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AOS Textbooks and Reading Assignments

AOS Books
  1. Sharf, R. (2016). Theories of Psychotherapy and Counseling: Concepts and Cases (6th Edition), Cengage Learning (also available as ebook).
  2. Peterson, C. (2006). A Primer in Positive Psychology. Oxford University Press (also available as ebook).
  3. Aposhyan, S. (2004). Body-Mind Psychotherapy: Principles, Techniques, and Practical Applications. W.W. Norton & Company.
  4. Marks-Tarlow, T. Solomon, M. Seigel, D.J. (2017). Play and Creativity in Psychotherapy: Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. W.W. Norton & Company.
  5. Mehl-Madrona, L. (2007). Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process. Inner Traditions/Bear.
  6. Ventura, E. (Ed.) (2017). Casebook for DSM-5: Diagnosis and Treatment Planning. Springer Publishing Company.
  7. Friedman, H. and Hartelius, G. (2013). The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology (also available in online format).
  8. Optional: Aizenstat, S. and Bosnak, R. (Eds.) (2009). Imagination and Medicine: The Future of Healing in an Age of Neuroscience. Spring Journal.

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Journal Articles – Free PDF Downloads

  1. Marks-Tarlow, T. (2014). The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Clinical Intuition. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 84, 219-234.
  2. Siegel, D. J. (2001). Toward an interpersonal neurobiology of the developing mind: Attachment relationships,“mindsight,” and neural integration. Infant Mental Health Journal: Official Publication of The World Association for Infant Mental Health, 22(1‐2), 67-94.
  3. Canino, G. and Alegrio, M. (2008). Psychiatric diagnosis: Is it universal or relative to culture?. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49(3): 237-250. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01854.x
  4. Conn, S. A. (1998). Living in the earth: Ecopsychology, health and psychotherapy. The Humanistic Psychologist, 26(1-3), 179-198.
  5. Hartelius, G. (2016). Transpersonal is a Whole Person Psychology. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 35(2), iii–vi.
  6. Hartelius, G. (2019). Science and a whole person psychology: Can participatory empiricism ease the way forward?. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 38(1), iii–xv.
  7. Kunisue, Y., & Schavrien, J. (2011). Yamato Kotoba: The Language of the Flesh. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 30(1), 165–170.
  8. Hartelius, G. (2014). The Imperative for Diversity in a Transpersonal Psychology of the Whole Person. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 33(2), iii–iv.
  9. MacDonald, D. A., Friedman, H. L., Brewczynski, J., Holland, D., Salagame, K. K. K., Mohan, K. K., Gubrij, Z. O., & Cheong, H. W. (2015). Spirituality as a Scientific Construct: Testing its Universality Across Cultures and Languages. PLoS One, 10(3), Article e0117701
  10. Myers, S. (2003). Relational Healing: To Be Understood and to Understand. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 43(1), 86–104.
  11. Whitford, H. S., Oliver, I. N., & Peterson, M. J. (2008). Spirituality as a core domain in the assessment of quality of life in oncology. Psycho‐Oncology: Journal of the Psychological, Social and Behavioral Dimensions of Cancer, 17(11), 1121–1128.
  12. Marks-Tarlow, T. (2011), Merging and Emerging: A Nonlinear Portrait of Intersubjectivity During Psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 21 (1), 110-127.
  13. Kalsched, D. (Date). Trauma, Innocence and the Core Complex of Dissociation. Journal of Analytical Psychology Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 474-500.
  14. Schneider, K. (2011). Awakening to an Awe-Based Psychology. The Humanistic Psychologist, Vol 39(3), Jul-Sep 2011, 247-252.
ALL 14 Journal Articles (PDF, 236 Pages)