General Resources for Mind/Body medicine, PTSD,
Psychoneuroimmunology,Trauma as Shamanic Initiation, and
related conditioning; updated 1-30-96
- Academy for Guided Imagery
- P.O. Box 2070, Mill Valley,
CA 94942; (800)726-2070
- Teaches health professionals to use guided imagery; also
offers a catalog of books and tapes
- Achterberg, Jeanne
- Imagery in Healing: Shamanism and Modern
Medicine. Boston, Shambala, 1985
- Ader, Robert, editor
- Psychoneuroimmunology. Academic Press,
New York, 1981.
- "The Placebo Effect as a Conditioned Response." In
Experimental Foundations of Behavioral Medicine:
Conditioning Approaches, edited by Robert Ader, Herbert
Weiner, and Andrew Baum. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, N.J., 1988
- Advances: The Journal of Mind-Body Health.
- The Fetzer Institute, 9292 West KL Ave., Kalamazoo, MI
49009; (616) 375-2000. Quarterly Journal on developments
in mind/body medicine.
- Barber, Theodore X.
- "Changing ‘Unchangeable’ Bodily Processes by (Hypnotic)
Suggestions: A New Look at Hypnosis Cognitions, Imagining, and
the Mind-Body Problem." In Imagination and Healing,
edited by Anees A. Sheikh, Baywood Publishing Co., N.Y., 1984
- "Physiologic Effects of ‘Hypnotic Suggestions’: a Critical
Review of Recent Research (1960-64)." Psychological
Bulletin, 63(1965): 201-222
- Becker, Robert O.
- The Body Electric- Electromagnetism and the Foundation of
Life. (New York: William Morrow, (1985)
- Benson, Herbert.
- The Relaxation Response. William Morrow, New
York, 1975
- "Body Temperature Changes During the Practice of gTummo
(heat) Yoga." Nature, June 23, 1982 (vol. 295)
- Beyond the Relaxation Response. Times Books, New
York, 1984
- Your Maximum Mind, Random House, New York, 1987
- Berry, Carmen Renee M.S.W., M.A.
- Your Body Never Lies. Pagemill Press, 2716 Ninth
St. Berkeley, CA 94710, 1993. ISBN 1-879290-03-0. Certified
Body Worker and Social Worker, lives in Pasadena CA. May be
reached thru agent at 818-797-9882 Great Book!
- Borysenko, Joan.
- Minding the Body, Mending the Mind. New York, Bantam, 1988
- "The Immune System: An Overview." Annals of Behavioral
Medicine,9(1987):3-10
- Brain, Behavior and Immunity.
- Edited by Robert Ader with Nicholas Cohen and David
Felten. Published by Academic Press. Journal covers research
in the field of psychoneuroimmunology.
- Braude, Stephen E.
- First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the
Philosophy of Mind. Routledge Press, 1991
- Breggin, Peter R., M.D.
- Toxic Psychiatry- A Psychiatrist Speaks Out. Why
Therapy, Empathy, and Love Must Replace the Drugs,
Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the "New
Psychiatry". St. Martin's Press, N.Y. ISBN 0-312-05975-2
- Catherall, Don R. Ph.D.
- Back From the Brink: A Family Guide to Overcoming
Traumatic Stress. Bantam Books, New York, 1992. ISBN
0-553-08977-3 Exploration of PTSD incl. symptoms, and
treatment. Excellent self-help book! Unfortunately out of
print.
- Colligan, Douglas.
- The Healer Within: The New Medicine of Mind and
Body. NAL-Dutton, New York 1987. Overview of psychoneuroimmunology.
- Connors, Patrick.
- Embodying Healing: Integrating Bodywork and
Psychotherapy in Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse. The
Safer Society Press, VT 1992
- Dienstfrey, Harris.
- Where the Mind Meets The Body: Type A, The Relaxation
Response, Psychoneuroimmunology, Biofeedback, Neuropeptides,
Hypnosis, Imagery- and the Search for the Mind’s Effects on
Physical Health. Harper Collins 1991. ISBN 0-06-016570-7.
Profiles seven researchers who have investigated key areas of
mind/body medicine.
- Eliade, Mercea
- Rites and Symbols of Initiation; The Mysteries of Birth
and Rebirth, Harper Torchbooks, 1975. ISBN
0-06-131236-3. Classic study of ordeal and regeneration.
- Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy.
Princeton / Bollingen Foundation, 1964. ISBN 0-691-01779-4.
Another classic on technique and history.
- Ferguson, Marilyn.
- The Brain Revolution. (New York: Taplinger, 1973,
90, isbn 0-8008-0961-0, Vail-Ballou Press) The frontiers of
mind research
- Halifax, Joan.
- Shaman- The Wounded Healer. Thames and Hudson,
N.Y., 1991 ISBN 0-500-81029-X. An account of those who are
"doomed to inspiration". From the Art and Imagination series.
- The Fruitful Darkness- Reconnecting with the Body of
the Earth. HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. ISBN
0-06-250313-8. Hope renewed and love restored: a journey of
suffering and compassion.
- Herman, Judith PhD.
- Trauma and Recovery, The aftermath of violence- from
domestic abuse to political terror. HarperCollins
BasicBooks, 1992. ISBN 0-465-08765-5. Also Victims of Violence
Program, The Cambridge Hospital, 1493 Cambridge St.,Cambridge,
MA 02139 (617) 498-1284
- Kalweit, Holger
- Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men Shambala, 1992. ISBN 0-87773-659-6. Excellent book on the psychological aspects of shamanism, especially the role of trauma in 'inducing' shamanism. Also covers many accounts of paranormal activites associated with shamans; most reported during the early days of ethnology from the turn of the century through the 50's. RECOMMENDED!
- Kiecolt-Glaser, J.K., and Glaser, R.
- "Psychoneuroimmunology: Can Psychological Interventions
Modulate Immunity?" Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology, 60(1992):569-75
- "Stress and the Immune System: Human Studies." in Tasman,
A. and Riba, M.B. (eds.) Annual Review of Psychiatry,
11 (1991):169-180. (Washington DC.: American Psychiatric Press)
- Koblenzer, C.S.
- Psychocutaneous Disease. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co., 1987
- Lew, Mike.
- Victims No Longer: Men Recovering From Incest and Other
Sexual Child Abuse. Harper & Row, New York 1986
- Locke, Steven E., and Douglas Colligan.
- The Healer Within: The New Medicine of Mind and
Body. NAL-Dutton, New York 1987. Overview of psychoneuroimmunology
- Miller, Neal E.
- "Integration of Neurophysical and Behavioral Research."
Annals of New York Academy of Sciences, 1961.
- "Learning of Visceral and Glandular Responses"
Science, January 31, 1969 (vol. 163).
- "Visceral Learning: Recent Difficulties with Curarized Rats
and Significant Problems for Human Research." In Biofeedback
and Self-Control, 1974, edited by Leo V. DiCara, Chicago, 1975.
- Mind Body Medicine- How to Use Your Mind for Better
Health.
- Edited by Daniel Goleman, Ph.D. and Joel Gurin;
Consumer Reports Books, 101 Truman Ave., Yonkers N.Y. 10703.
ISBN 0-89043-840-4 Good overview...
- MindBody Health Sciences
- 22 Lawson Terrace, Scituate, MA 02066; (617) 545-7122:
Books and tapes for medical and mental health applications
- Mindell, Arnold.
- The Shaman’s Body: A New Shamanism for Transforming
Health, Relationships, and the Community. HarperCollins
SanFrancisco 1993. ISBN 0-06-250655-2. Finding the power to
make choices and control our own lives.
- Mrazek, D.A. and Klinnert, M.
- "Asthma: Psychoneuroimmunologic Considerations." In
Psychoneuroimmunology, (2nd ed.) Orlando, FL. edited
by Robert Ader with Nicholas Cohen and David Felten. Academic
Press, 1990, pp. 1013-1035.
- Ofshe, Richard and Waters, Ethan.
- Making Monsters False Memories, Psychotherapy,
and Sexual Hysteria. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. ISBN
0-684-19698-0. Interesting book from the other side of the
issues.
- Ornstein, Robert, and David Sobel.
- The Healing Brain. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1988.
Key findings in mind/body medicine.
- Parkinson, Frank.
- Post-Trauma Stress: A personal guide to reduce the
long-term effects and hidden emotional damage caused by
violence and disaster. Fisher Books, Tucson, AZ 1993.
ISBN1-55561-058-7. Personal guide to dealing with and
recovering from post-trauma stress.
- Pert, Candace B.
- "Neuropeptides and Their Receptors: a Psychosomatic
Network." Journal of Immunology, August 1985 (vol.
135, no. 2).
- "The Wisdom of the Receptors." Advances, Summer
1986 (vol. 3, no. 3). A slightly edited version appeared in
Noetic Sciences Review, Spring 1987. Institute of
Noetic Sciences, 475 Gate Road, Sausalito, CA 94965
- Spiegel, H., and Spiegel, D.
- Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis.
Washington DC.: American Psychiatric Press, 1987
- Timms, Robert and Patrick Connors.
- Embodying Healing: Integrating Bodywork and
Psychotherapy in Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse. The
Safer Society Press, VT 1992
- Walsh, Roger N. M.D., Ph.D.
- "The Consciousness Disciplines and the Behavioral Sciences:
Questions of Comparison and Assessment", American Journal of
Psychiatry,137(1980): 663-73
- The Spirit of Shamanism, G.P.Putnam's Sons, N.Y.
1990. ISBN 0-87477-626-0. How some Shamanic practices
foreshadow contemporary medical and psychological techniques.
- Wilson, Sheryl C., and Theodore X. Barber.
- "The Fantasy-Prone Personality: Implications for
Understanding Imagery, Hypnosis, and Parapsychological
Phenomena." In Imagery: Current Theory, Research and
Application, edited by Anees A. Sheikh. John Wiley, N.Y.
1983
- Yapko, Michael D. Ph.D.
- Suggestions of Abuse- True and False Memories of Childhood
Sexual Abuse. Simon & Schuster, 1994. ISBN 0-671-87431-4