholomew. Politico's Publishing Ltd. (2006). Paperback £12.99 (ISBN 1-842751-611)