Introduction
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2. Luke 4:23, New Testament, New International Version Bible.
3. In Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices (1907), his earliest writing about religion, Freud suggests that religion and neurosis are similar products of the human mind: neurosis, with its compulsive behavior, is “an individual religiosity,” and religion, with its repetitive rituals, is a “universal obsessional neurosis, from: Peter Gay, ed., The Freud Reader (New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 1995), 435.
4. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (London: Hogarth Press, 1946), 7–22.
5. Clare Dunne, Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul: An Illustrated Biography (New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002), Prelude.
6. This quote was written in the paper “Science, Philosophy and Religion” that Einstein prepared for initial meeting of the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York City (Sept. 9–11, 1940).
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11. Kimberly K. Laubmeier, S. G. Zakowski, and J. P. Bair, “The Role of Spirituality in the Psychological Adjustment to Cancer: A Test of the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping,” International Journal of Behavioral Medicine 11, no. 1 (2004): 48–55.
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20. Harold G. Koenig, Michael E. McCullough, David B. Larson, Handbook of Religion and Health (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 97–117.
21. Kenneth S. Kendler, X. Q. Liu, C. O. Gardner, et al., “Dimensions of Religiosity and Their Relationship to Lifetime Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders,” American Journal of Psychiatry 160, no. 3 (2003): 496–503.
22. Pehr Granqvist et al., “Attachment and Religious Representations and Behavior” in Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications: 2nd Edition (New York: Guilford Press, 2008), 906–33.
23. Mary D. Ainsworth, “Attachments across the Life Span,” Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 61, no. 9 (November 1985): 792–812.
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26. Eric R. Maisel, PhD, “Rethinking Mental Health,” Psychology Today, February 15, 2016, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rethinking-mental-health/201602/anna-yusim-humanistic-psychiatry.
Chapter 1
1. Donald W. Winnicott, “Ego Distortion in Terms of True and False Self,” in The Maturational Process and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development (New York: International UP Inc., 1965), 140–152.
2. Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1941), 18.
3. Tian Dayton, “Creating a False Self: Learning to Live a Lie,” HuffPost Healthy Living (November 17, 2011), http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-tian-dayton/creating-a-false-self-lea_b_269096.html.
4. Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, 8th ed., trans. Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy (New York: Riverhead Books, 1997), 11.
5. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. J. Macquarrie, E. Robinson (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), 41–49, 244–252, 293–311.
6. Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child (New York: Basic Books, 2008), 21, 45.
7. Irvin Yalom, Love’s Executioner (New York: HarperCollins, 1989), 17.
8. Lucy L. Brown, B. Acevedo, and H. E. Fisher, “Neural Correlates of Four Broad Temperament Dimensions: Testing Predictions for a Novel Construct of Personality,” PLoS One 11, no. 8 (November 13, 2013): e78734, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078734. eCollection 2013.
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15. Fadel Zeidan, J. A. Grant, C. A. Brown, J. G. McHaffie, and R. C. Coghill, “Mindfulness Meditation-Related Pain Relief: Evidence for Unique Brain Mechanisms in the Regulation of Pain,” Neuroscience Letters 520, no. 2 (June 29, 2012):165–73, doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.03.082. Epub 2012 Apr 6.
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Chapter 2
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2. G. J. C. Lokhorst and Timo T. Kaitaro, “The Originality of Descartes’s Theory about the Pineal Gland,” Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 10, no. 1, (2001): 6–18. ISSN 0964-704X.
3. Lennart Heimer, Gary Van Hoesen, Michael Trimble, Daniel Zahm, “The Triune Brain Concept and the Controversy Surrounding It,” in Anatomy of Neuropsychology: The New Anatomy of the Basal Forebrain and its Implications for Neuropsychiatric Illness (Amsterdam; Boston: Academic Press-Elsevier, 2008), 15–16, 19.
4. Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), 19–31.
5. Lissa Rankin, MD, The Fear Cure (Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2015), Kindle Location 371.
6. Donna Jackson Nakazawa, “15 Ways to Get Someone Out of Your Head,” Psychology Today, May 26, 2014. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-last-best-cure/201405/15-ways-get-someone-out-your-head.
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Chapter 3
1. Anna Freud, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense (London: Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1937), 54.
2. Carl Jung, “Psychology and Religion,” in CW 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1938), 140.
3. Carl Jung, “The Philosophical Tree,” in CW 13: Alchemical Studies (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 938), 335.
4. Carl Jung, “Good and Evil in Analytical Psychology,” in CW 10. Civilization in Transition. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1959), 872.
Chapter 4
1. Living Wisdom from the Kabbalah Centre: “Kabbalistic Concepts: Making the Correction” (December 9, 2013), https://livingwisdom.kabbalah.com/making-correction.
2. Michael Toms, An Open Life: Joseph Campbell (Harper Collins, 1990), 26.
3. Karen Berg, Finding the Light Through the Darkness (New York: Kabbalah Centre Publishing, 2016), 3.
4. Kabbalah University, “Living Kabbalah System Level 1, Lesson 12,” accessed April 13, 2017, https://university.kabbalah.com/living-kabbalah-system-level-1/112-tools-proactivity.
5. William Shakespeare, Hamlet (England: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 1.3,78.
6. Katherine Woodward Thomas, Calling in “the One”: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life (New York: Harmony Books, 2004), 163–64.
7. Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or, Life in the Woods (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1899), 10.
8. Herman Hesse, Demian, trans. Stanley Appelbaum (New York: Dover Publications, 2000), 83.
9. Robert Jaworski, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2011), 119.
10. Thomas Moore, Soul Mates: Honoring the Mysteries of Love and Relationship (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), xvii.
11. Joan Z. Borysenko, PhD, Inner Peace for Busy People (Sydney: ReadHowYouWant, 2009), 346.
Chapter 5
1. Maxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics (New York: Tarcher-Perigee, 2015), 3.
2. Harville Hendrix, PhD, Getting the Love You Want, 20th Anniversary Edition: A Guide for Couples. (New York: Macmillan, 2007), 38.
3. Louise Hay, Mirror Work: 21 Days to Heal Your Life (Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2016), 48–49.
4. Sharon Salzberg, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, (Boulder: Shambhala, 2002), 25.
5. Jack Kornfield, The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universe Teachings of Buddhist Psychology, (New York: Bantam Books, 2008), 350.
Chapter 6
1. Poem: “There Is a Candle in Your Heart,” from Hush Don’t Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi, translated by Sharam Shiva (Jain Pub Co., October 1, 1999).
2. Letter from Dr. Carl Jung to Bill Wilson: Kusnacht-Zurich, Seestrasse 228, January 30, 1961, accessed August 9, 2016, http://www.soberrecovery.com/recovery/the-famous-letter-from-carl-jung-to-bill-wilson-founder-of-alcoholics-anonymous/.
3. N. M. Avena, P. Rada, and B. G. Hoebel, “Evidence for Sugar Addiction: Behavioral and Neurochemical Effects of Intermittent, Excessive Sugar Intake,” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 32, no. 1 (2008): 20–39, e-pub 2007 May 18.
4. N. M. Hetherington and J. I. MacDiarmid, “‘Chocolate addiction’: A Preliminary Study of its Description and its Relationship to Problem Eating,” Appetite 21, no. 3 (December1993): 233–46.
5. Nora D. Volkow, G. G. Koob, and A. T. McLellan, “Neurobiologic Advances from the Brain Disease Model of Addiction,” New England Journal of Medicine 374, no. 4 (January 28, 2016): 363–71, doi: 10.1056/NEJMra1511480.
6. Rose A. Rudd, et. al., “Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths—United States, 2010–2015,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 65, no. 50–51 (December 30, 2016): 1445–1452.
7. Rosemary Brown with Laura MacKay, “Addiction Is the Symptom, Not the Problem,” The Fix, Mar 20, 2016, https://www.thefix.com/addiction-symptom-not-problem.
8. This exercise is adapted from the Heart Lock-In technique of HeartMath. See Doc Childre, Howard Martin, and Donna Beech, The HeartMath Solution: The Institute of HeartMath’s Revolutionary Program for Engaging the Power of the Heart’s Intelligence (New York: HarperCollins, 2011), 213–14.
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Chapter 7
1. Sigmund Freud, “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death,” in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 4 (London: Hogarth Press, 1953), 304–305.
2. Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), 190.
3. Marianne Williamson, Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment (New York: Harper Collins, 2016), 1–19.
4. Robert M. Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, Third Edition (New York: Holt, 2004), 21.
5. Ibid., 4–18.
6. Ibid., 215–25.
7. Karl Albrecht, PhD, “The (Only) 5 Fears We All Share,” (March 22, 2012), Brainsnacks blog, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainsnacks/201203/the-only-5-fears-we-all-share.
8. X Zeng, C. P. Chiu, R. Wang, T. P. Oei, and F. Y. Leung, “The Effect of Loving-Kindness Meditation on Positive Emotions: A Meta-Analytic Review,” Frontiers in Psychology, 6, (November 2015): 1693, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01693. eCollection 2015.
Chapter 8
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2. Rabbi Philip S. Berg, Kabbalah for the Layman (New York: The Kabbalah Learning Centre, December 1991), 14–17.
3. Lewis B. Smedes, Shame and Grace: Healing the Shame We Don’t Deserve (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), 141.
4. John Gardner, Grendel (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010), 133, 159.
5. Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992), 75–76.
6. David R. Hawkins, MD, PhD, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender (Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2014), Kindle Location 714.
7. Aaron Beck, “The Past and the Future of Cognitive Therapy,” Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research 6, no. 4 (fall 1997): 276–84.
8. Doc Childre, Howard Martin, and Donna Beech, The HeartMath Solution: The Institute of HeartMath’s Revolutionary Program for Engaging the Power of the Heart’s Intelligence (New York: HarperCollins, 2011), Kindle Locations 2826–2833, 2869–2871.
9. Joseph Le Doux, The Emotional Brain, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), 178.
10. T. Gard et al., “Greater Widespread Functional Connectivity of the Caudate in Older Adults Who Practice Kripalu Yoga and Vipassana Meditation than in Controls,” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9 (March 16, 2015): 137, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00137, eCollection 2015.
11. Barry Boyce, “The Healing Power of Mindfulness,” Mindful, Feb 28, 2011, http://www.mindful.org/the-healing-power-of-mindfulness/#.
12. Daniel J. Siegel, Mindsight (New York: Bantam, 2010), 86.
13. Natasha Odou and Jay Brinker, “Self-Compassion, A Better Alternative to Rumination than Distraction as a Response to Negative Mood,” Journal of Positive Psychology 10, no. 5 (Sept 2015): 447–57.
14. J. R. Wolkin, “Cultivating Multiple Aspects of Attention through Mindfulness Meditation Accounts for Psychological Well-Being through Decreased Rumination,” Psychology Research and Behavior Management 8 (June 29, 2015):171–80, doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S31458, eCollection 2015.
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Chapter 9
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3. Letter from Sigmund Freud to Carl Jung: Vienna IX, Berggasse 19, April 16, 1909 (reproduced with permission of Ernst Freud, London), appearing in: C. G. Jung (author), Aniela Jaffe (author, editor), Clara Winston (translator), Richard Winston (translator) Kindle Edition, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Vintage Reissue edition; sold by Random House, January 6, 2011), 361.
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5. Milton Rokeach, Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Narrative Study of Three Lost Men, (New York: Random House, 2011), xiii.
6. Bertrand Russell, Power: A New Social Analysis, second edition (London: Routledge Classics, 2004), 3.
7. Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths (New York: Times Books, 2011), 263–66.
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12. John Allen Paulos, Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up (New York: Macmillan, 2007), ix.
13. Carl Jung, from “The Conjunction,” Mysterium Coniunctionis, Collected Works, XIV, (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1955–56), 384–85.
Chapter 10
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6. Lynne McTaggart, The Field, Updated Edition: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (New York: HarperCollins, 2012), 85.
7. Eugene Weigner, Jagdish Mehra, and Arthur S. Wightman, eds., Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses (Berlin: Springer, 1995), 14.
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