Joe Griffin is a social psychologist with graduate and post-graduate degrees from the LSE. His extensive research has increased our knowledge and understanding and has brought us the first comprehensive, scientifically consistent theory of why we involved to dream. He is also co-author with Ivan Tyrrell of 'Human Givens: The new approach to emotional health and clear thinking and other subsequent titles in the Essential Health in Troubled Times series including 'Godhead: The brain's big bang' about the explosive origin of creativity, mysticism and mental illness. Both Joe and Ivan teach out of Human Givens College, which runs courses on how to apply psychological knowledge effectively in education, psychotherapy, managing public and private organisations and other social fields.

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Why we dream: the definitive answer shows that dreaming is vital for mental health and that the brain state we associate with dreaming (the REM state) also has crucial importance when we are awake. Full of real life stories, dream examples and case histories, it gives readers the key to understanding their own remembered dreams.