Psychosynthesis-related Books (By category and in alphabetical order by author)
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Categories Subpersonalities Imagery & Healing Psychotherapy Intuition Relationships Religion Nature Miscellaneous
Subpersonalities
	Peter Arthur Baldwin (1997) Four and Twenty Blackbirds: Personae Theory and the Understanding of Our Multiple Selves	Embodying and embracing one's many conscious and non-conscious selves is no easy task yet enormously important if one is to be fully human. With wit sagacity metaphor and personal example Peter Baldwin shows us the way. Dr. Baldwin also provides us with a vast array of therapeutic techniques that can be used to facilitate the discovery of ourselves and aid in their integration.
	Ruth Cherry, PhD (1990) Good People: The Whole Self Integration Guide	"This workbook provides the reader with the tools to understand the workings of her inner world–that shadowy realm that doesn't operate rationally or predictably. By introducing the concept of subpersonalities the reader can identify the different pulls within herself, learn to know them, and help them grow and mature."
	Verlaine Crawford (1994) Ending the Battle Within: How to Create a Harmonious Life Working with Your Sub-Personalities	"How can you satisfy the different parts of you who seem to have opposing goals? Is it possible to peacefully solve the many problems that challenge you? Can you become a conscious creator of your heart's desire? This book provides the means to discover what your many selves need and want. You can change fear into excitement and transform pain into dynamic action."
	Cheri Huber, June Shiver (1997) That Which You are Seeking is Causing You to Seek	"The teachings of Zen are presented to westerners in this book, which is comprised of many short sections accompanied by illustrations on subjects ranging from compassion and meditation to death. The concepts of 'subpersonalities' (the many aspects of the personality) and 'projection' (the notion that the entire world is a mirror of who we are) are introduced. Readers are encouraged to consider that they see the world the way they do not because the world is inherently that way, but because of who's looking. Seeing ourselves as having many different parts helps us make sense the whirling mass of contradictions we sometimes experience within ourselves."
	Robert Elias Najemy (2005) Saram: Adventures of a Soul & Insight into the Male Psyche	"A story which shows how our sub-personalities or personas are developed during our childhood and eventually create inner conflicts later in life. It also has to do with the male psyche and the conflict of being faithful or not. Also a guide for working with your own inner conflicts." Available as an e-book.
	John Rowan (1999) The Plural Self: Multiplicity in Everyday Life	Bringing together many disciplines, and with contributions from foremost writers on self-pluralism, The Plural Self overviews and critiques this emerging field. Drawing together theory, research and practice, the book expands on both the psychological and philosophical theories underlying and associated with self-pluralism, and presents empirical evidence in support of the self-pluralistic perspective, exploring its application within a clinical and therapeutic setting.
	John Rowan (1993) Discover Your Subpersonalities: Our Inner World and the People In It	Well-known psychologist and writer John Rowan shows how every individual is made up of a number of subpersonalities, some helpful, some not. However, in order to be in charge of our inner world it is essential that we examine and come to know it. Rowan has written Discover Your Subpersonalities specifically for this purpose. Lively and entertaining, with questions and simple exercises, this book will enable readers to get to know the personalities inside of them.
	John Rowan (1990) Subpersonalities: The People Inside Us	We all have had the experience of being divided, of being in two minds about something. Subpersonalities is the first book to do justice to the phenomena as a normal feature of our psychological life.
	Richard C. Schwartz (1995) Internal Family Systems Therapy	"Applying family systems concepts to the intrapsychic realm, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model proposes that individuals sub-personalities interact and change in many of the same ways as do families and other human groups. This valuable text and clinical resource illuminates how parts of a person can form paralyzing inner alliances resembling the destructive coalitions found in dysfunctional families, and provides straightforward guidelines for incorporating the IFS model into treatment."
	Hal and Sidra Stone (1998) Embracing Ourselves: The Voice Dialogue Manual	Drawing on years of clinical experience, the authors take readers on a remarkable journey of self-discovery. The "subpersonalities" that live with the self are explained, allowing readers to pursue their individual destinies.
Imagery & Healing
	Jeanne Achterberg (2002) Imagery in Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine	This book has become a classic in the field of alternative medicine and continues to be read by new generations of health care professionals and lay people. In Imagery in Healing, Achterberg explores in detail the role of the imagination in the healing process. .... Ultimately, Achterberg looks to the science of immunology to uncover the most effective ground for visualization, and she presents data demonstrating how imagery can have a direct and profound impact on the workings of the immune system. Drawing on art, science, history, anthropology, and medicine, Imagery in Healing offers a highly readable overview of the profound and complex relationship between the imagination and the body.
	Alice Hopper Epstein (1989) Mind, Fantasy & Healing: One Woman's Journey from Conflict and Illness to Wholeness and Health	When Alice Hopper Epstein was diagnosed as having inoperable cancer, she was given three months to live. That was fourteen years ago. Mind, Fantasy and Healing is the remarkable story of her recovery and the long journey from hopelessness to wholeness. It describes in detail the procedures she used, psychological and spiritual, to defeat the cancer. Her story was featured on the Heart of Healing on TBS and on Good Medicine hosted by Walter Cronkite.
	Maureen Murdock (2002) Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with Children for Learning, Creativity, and Relaxation	The use of guided imagery has been internationally recognized as an effective method of "whole brain" learning. The author's approach will have special appeal to parents and teachers who are frustrated by an educational system that seems to reward only those children who excel at verbal, linear learning. With the exercises in this book, young people can discover learning styles that are effective and enjoyable for them. These techniques of guided imagery offer adults as well as children a unique way to tap the wealth of creativity and wisdom within.     This book presents simple exercises in guided imagery designed to help young people ages three through eighteen to relax into learning, focus attention and increase concentration, stimulate creativity, and cultivate inner peace and group harmony.
	Michael Samuels (2003) Healing with the Mind's Eye: How to Use Guided Imagery and Visions to Heal Body, Mind, and Spirit	This remarkable book, now in paperback for the first time, can help you tap your own inner strength to enhance healing. For nearly three decades, Dr. Michael Samuels has pioneered the use of guided imagery as a way to help people boost their immune systems – and feel stronger and more in control of their lives.   In Healing with the Mind's Eye, now revised and updated, Dr. Samuels offers you the same program of guided imagery exercises that he’s used successfully in patient workshops across the country. You’ll discover how to harness a variety of creative visionary techniques – reverie states, personal myths, helping figures, inner light, healing visions, healing imagery, and spiritual transformations – drawn from traditions around the world. As you progress through the exercises in the book, you’ll open yourself to healing and change – and embark on your own journey toward wellness.
	Michael Samuels & Mary Rockwood Lane (2000) Spirit Body Healing: Using Your Mind's Eye to Unlock the Medicine Within	A pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, Dr. Michael Samuels has joined forces with a major authority on creativity and healing, Mary Rockwood Lane, to explore the power of the spirit-mind-body connection. Based on a landmark seven-year university study, Spirit Body Healing is the first book on spiritual healing to emerge from a research study in a major university healthcare center. By showing us how to deepen the spiritual dimension in our daily lives while doing easy visualizations and meditations, Drs. Samuels and Lane teach us how to help heal physical, emotional, and spiritual illness. With Spirit Body Healing, we go to a place of healing, beauty, and grace where we get in touch with our own spirits and the higher power that has meaning for each of us. Filled with inspiring, beautifully written stories, Spirit Body Healing reveals the eight steps of spiritual healing.... Whatever your spiritual orientation, Spirit Body Healing offers practical, prescriptive methods that show us and our loved ones how to create immediate changes in our lives – now.
	Michael Samuels (1975) Seeing With The Mind's Eye The History, Techniques and Uses of Visualization	This book opens the mind's eye to the inner world – whether as memories, fantasies, dreams, or visions. Over 100 illustrations.
	Anees A. Sheikh (1984) Imagination and Healing	This book explores in depth the vast healing potential of a fundamental human gift. In addition to providing a historical perspective of the importance accorded to imagination in the disease and healing processes, the book furnishes theoretical, empirical, and clinical evidence of the efficacy of imagery in the healing of a wide variety of health problems including stress, pain, cancer, depression, phobias, skin disorders, and sexual dysfunctions. (Imagery and Human Development Series)
Psychotherapy
	Seymour Boorstein (1996) Transpersonal Psychotherapy (SUNY Series in the Philosophy of Psychology)	Since its original publication in 1980, this book has become a classic in transpersonal psychotherapy. In this new edition the articles present a spectrum of widely diverse perspectives – from precise behavioristic work with attention training, through creative clinical pharmacology and theory development, to innovative use of chakra energies. The result is a rich and provocative summary of the state of the art in transpersonal psychotherapy. The editor's focus is on the scientific healing/mysticism alliance, which dates back to the earliest shamans and in modern times has engaged William James, Carl Jung, Roberto Assagioli, and Abraham Maslow. In the book, some of the most respected pioneers in the field give their vision of the synergistic potential of these two powerful traditions. Transpersonal Psychotherapy describes a wide variety of uses of traditional and spiritual approaches for the alleviation of mental suffering and for spiritual development.
	Seymour Boorstein (1997) Clinical Studies in Transpersonal Psychotherapy (SUNY Series in the Philosophy of Psychology)	In this book, Seymour Boorstein builds upon his classical training as a psychiatrist to show the dramatic results of blending the traditional with the transpersonal approach to psychotherapy. By providing case studies from his own practice that cover the spectrum of traditional psychological categories, he demonstrates the vast possibilities and some of the pitfalls inherent in joining psychotherapy and spirituality and also gives the reader a glimpse into the psychiatrist's mental processes as he considers patients' dilemmas and seeks to help them find solutions. The specific techniques Boorstein describes serve as guideposts for other psychotherapists and clinicians, for laypeople interested in psychological healing, and for spiritual leaders and seekers. Boorstein's message to mental-health practitioners is clear: Transpersonal therapists should make use of the valuable traditional techniques that have proved useful, and traditional therapists should explore the enormous impact spiritual issues have on our lives.
	James Bugental (1992) The Art of the Psychotherapist How to develop the skills that take psychotherapy beyond science
	Kate Cohen-Posey (2008) Empowering Dialogues Within A Workbook for Helping Professionals and Their Clients	Immersed with wisdom, Empowering Dialogues Within is a unique client workbook filled with narratives, case vignettes, and exercises, providing mental health professionals with a broad-based toolkit to help clients become more self-aware. It is filled with instructive case examples and practical advice for building clients' confidence, wisdom, and sense of wellness and a foundation for lifelong strength and growth.
	Susan Doiron (2008) Personal Transformation in the Counselling Process The Integration of Psychosynthesis and Focusing Therapeutic Models	"When I began this thesis journey, I had made some assumptions up front centered around three central transformational questions that I assumed others were striving to discover about themselves. Two findings, in particular, are key to this thesis. One, is the integration of two therapeutic models: Psychosynthesis and Focusing and two, in the process of doing this work I have attempted to simplify the approach and implementation of these models as they relate to personal transformation in the counselling process. I have come to understand personal transformation as a dynamic, evolving and ongoing process. Personal transformation from my perspective, often occurs in the everyday events and circumstances of life. During this thesis journey, I have discovered that the ultimate goal of personal transformation is the unfolding of our unique story. In the unfolding of our unique story, the answers to the three central transformational questions of this thesis are illuminated. Parker Palmer has said: "Vocation is when our deepest desire meets the world's great need." (Palmer2000 p.5). The challenge for me now is to find ways to meet this great need." – The Author
	Jorge N. Ferrer & Richard Tarnas (2001) Revisioning Transpersonal Theory: A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality	A participating alternative to the experimentalism and perennialism dominant in transpersonal psychology. In his striking debut, Jorge Noguera Ferrer deconstructs and reconstructs the entire transpersonal project, articulating a more sophisticated, pluralistic, and spiritually grounded transpersonal theory. He brings recent ideas in epistemology and the philosophy of science to bear upon core issues in the psychology and philosophy of religion. The book's first half (Deconstruction) describes the nature and origins of the experiential vision that has guided transpersonal scholarship so far, and identifies some of its main conceptual and practical limitations: intrasubjective reductionism, subtle Cartesianism, spiritual narcissism, and integrative arrestment. In the second half of the book (Reconstruction), Ferrer suggests an alternate way of reconceiving transpersonal ideas without these limitations – a participatory vision of human spirituality, one which not only overcomes the limitations of the experiential vision, but also places transpersonal studies in greater alignment with the values of the spiritual quest.
alternate link	Clyde W. Ford (1992) Where Healing Waters Meet: Touching the Mind and Emotions Through the Body	The first book to combine psychological and spiritual therapies with the principles of therapeutic touch, Where Healing Waters Meet was greeted with enthusiastic praise in its original edition. Finally in paperback, the book continues to represent the cutting edge of a new therapy based on touch rather than talk for easing emotional pain. Drawings.
	John Rowan (1998) The Reality Game: A Guide to Humanistic Counselling and Therapy	"This is a book intended for the practitioner in psychotheraphy, counselling or personal growth who wants to adopt a humanistic approach." – the author The Reality Game is an introduction to the skills used in individual and group therapy. For those training in humanistic or integrative psychotherapy and counselling it has become established as an essential guide to good practice. Guiding the reader through the theoretical and practical aspects of establishing and developing the relationship between counsellor and client, the book complements texts on psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavior therapy, and shows that the humanistic approach is broader than generally imagined.
	John Rowan & Michael Jacobs (2002) The Therapist's Use of Self	The book is aimed primarily at counsellors and psychotherapists, or trainees in these disciplines. It has been written in a way that is accessible to students at all levels, but it is also of particular value to existing practitioners with an interest in the problems of integration.
	John Rowan (2001) Ordinary Ecstasy: The Dialectics of Humanistic Psychology	Humanistic Psychology ranges far and wide into education, management, gender issues and many other fields. Ordinary Ecstasy, first published in 1976, is widely regarded as one of the most important books on the subject. Although this new edition still contains much of the original material, it has been completely rethought in the light of postmodern ideas, with more emphasis on the paradoxes within humanistic psychology, and takes into account changes in many different areas, with a greatly extended bibliography. Ordinary Ecstasy is written not only for students and professionals involved in humanistic psychology – anyone who works with people in any way will find it valuable and interesting.
	Frances Vaughan (2001) The Inward Arc: Healing in Psychotherapy and Spirituality	The Inward Arc offers practical wisdom for healthy human development and valuable guiding principles for integrating psychological and spiritual growth. It provides a wealth of information about transpersonal psychology and a variety of experiential exercises for inspiration and renewal. "The clearest and most accessible text on a spiritual approach to psychology and psychotherapy available today." – Bryan Wittine, Ph.D., Psychotherapist
	Roger Walsh & Frances Vaughan (1993) Paths beyond Ego: The Transpersonal Vision	This book is a clarion call for an expanded vision of human possibilities. The 50 essays that make up Paths Beyond Ego apply transpersonal thinking to individual growth, psychotherapy, meditation, dreams, psychedelics, science, ethics, philosophy, ecology and service. The result is an integrated and comprehensive overview of the many dimensions of human experience.
	Michael Washburn (1995) The Ego and the Dynamic Ground: A Transpersonal Theory of Human Development	"This is the best book on transpersonal psychology I've ever read. It does not require huge metaphysical leaps of faith. The explanations of the difficulties on the spiritual path related to reconnecting to the Dynamic Ground are nothing short of brilliant. It puts mystical experiences, Jungian psychology, and spiritual development into a clear, coherent model which makes perfect sense. I've used Washburn's model in a university level course I've taught on transpersonal psychology and have started a Washburn study group with my friends." – Amazon.com review by George Ochsenfeld (SUNY Series in the Philosophy of Psychology)
	Michael Washburn (1999) Transpersonal Psychology in Psychoanalytic Perspective	(SUNY Series in the Philosophy of Psychology)
	Nicholas Young & Christine Michael, editors (2008) Counseling in a Complex Society Challenges to Professional Practice	The practice of professional counseling in the twenty-first century is faced with challenge and opportunity on many fronts. The counselor, whose working environment may range from clinic to school to private practice, will face a wide variety of counseling concerns and a vast client population. This book takes the counselor and counseling student through a range of pertinent issues from multicultural concerns to Internet counseling, from PTSD through Expressive Arts.     The authors offer their hard won expertise, earned through long experience in the field. As practitioners and educators, their combined knowledge offers a useful visit to the realms of counseling and its vicissitudes. The topics in each of these chapters are offered as an invitation to explore the winding vistas that each professional counselor will face in doing work on the front lines, with clients facing a wide array of needs and complex life situations.
Intuition
	Frances Vaughan (1978) Awakening Intuition	Awakening Intuition guides the reader to the greater realization of his or her own intuitive powers through specific exercises, which are combined with an examination of the role of intuition in such processes as creativity and problem solving. A concise overview of the most recent research in this area completes the book.
Relationships
	Susan M. Campbell (1984) Beyond the Power Struggle	The author is extraordinarily gifted in presenting material from the various branches of psychology and psychotherapy in simple layman's terms that make it useful for relationships in everyday life. Has the potential to prevent many conflicts and the power to help resolve existing ones, provided the reader looks into the mirror the book holds up to him/her (in a non-judgemental, non-critical manner) from time to time. – An Amazon.com reviewer
	Alice McDowell (2009) Gentle Lessons from A Recovering People Pleaser	Most people are not conscious of the many sub-personalities within each of us that created unhealed emotional pain and wounds that we have repressed since childhood. They remain and dwell within, buried deeply, without our awareness, continuing to create problems, anger and pain daily. As long as these wounds are unrecognized and repressed we view our life’s challenges and activities through the emotional lens of a child. With Ali’s book, based on Psychosynthesis, you will recognize and release the pain, heal the past and see life differently. Only then can you respond to issues and relationships with a new perspective improving your relationships and your life.
Religion
	Howard Fuller (2007) The Pastor Who Learned To Dance: How I Learned To Be Myself in the Church	"Your book is very good; very readable, very insightful and sometimes profound. I appreciate your open (and courageous) description of your personal spiritual journey, also your description of Psychosynthesis and its possible manner of application to one's self and to the activity of the Church.... I think ... that your work could be particularly helpful as a teaching tool for ministers and seminarians." – A Colleague
Nature
	Ellie King (1997) Becomings: A Unique Experience of Our Earth	An enchanting collection of guided imageries in which the reader becomes various beings in nature. Experience the journey of becoming A Rock...The Wind... A Wolf...and more... A retired teacher shared, "Wish I'd had this years ago when I was teaching nursery school. Would have been wonderful to read to the children at quiet time." A Minister found Becomings very spiritual, taking it to her spirituality course at Seminary to show how we may be spiritual in different ways. Others have used Becomings to cope with their despair about the environment, and to rekindle their closeness with nature. – Out of Print –
	William P. Ryan, PhD, & Jeanne M. Lightfoot, LJCSW (2000) In the Woods, At the Water: Healing Journeys into Nature	– Out of Print –
Miscellaneous
	Debbie Ford (1999) The Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity, Brilliance, and Dreams
	Paul Hwoschinsky (1990) True Wealth
alternate link	Rachel Naomi Remen, MD (2006) Kitchen Table Wisdom: 10th Anniversary	"I recommend this book highly to everyone." (Deepak Chopra, M.D.) "This is a beautiful book about life, the only true teacher." (Bernie Siegel, M.D.) "Rachel Naomi Remen is nature's gift to us, a genius of that elusive and crucial capacity, the human heart." (Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of Emotional Intelligence)

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