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