Mental Illness? or - Salvation Copyright ©2014 Hazel Gay
I’ve compiled a list of books and articles from my reading, some of which help explain and confirm my experience. I found the items that discuss psychosis as potential transformation and renewal AFTER I had finished my journey in 1989. The starred items are particularly relevant to the psychic renewal process.
Abbhayananda, S. History of Mysticism. Olympia,WA: Atma Books, 1996.
Adam, Michael. Wandering in Eden. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Armstrong, Karen. A History of God. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
– The Future of God. (audio tape) Boulder, Colorado: Sounds Tru Audio, 1995.
Bach, Richard. There’s No Such Place As Far Away. New York: Delacorte, 1979.
Baigent, Michael and Leigh, Richard. The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception. New York: Summit,
1991.
Barrow, John D. and Tipler, Frank J. “Modern Teleology and the Anthropic Principles” and
“Quantum Mechanics and the Anthropic Principle.” The Anthropic Cosmological
Principle. Oxford and New York: Oxford U. Press, 1986.
* Buckley, Peter. “Identifying Schizophrenic Patients Who Should Not Receive Medication.”
Schizophrenia Bulletin. Vol. 8, No. 3, 1982, pgs. 429-432.
– “Mystical Experience and Schizophrenia.” Schizophrenia Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1981,
pgs, 516-521.
Campbell, Joseph. The Inner Reaches of Outer Space. New York: Harper and Row, 1986.
– Creative Mythology: The Masks of God. New York: Penguin/Viking, 1968.
* – The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton U. Press, 1949.
* – “Schizophrenia – the Inward Journey,” Myths to Live By. New York: Bantam, 1973.
Campbell, Joseph, ed. – The Portable Jung. New York: Viking, 1971.
– Myths to Live By. New York: Bantam, 1972.
Campbell, Joseph with Moyers, Bill. Betty Sue Flowers, ed. The Power of Myth. New York:
Doubleday, 1988.
Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of Physics. New York: Bantam, 1977.
– The Turning Point. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.
– The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. New York:
Doubleday, 1996.
Cassirer, Ernest. An Essay on Man. Yale University Press, 1967.
Castaneda, Carlos. Journey to Ixtlan. (Reissue) Washington Square Press, 1992.
– The Teachings of Don Juan. New York: Penguin, 1970.
– A Separate Reality. New York: Simon and Schuster, 197l.
– The Fire from Within. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.
Chayefsky, Paddy. Altered States. New York: Harpercollins, 1978.
Chesler, Phyllis. Women and Madness. New York: Avon, 1972.
Chomsky, Noam. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom. New York: Pantheon/Random, 1971.
Chopra, Deepak. The Higher Self. Niles, Ill.: Nightingale Conant, 1991. (audio book)
Colegrave, Sukie. By Way of Pain. Rochester, Vermont: Park St. Press, 1986.
Cross, Neal M. and Lindon, Leslie Dale. The Search for Personal Freedom. Wm. C. Brown,
1948.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. The Evolving Self. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Damasio, Antonio R. Descartes’ Error. New York: Grosset/Putnam, 1994.
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine. The Little Prince. France: Gallimard, 1943.
Dunkel, Harold B. Whitehead on Education. Ohio UP, 1965.
Epstein, M.D., Mark. Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on
Wholeness. New York: Broadway Books, 1998.
Estes, Clarissa Pinkola. Women Who Run with the Wolves. New York: Ballantine, 1992.
Eysenck, H.J. Uses and Abuses of Psychology. Baltimore: Penguin, 1953.
Ferguson, Marilyn. The Aquarian Conspiracy. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1980.
Fisher, Walter; Mehr, Joseph and Truckenbrod, Philip. Power, Greed and Stupidity in the
Mental Health Racket. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1973.
Foucault, Michel. “The Great Confinement” and “The Birth of the Asylum.” Madness and
Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Vintage Books, 1988.
Frankel, Viktor. The Unconscious God. New York: Pocket/Simon and Schuster, 1975.
– The Unheard Cry for Meaning. New York: Pocket/Simon and Schuster, 1978.
– Man’s Search for Meaning. New York: Washington Square Press/Simon and
Schuster, 1963.
Frattaroli, Elio. Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain. New York: Viking Penguin; 2001.
Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York: W.W. Norton, 1974.
Fromm, Erich. Escape from Freedom. New York: Avon, 1965.
– The Art of Loving. New York: Harper and Row, 1956.
– Man for Himself. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1965.
– The Sane Society. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett. 1965.
– The Heart of Man. Colophon/Harper and Row, 1964.
– Psychoanalysis and Religion. Yale University Press: 1967.
Gamow, George. Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory.
New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1966.
Goffman, Irving. Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other
Inmates. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1961.
Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam, 1995.
* Grof, Christina. “Spiritual Emergency: The Understanding and Treatment of Transpersonal Crises.”
ReVision. Win/Spr, 1986, Vol. 8. No.2, pgs. 7-19.
* Grof, Stanislav. Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death and Transcendence in Psychotherapy.
Albany: State U. of New York Press, 1986. Pgs. 294-305.
* – “The Psychotic Experience: Disease or Evolutionary Crisis?” ReVision, Win/Spr,
1986, Vol. 8, No. 2, pgs. 3-4.
Hannah, Barbara. Encounters with the Soul. Sigo Press, 1981.
Hayward, Jeremy W. Perceiving Ordinary Magic: Science and Intuitive Wisdom.
Boston: Shambhala, 1984.
Hillman, James. The Soul’s Code. New York: Random House, 1996.
Hubbard, Ruth and Wald, Elijah. Exploding the Gene Myth. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell. New York: Harper and
Row, 1963.
– The Perennial Philosophy. New York: Harper, 1945.
Huxley, Julian. Knowledge, Morality and Destiny. New York: Harper, 1957.
Illich, Ivan. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health. New York: Pantheon, 1976.
James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. New York: Crowell-Collier
Macmillan, 1961.
Janov, Arthur. The Primal Revolution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.
Jourard, Sidney M. The Transparent Self. Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand, 1964.
Jung, C.G.; von Franz, M.L.; Henderson, Joseph L.; Jacobi, Jolande; and Jaffe, Aniela.
Man and His Symbols. New York: Dell, 1968.
Jung, C.G. Dreams, New Jersey: Princeton U. Press, 1974.
– Flying Saucers. New York: Signet, 1969.
– Memories, Dreams, Reflections. New York: Pantheon, 1961.
– Modern Man in Search of a Soul. New York and London: Harvest/Harcourt, 1955.
– The Undiscovered Self. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.,1957.
– ed. by Violet S. deLaszlo. Psyche and Symbol: A Selection from the Writings of
of C.G. Jung. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1958.
Keen, Sam and Valley-Fox, Anne. Your Mythic Journey. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1973.
Koestler, Arthur. The Roots of Coincidence. New York: Vintage/Random, 1973.
Kopp, Sheldon. If You Meet the Buddha on the Road Kill Him: The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy
Patients. New York: Random House, 1982.
Kushner, Lawrence. Honey from the Rock. Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights, 1994.
* Laing, R. D. The Divided Self. Baltimore: Pelican, 1965.
– The Politics of Experience. New York: Ballantine/Random, 1967.
– and Esterson, A. Sanity, Madness and the Family. USA: Penguin, 1970.
– Self and Others. New York: Pantheon/Random, 1969.
– The Voice of Experience. New York: Pantheon/Random, 1982.
Lair, Jess. I Don’t Know Where I’m Going but I Sure Ain’t Lost. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell,
1981.
Leonard, Linda Schierse. On the Way to the Wedding. Boston/London: Shambhala, 1987.
LeShan, Lawrence; Margenau, Henry. Einstein’s Space and Van Gogh’s Sky. New York:
Collier/Macmillan, 1982.
Lewis, C.S.. Out of the Quiet Planet. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 1965.
Lukoff, David. “Transpersonal perspectives on Manic Psychoses: Creative, Visionary and
Mystical States.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 1988, Vol. 20, No. 2,
pgs. 111-139.
* – “The Diagnosis of Mystical Experiences with Psychotic Features.” The Journal of
Transpersonal Psychology, 1985, Vol. 17, No. 2, pgs. 155-179.
Mandino, Og. The Greatest Salesman in the World. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1968.
– The Greatest Secret in the World. New York: Bantam, 1972.
Maslow, Abraham H. The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. New York: Viking, 1971.
– Toward a Psychology of Being. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1968.
– Religions, Values and Peak Experiences. New York: Viking, 1970.
– Motivation and Personality. New York: Harper and Row, 1954.
May, Rollo. The Courage to Create. New York: Bantam, 1976.
– Love and Will. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.
Mehta, Ved. Sound-Shadows of the New World. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1985.
Metzner, Ralph. Opening to Inner Light. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1986.
Miller, Alice. The Drama of the Gifted Child. New York: Basic Books, 1981.
– Thou Shalt Not Be Aware. New York: Meridian/Nal Penguin, 1986.
– The Untouched Key. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1990.
Momaday, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn. New York: HarperCollins, 1966.
– The Way to Rainy Mountain. U. New Mexico Press, 1969.
Moore, Thomas. Care of the Soul. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
– The Soul’s Religion. HarperCollins, Inc., 2002.
Moyers, Bill. Healing and the Mind. New York: Doubleday, 1993.
– Genesis: A Living Conversation. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
Neumann, Erich. Depth Psychology and a New Ethic. C.G. Jung Foundation for
Analytical Psychology, 1969.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil. New York: Vintage/Random House, 1966.
O’Connor, Elizabeth. Eighth Day of Creation. Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1971.
Ogilvy, James. Living Without a Goal: Finding the Freedom to Live a Creative and
Innovative Life. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
Ouspensky, P.D. The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution. New York: Vintage/Random, 1974.
– A New Model of the Universe. New York: Vintage/Random, 1971.
Oyle, Irving. The Healing Mind. Berkeley, California: Celestial Arts, 1979.
– Time, Space and the Mind. Berkeley, California: Celestial Arts, 1976.
Pagels, Elaine. The Origin of Satan. New York: Random House, 1995.
Parchman, Frank. Echoes of Fury. Canada: Kent Sturgis, 2005.
Pearce, Joseph Chilton. The Crack in the Cosmic Egg. New York: Pocket/Simon and
Schuster, 1974.
– Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg. New York: Pocket/Simon and Schuster, 1974.
– Magical Child. New York: Bantam, 1977.
Pearson, Carol S. Awakening the Heroes Within. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991.
Peat, F. David. Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind. New York:
Bantam, 1987.
Perrucci, Robert. Circle of Madness: On Being Insane and Institutionalized in America.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Spectrum/Prentice-Hall, 1974.
* Perry, John Weir. Roots of Renewal in Myth and Madness. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1976.
* – The Far Side of Madness. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1974.
* – Trials of the Visionary Mind: Spiritual Emergency and the Renewal Process.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.
Pfeiffer, Robert. H. Religion in the Old Testament. Great Britain; A & C Black Publishers, Ltd., 1961.
Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct. New York: William Morrow, 1994.
Price, Lucien, rec. Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1954.
Prigogine, Ilya; Stengers, Isabell. Order Out of Chaos. New York: Bantam, 1984.
Progoff, Ira. The Symbolic and the Real. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973.
– Depth Psychology and Modern Man. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973.
– At a Journal Workshop. New York: Dialogue House Library, 1975.
– Jung’s Psychology and Its Social Meaning. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1973.
Restak, Richard. The Brain. New York: Bantam, 1984.
Rogers, Carl R. On Becoming a Person. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
Rosenhan, D.L. “On Being Sane in Insane Places.” Science, Vol. 179, Jan. 19, 1973,
pgs. 250-257.
* Ruitenbeek, Hendrik M., ed. Going Crazy: The Radical Therapy of R.D. Laing and
Others. New York: Bantam, 1972.
Selye, Hans. The Stress of Life. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956.
Sinnot, Edmund W. Matter, Mind and Man. New York: Atheneum, 1962.
Swimme, Brian. The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos. New York: Orbis Books, 1996.
Szasz, Thomas. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. New York: Basic Books, 1974.
– The Myth of Mental Illness. New York: Perennial/Harper and Row, 1974.
– Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumananization of Man.
New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1970.
Teilhard de Chardin. The Divine Milieu: Essay on the Interior Life. New York: Harper
and Row, 1957.
– The Future of Man. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.
– The Phenomenon of Man. HarperCollins, 1980.
Tillich, Paul. The Courage to Be. New York: Yale University Press, 1952.
Tolle, Eckhart. The Power of Now. Novato, California: New World iIbrary, 2001.
van der Post, Laurens. Jung and the Story of Our Time. New York: Pantheon/Random, 1975.
Walkenstein, Eileen. Don’t Shrink to Fit! New York: Grove Press, 1975.
Walsh, M.D., Roger, ed; Vaughn, Ph.D., Frances, ed. Paths Beyond Ego: The
Transpersonal Vision. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1993.
Watts, Alan. Behold the Spirit. New York: Random House, 1971.
– Beyond Theology: the Art of Godmanship. New York: Random House, 1972.
– The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. New York: Random
House, 1972.
– Cloud-Hidden. New York: Random House, 1968.
– Does It Matter? New York: Random House, 1968.
– Nature, Man and the Nature of Man. Los Angeles: Electronics University, 1991.
– Nature, Man and Woman. New York: Pantheon/Random,1958.
– Psychotherapy East and West. New York: Pantheon, 1961.
– This is It and Other Essays. New York: Pantheon/Random, 1958.
– The Supreme Identity. New York: Random House, 1972.
– The Way of Zen. New York: Pantheon/Random House, 1957.
Weiner, Herbert. 9 1/2 Mystics: The Kabbala Today. New York: Collier/Macmillan, 1969.
Whitmont, Edward C. The Symbolic Quest. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University
Press, 1969.
Williams, Margery. The Velveteen Rabbit. New York: Doubleday, 1958.
Williams, William E. Unbounded Light: The Inward Journey. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
Woodman, Marion. The Pregnant Virgin. Toronto: Inner City Books, 1995.
Zohar, Danah. The Quantum Self. New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1990.
Zukov, Gary. The Dancing Wu Li Masters. New York: William Morrow, 1979.
Overlooked when making the original list.
Aldington, Richard. The Religion of Beauty. William Heineman, Ltd., 1950.
Bach, Richard. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. New York: Macmillan, 1970.
Brightbill, Charles K. The Challenge of Leisure. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1960.
Cameron, Julia and Bryan, Mark. Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self. Audio. Hay House,
1996.
Chopra, Deepak. Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. Audio. New York: Random House, 1993.
– Quantum Healing Workshop. Audio. New Yor, Mystic Fire Audio, 1990.
– The Return of Merlin. Audio. New York: Random House, 1995.
Cleaver, Eldridge. Soul on Ice. New York: Dell, 1968.
Cousins, Norman. Dr. Schweitzer of Lambarene. New York: Harper & Row, 1960.
Craven, Margaret. I Heard the Owl Call My Name. New York: Dell, 1973.
de Bono, Edward. Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step. New York: Dell, 1973.
Flaste, Richard; Nobel, Holcomb; Sullivan, Walter; Wilford, John Noble. Halley’s Comet. New York:
Random House, 1985.
Durant, Will. The Mansions of Philosophy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1929.
Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time. New York: Bantam, 1988.
Illich, Ivan. Tools for Conviviality. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
Jung, C.G., Answer to Job. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1969.
Laing, R.D., Cooper, D.G. Reason and Violence. New York: Vintage Books, 1971.
Mead, Margaret. Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in A Changing World. New York: Dell,
1949.
Orwell, George. 1984. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1949.
Paine, Thomas. Common Sense, The Rights of Man, and other Essential Writings. New York: New
American Library, 1969.
Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. New York: Signet, 1960.
Peck, M. Scott. Further Along the Road Less Traveled. Audio book, New York: Simon & Schuster,
1993.
– In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason, and Discovery. Time Warner Audiobooks,
1975.
Lao Tzu. Translation by R. B. Blakney. The Way of Life. New York: Signet, 1955.
Rushdie, Salman, The Satanic Verses. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989.
Schweitzer, Albert. The Teaching of Reverence for Life. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965.
Segalowitz, Sid J. Two Sides of the Brain: Brain Lateralization Explored. New York: Prentice Hall,
1987.
Toynbee, Arnold. Christianity Among the Religions of the World. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1957.
Wieman, Henry Nelson. Man’s Ultimate Commitment. S. Illinois U. Press, 1958.
Recent Additions:
Armstrong, Karen. The Battle for God. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
Harris, Sydney J. The Authentic Person: Dealing with Dilemma. Illinois: Argus Communications,
1972.
LeLoup, Jean-Yves. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Translation from the Coptic
and Commentary by Jean Yves-LeLoup. Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2002.
(This reminded me I read The Gospel of Thomas during the ’70’s.)
Spong, John Shelby. Why Christianity Must Change or Die. San Francisco: Harper, 1998.
Progoff, Ira. Jung, Synchronicity, and Human Destiny. New York: Dell/Delta, 1973
Olson, Lynne. Those Angry Days. New York: Random House, 2013.
Mauldin, Bill. Up Front. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1945. Drawings copyright, United Feature
Syndicate, Inc., 1944.
Sinnott, Edmund W. The Biology of the Sprit. New York: The Viking Press, 1955.
Armstrong, Karen. Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
Armstrong, Karen. Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World. New York: Anchor
Books, 2001.
Armstrong, Karen. The Spiral Staircase. New York: Anchor Books, 2004.
Armstrong, Karen. The Great Transformation. New York: Anchor Books, 2006.
Armstrong, Karen. In the Beginning. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.
Armstrong, Karen. A Short History of Myth. New York: Cannongate, 2005.
Wilbur, Ken. The Spectrum of Consciousness. Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing House.
Second Quest Edition 1993.
Duffy, SSJ, Kathleen. Teilhard’s Mysticism. New York: Orbis Books, 2014
Capra, Fritjof, David Steindl-Rast and Thomas Matus. Belonging to the Universe. San Francisco: Harper, 1991.
Gustafson, Fred R. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Carl Gustav Jung Side by Side. Cheyenne, Wyoming: Fisher King Press, 2015.
Some of the fiction (and non-fiction)I read years ago
Mila 18 by Leon Uris
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
His Eye is on the Sparrow by Ethel Waters
Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie
The Diary of Anne Frank
Papillon by Henri Charriere; Translated by Patrick O’Brian
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingwayu
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
The Tontine by Thomas B. Costain
Blue Camellia by Frances Parkinson Keys
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank by Erma Bombeck
Living, Loving and Learning by Leo Buscaglia
Oklahoma Crude by Marc Norman
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall
Caught in the Quiet by Rod McKuen
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
I’m OK, You’re OK by Thomas Harris