FURTHER READING

FURTHER READINGS

For those interested in pursuing some of the individual topics explored in Hell-Bent further, I wanted to provide a list of the texts I found most valuable while writing. I can promise it only gets more interesting.

THE HISTORY OF YOGA

IF YOU HAVE TIME FOR ONLY TWO:

Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Postural Practice by Mark Singleton. Oxford University Press, 2010

Sinister Yogis by David Gordon White. University of Chicago Press, 2009

FOR MORE DEPTH:

The Alchemical Body by David Gordon White. University of Chicago Press, 2007

Kiss of the Yogini by David Gordon White. University of Chicago Press, 2003

A History of Modern Yoga by Elizabeth De Michelis. Continuum Press, 2004

Yoga: The Technology of Ecstasy by Georg Feurstein. St. Martin’s Press, 1989

Eighty-four Asanas in Yoga: A Survey of Traditions by Gudrun Buhnemann. D.K. Printworld, 2007

The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana by Ian Whichler. State University of New York Press, 1998

Yoga in Modern India by Joseph Alter. Princeton University Press, 2004

Yoga: Immortality and Freedom by Mircea Eliade. Princeton University Press, 1958

The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America by Stefanie Syman. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010

Yoga in the Modern World, edited by Jean Byrne and Mark Singleton. Routledge, 2008

THE NEUROLOGY OF PAIN

IF YOU HAVE TIME FOR ONLY TWO:

Pain: The Science of Suffering by Patrick Wall. Columbia University Press, 2000

Phantoms in the Brain by V. S. Ramachandran. HarperCollins, 1998

FOR MORE DEPTH:

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge. Penguin, 2007

The Challenge of Pain by Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall. Penguin Press, 2004

The Modular Brain by Richard Restak. Touchstone Press, 1995

The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering by Melanie Thernstrom. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2010

Why We Hurt: The Natural History of Pain by Frank Vertosick Jr. Harcourt Press, 2000

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF NARCISSISM

IF YOU HAVE TIME FOR ONLY TWO:

Prophetic Charisma: The Psychology of Revolutionary Religious Personalities by Len Oakes. Syracuse University Press, 1997

The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists by Eleanor Payson. Julian Day Publications, 2002

FOR MORE DEPTH:

The Point of Existence: Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization by A. H. Almass. Shambhala Press, 1996

The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power by Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer. North Atlantic Books, 1993

Being and Loving: How to Achieve Intimacy with Another Person and Retain One’s Own Identity by Althea Horner. Littlefield Publishing Group, 2005

The Narcissistic and Borderline Disorders by J. Masterson. Brunner, 1985

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self (Revised Edition) by Alice Miller. Basic Books, 1997

Therapy Gone Mad: The True Story of Hundreds of Patients and a Generation Betrayed by Carol Lynn Mithers. Addison Wesley, 1994

Essential Papers on Narcissism by Andrew Morrison. New York University Press, 1986

Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity by
Robert Moore. Chiron Publications, 2003

BRAIN & BODY: THE SCIENCE OF PLACEBO EFFECTS, YOGA and HEALING

IF YOU HAVE TIME FOR ONLY TWO:

Placebo Effects: Understanding the Mechanisms in Health and Disease by Fabrizio Benedetti. Oxford University Press, 2009

The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch. Basic Books, 2010

FOR MORE DEPTH:

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge. Penguin, 2007

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human by V. S. Ramachandran. Norton and Company, 2012

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey. Little Brown and Company, 2008

The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ is Wrong by David Shenk. Doubleday Books, 2010

The Placebo Effect and Health: Combining Science and Compassionate Care by Grant W. Thompson. Prometheus Books, 2005