Book List

Sample chapters from some of these books can be read via Google Books. In this case, appropriate links have been included. In other cases, there are links to Amazon where the "look inside" feature can be used to get a better feel for the book.

Key Reading

	Stanislav & Christina Grof (eds), Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis, With contributions from : R.D Laing, Roberto Assagioli, John Weir Perry, Ram Dass, Lee Sanella, Jack Kornfield, Paul Rebillot, Holgar Kalweit, Anne Armstrong, Keith Thompson and others. Penguin Putnam 1989
	Stanislav & Christina Grof, The Stormy Search for the Self, A guide to personal growth through transformational crisis, Penguin Putnam 1990
	Catherine Lucas. In Case of Spiritual Emergency: Moving Successfully through Your Awakening. Published by Findhorn Press. 2011
	Clarke, I. (Ed.) Psychosis and Spirituality: consolidating the new paradigm. Inc. among others: David Lukoff; Janice Hartlye;Peter Chadwick; Gordon Claridge; Isabel Clarke; Neil Douglas-Klotz; Peter Fenwick; Mike Jackson; Emmanuelle Peters Chichester: Wiley. 2010
	Isabel Clarke, Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God, O Books, 2008
	Lee Sannella, The Kundalini Experience: Psychosis or Transcendence? Integral Publishing 1992
	Courtenay Young, First Contacts with People in Crisis & Spiritual Emergencies, AuthorHouse 2011

Other useful books

	Janet Adler, Arching Backwards: The mystical initiation of a contemporary woman, Inner Traditions International 1995
	Emma Bragdon, A Sourcebook for Helping People with Spiritual Problems (first published as A Sourcebook for Helping People in Spiritual Emergency) LighteningUp Press 1988
	Mariana Caplan, Halfway up the Mountain- The error of premature claims to enlightenment, Hohm Press 1999
	Ram Dass, Journey of Awakening, New Age Bantam Books 1990
	Fransje de Waard. Spiritual Crisis: Varieties And Perspectives Of A Transpersonal Phenomenon. imprint-academic.com. 2010
Biology of Kundalini	Jana Dixon. Biology of Kundalini. Lulu.com. 2008.
	Jennifer Elam, Dancing with God Through the Storm: Mysticism and Mental Illness, Way Opens Press 2002
	Bonnie Greenwell, Energies of Transformation: A guide to the Kundalini Process, Shakti River Press 1995
	Hilary Hart, The Unknown She: Eight faces of an emerging consciousness, Golden Sufi Center 2004
	Jack Kornfield, After the Ecstasy Now the Laundry: How the heart grows wise on the spiritual path, Bantam books 2000
	John Lilly, The Centre of the Cyclone, Marion Boyars, 1973
From spiritual emergency to spiritual problem: The transpersonal roots of the new DSM-IV category	Lukoff, D., Lu, F., and Turner, R. , From spiritual emergency to spiritual problem: The transpersonal roots of the new DSM-IV category, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 38(2), 21-50, 1998.
Visionary Spiritual Experience	Lukoff, D., Visionary Spiritual Experience, Southern Medical Journal, Volume 100, Number 6, June 2007
	Dr Philip Thomas and Rufus May, Medication, available via www.hearing-voices.org/publications.htm (unfortunately it is not online)
	John Weir Perry, The self in Psychotic process
	John Weir Perry, The Far Side of Madness, Prentice-Hall 1974
	John Weir Perry, Trials of the Visionary Mind, State University of New York Press 1999
	Edward M Podvoll, Recovering Sanity: a compassionate approach to understanding and treating psychosis, Shambala 2003
	Lauren Slater, Welcome to my Country: a therapist's memoir of madness, Hamish Hamilton 1996
	Irina Tweedie, Daughter of Fire. A diary of a spiritual training with a Sufi master, Golden Sufi centre 1986
	Roger Walsh and Frances Vaughan (eds), Paths Beyond Ego: The transpersonal vision, Tarcher/Putnam 1993
	Frances Vaughan, Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing through spiritual illusions, Quest Books 1995
	Courtenay Young, Help Yourself Towards Mental Health. Karnac Books. 2011