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Note: All of these books, articles and videos provide scientific support for the Refined Hakomi Method. More than that, some of them are extremely moving and inspiring. All of them — with the possible exception of my own book — are the products of exceptional minds.

Bargh, J. Chartrand,  T., The Unbearable Automaticity of Being, available on the web at:

http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/trivia/Bargh.pdf

Damasio, Antonio. (2003). Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. New York: Harcourt.
Frith, Chris (2007) Making Up The Mind, How the Brain Creates our Mental World Wiley.
ISBN-10: 1405160225,  ISBN-13: 978-1405160223
Gawande, Atul (June 30, 2008) The Itch, in The New Yorker Magazine.
Gigenrenzer, Gerd (2007) Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious. Viking,. Pg. 111
Gerhardt, Sue  (2004). Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain, New York: Brunner-Routledge.
Gladwell, Malcolm (2005) Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. New York: Little Brown
Gladwell, Malcolm (2008) Outliers: The Story of Success New York:  Little, Brown and Company. ISBN-10: 0316017922, ISBN-13: 978-0316017923
Hawkins, Jeff (2004) On Intelligence New York: Holt Paperbacks.
Hawkins, Jeff  Can a New Theory of the Neocortex Lead to Truly Intelligent Machines found at: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/316 and How Brain Science Will Change Computing found at: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_hawkins_on_how_brain_science_will_change_computing.html
Kurtz, Ron (1991) Body-Centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi Method: The Integrated Use of Mindfulness, Nonviolence and the Body. Mendocino, CA: LifeRhythm. ISBN-10: 0940795183, ISBN-13: 978-0940795181
Lewis, Thomas (Author), Amini, Fari (Author), Lannon, Richard(Author), (2001). A General Theory of Love. New York: Vintage Books.
Porges, Stephen (2004) Neuroception: A Subconscious System for Detecting Threats and Safety. Zero to Three
Ramachandran, V. S., Blakeslee, Sandra. 1999. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind. New York: Harper Perennial.
Ramachandran, V. S. Rieth Lectures: The Emerging Mind, Lecture 2: Synapses and the Self.  Found at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/reith2003_lecture2.shtml
Perry, Bruce D., Szalavitz, Maia (January 8 2007) The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing. Basic Books; 1 edition
Pinker, Stephen (2003) The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Penguin Books. ISBN 0-939266-24-5
Senge, P. Scharmer, C. O., Jaworski, J. and Flowers, B. S. (2005) Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society. New York, Currency ISBN-10: 038551624X, ISBN-13: 978-0385516242
Wilson, Timothy D. (2004). Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, Harvard University Press.