Resources

Trauma and therapy-related references

Baird, L.K. (2008). Childhood Trauma in the Etiology of Borderline Personality Disorder: Theoretical Considerations & Therapeutic Interventions. Hakomi Forum, issue 19-21, 2008. www.hakomiinstitute.org.

Barstow, C. (2002).  Right Use of Power:  The Heart of Ethics.  Boulder, CO: Many Realms.

Demasio, A.  (1994).  Descarte’s Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain.  New York:: Avon Books.

Herman, Judith L.  (1997).  Trauma and Recovery.  New York: Basic Books.

Levine, P.  (1997).  Waking the Tiger.  North Atlantic Books.

Maiberger, Barb (2009).  EMDR Essentials.  New York:  Norton and Company.

Ogden, P., Minton, K., and Pain, C. (2006). Trauma and the Body:  A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy.  New York:  Norton and Company.

Perry, B.D., Pollard, R.A., Blakley, T.L., Baker, W.L., and Vigilante, D. (1995a).  Childhood Trauma, the Neurobiology of Adaptation, and “User-Dependent” Development of the Brain:  How “States” Become “Traits”.  Infant Mental Health Journal, 16(4) 271-291.

Perry, B.D. (1995b).  Incubated in Terror:  Neurodevelopmental Factors in the Cycle of Violence, in Children, Youth and Violence:  Searching for Solutions.  Osofsky, J. (Ed), New York:  Guilford Press.

Porges, S.W. (2001).  The Polyvagal theory:  Phylogenic substrates of a social nervous system.  International Journal of Psychophysiology, 42 (2), 123-146.

Scaer, R.C. (2001). The Body Bears the Burden:  Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease.  New York: Hawthorne Medical Press.

Scaer, R. (2005).  The Trauma Spectrum:  Hidden Wounds and Human Resiliency.  New York: Norton and Company.

Schore, A.N. (1994).   Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self:  the Neurobiology of Emotional Development.  Hillsdale, New Jersey:  Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.

Schwartz, Richard C. (2001).   Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model.  Oak Park, Illinois:  Trailheads Publications.

Siegal, D.J. (1999) The Developing Mind.  New York: Guilford Press.

Siegel, D.J. (2007).  The Mindful Brain.  New York:  Norton and Company.

Van der Kolk, B.A. (1987).  Psychological Trauma. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press.

Van der Kolk, B.A. (1989).  The Compulsion to repeat the trauma:  re-enactment, revictimizaiton, and masochism.  Psychiatric Clinics of North America 12(2): 389-411

Yoga-related and other references

Brooks, Douglas R. (2008).  Poised for Grace:  the Bhagavad Gita from a Tantric Perspective (available through www.anusara.com and www.rajanaka.com)

Iyengar, BKS.  Light on Life.  This is one of my favorite yoga-related books, written by one of the world’s foremost masters.

Iyengar, BKS.  Light on Yoga,  Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and Light on Pranayama.

Keller, Doug.  The Heart of the Yogi, and Yoga as Therapy, volumes 1 and 2.  Excellent and accessable books for an understandable overview of yogic philosophy, and an exploration of physiology, anatomy, and yoga as a therapeutic tool.

Swami Durgananda (Sally Kempton) (2002).  The Heart of Meditation.

Swami Shantananda.  The Splendor of Recognition:  An exploration of the Pratyabhijna-hrdayam.  This is a wonderful translation and exploration of one of Kashmir Shaivism’s foundational texts.