There are well over 400 therapies on offer worldwide, with the practitioners of each heavily invested in the principles of their particular approach and often isolated from those whose practice is different.

This far-reaching monograph offers a new organising idea to help both the caring community and the interested public cut through the chaos caused by so many different models. It enables psychotherapy and counselling to move forward from an agreed basis of what it means to be a healthy human being, using what really works to help us when things go wrong.

Among other topics it describes with great lucidity our natural inheritance of instinctive behaviour, explores mind/body functioning, explains why people have problems and shows why some therapy approaches work and others don’t.

An essential document for anyone interested in psychology, human behaviour and the future of psychotherapy in all its forms.

(Please note the contents of this monograph are also covered in the book: Human Givens: a new approach to emotional health and clear thinking.)