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Current Reading:

Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence, Dale Peterson & Richard Wrangham

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation, Daniel J. Siegel

The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice, Eds. Diana Fosha, Daniel J. Siegel, Marion F. Solomon

How We Decide Lehrer, Jonah (2009) , New York: Mariner Books. “How We Decide” a separte file below.

Relevant Books & Papers

A Few Key Books

In my estimation, a dozen of the best of the more recent books right now are:

• No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality by Judith Rich Harris
• A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Armini and Richard Landon
• Presence by Peter Senge, et al
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Stephen Pinker
• Looking for Spinoza by Antonio Damasio
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain by Sue Gerhardt
• Phantoms in the Brain by V. S. Ramachandran
• The Developing Mind by Daniel Siegel
• i of the vortex by Rodolpho Llinás
• Destructive Emotions by His Holiness the Dali Lama and Daniel Goleman
• The Mind and the Brain by Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley
• The Symptom Path to Enlightenment by Ernest Rossi
• Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory by Joanna Macy
• Making Up The Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World by Chris Frith
• On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
• Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigenrenzer

The Whole List:

American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Anosognosia, can be found at: http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/patrick.haggard/c567/c5678.html

Baars, Bernard J.  and Katherine McGovern (revised November 5, 1997) Global Workspace: A Theory of Consciousness in http://www.phil.vt.edu/ASSC/watt/default.html, 2001

Baars, Bernard J. A cognitive theory of consciousness. Cambridge University Press, New York

Baddeley, A. Working memory and conscious awareness. In A..F. Colllins & M.A. Conway (Eds.), Theories of memory. Hove, UK: Erlbaum

Bioneers Conference http://www.bioneers.org/newsletter/volvl_no1/simons.html

Blakeslee, Sandra, Brain-Updating Machinery May Explain False Memories. by. New York Times September 19, 2000

Bohm, David, On Dialog. edited by Lee Nichol, 1996, Routledge.

Calvin, William H. How Brains Think 1996, Basic Books

Cambridge Dictionary of American English

Cassidy, J. and P.R Shaver, Eds. Handbook of Attachment (1999),.., New York, The Guinford Press

Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001; at Bartleby.com

Creeley, Robert 1992 The Warning from The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 University of California Press, www.ucpress.edu.

Damasio, Antonio R. Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

Damasio, Antonio R. The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

Daniel Siegel, The Developing Mind.

Darwin, Charles, Origin of Species.

Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.

Edelman, Gerald. Bright Air, Brilliant Fire.

Encarta® World English Dictionary © 1999 Microsoft Corporation

Feynman, Richard, Six Easy Pieces.

Frost, Robert, Fire and Ice

Gendlin, Eugene. T. (1996). Focusing-oriented psychotherapy. A manual of the experiential method. New York : Guilford.

Gigenrenzer, Gerd (2007) Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious. Viking

Gilbert and Sullivan, Iolanthe

Goleman, Daniel, Tibetan and Western Models of Mental Health, in MindScience—An East-West Dialogue, 1991, Wisdom Publications, Boston.

Goodwin, Brian, How the Leopard Changed Its Spots

Grossinger, Richard, Planet Medicine, North Atlantic Books

Hafiz, The Gift, translated by Daniel Ladinsky.

Harris, Judith Rich, No Two Alike

Harris, Sam, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason

Hawkins, Jeff (2004) On Intelligence New York: Holt Paperbacks.

Hesman Saey, Tina (May 9th, 2008) Science News Vol.173 #17. Can be found at: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/31949/title/Epic_Genetics

Herbert, Martha, Incomplete Science, The Body, and Indwelling Spirit. available at: http://www.metanexus.net/metanexus_online/show_article.asp?2636

Holland, John, Complexity

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/diabetes/faq/part2/section-13.html

http://www.livingneighborhoods.org/unfoldings/thewhole.htm

Janet, Pierre, Principles of Psychotherapy, 1904

Johnson, Steven. Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Kelley, Kevin, Out of Control

Kurtz, Ron, Body-Centered Psychotherapy Mendocino, CA, LifeRhythm, 1990.

Kurtz, Ron, Mindfulness-based, Assisted Self-study, in Update Handbook on the Refined Method, March 20, 2007.

Langton, Chritopher G. Life at the Edge of Chaos, in Artificial Life II, A Proceedings Volume in the Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Science of Complexity.

Leifer, Ron, The Happiness Project

Lewis, Thomas, A General Theory of Love by Fari Amini, Richard Lannon, pg 26

Llinás, Rodolfo R. i of the vortex: from Neuron to Self

Macy, Joanna (1991) Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Pg. 100Mahoney, Michael Human Change Processes,

Nisbett, Richard, The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently… and Why.

NY Times, Feb. 4, 2003, Finding Happiness: The Affects of Daily Meditation on Health and Well-being,

Nyanaponika, The Power of Mindfulness Santa Cruz: Kandy 1972

Oliver, Mary, The Poet with His Face in His Hands in New and Selected Poems: Volume 1

Oxford Paperback Dictionary and Thesaurus

Panksepp, Jaak, Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions

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

Porges, Stephen, Neuroception: A Subconscious System for Detecting Threats and Safety, http://bbc.psych.uic.edu/pdf/Neuroception.pdf

Porges, Steven, The Social Engagement System

Ramachandran, V. S. Phantoms in the Brain

Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines. (pg. 104)

Reich, Wilhelm, Character Analysis New York: Noonday Press, 1949.

Rossi, Ernst The Symptom Path to Enlightenment

Ruelle, David, Chance and Chaos, Princeton University Press, 1991

Shlain, Leonard, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality

Schore, A. (1994) Affect Regulation and the Self: The Neurobiology of Affective Development. Schwartz, Jeffrey M. and Sharon Begley, The Mind and the Brain.

Segal, Nancy L. Entwined Lives

Senge, Peter, Scharmer, J. Jaworski, and B. S. Flowers, Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

Siegel, Daniel, The Developing Mind, New York: The Guilford Press, 1999. pages 28-34.

Sterling, Peter, Principles of allostasis: optimal design, predictive regulation, pathophysiology and rational therapeutics. Available at: http://retina.anatomy.upenn.edu/allostasis/allostasis.html

Thurman, Robert, Inner Revolution

Tibetan and Western Models of Mental Health, MindScience – An East-West Dialogue, 1991, Wisdom Publications, Boston.

Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina.

Waldstein, S.R. & Elias, M.F. (Eds). (2001). Neuropsychology of cardiovascular disease. http://www.psychosomatic.org/

Watt, Douglas F. Emotions and Consciousness, www.phil.vt.edu/ASSC/watt/default.html

Welwood, John, Awakening the Heart

Wolinsky, Steven Trances People Live.

Here are a few more in a categorized list:

(1) For the scientifically minded:

Affective Neuroscience by Jaak Panksepp

Affect Regulation by Allan Schore

At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman

Body and Mature Behavior by Feldenkrais

Complexity by M. Mitchel Waldrop

Conscious Acts of Creation by William Tiller

Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

Evolving Brains by John Allman

How Brains Think by William H. Calvin

Nature VIA Nurture by Matt Ridley

On Human Nature by Edward Wilson

Science and Human Transformation by Tiller

Sex, Ecology, Spirituality by Ken Wilbur

Sex, Time and Power by Leonard Shlain

The Chemistry of Conscious States by Allan Hobson

The Tree of Knowledge by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela

The Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel

The Search for Meaning edited by Paavo Pylkkänen

Traumatic Stress edited by van der Kolk, et al

(2) For the spiritually minded:

Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephan Batchelor

Clear Mind, Open Heart by Prema Chodren

Inner Revolution by Robert Thurman

Sex, Ecology, Spirituality by Ken Wilbur

Tao Te Ching translated by Victor Mair

The Embodied Mind by Francisco Varela, et al

The Feeling Buddha by Daniel Brazier

The Happiness Project by Ron Leifer

The Science of Yoga by I.K. Taimne

Thoughts Without a Thinker by Mark Epstien

(3) For the therapeutically minded:

Body-Centered Psychotherapy by Ron Kurtz

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

Turbulent Mirror by Briggs and Peat

Couples Psychotherapy by Rob Fisher

Grace Unfolding by Greg Johanson

Healing the Split by John E. Nelson

The Happiness Project by Ron Leifer

The Potent Self by Moshe Feldenkrais

Trances People Live by Steven Wolinsky