Recommended Reading List for Students and Faculty

The following list is considered essential reading for students and faculty compiled by the Process Work Center of Portland, Oregon (www.processwork.org)

The first section or Core List includes books that we consider essential for a general understanding of Process Work, and for the general background of the Process
Worker.

1) Roots and Theory of Process Work
2) Systems of Psychological Thought
3) Visual Channel Awareness
4) Kinesthetic Channel Awareness
5) Proprioceptive Channel Awareness
6) Relationship Channel Awareness
7) World Channel Awareness
8) World Work Issues
9) Altered States of Consciousness
10) Working on Yourself Alone.
11) Dissertations and Theses by Process Workers.

I. Core List
Baker Miller, Jean Toward a New Psychology of Women. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.
Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of Physics. Boston: Shambhala, 1991.
Castaneda, Carlos. Journey to Ixtlan. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972.
Donner, Florinda. Being-in-Dreaming. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1992.
Fanon, Franz. Black Skins, White Masks. New York: Grove Press, 1967.
Freud, Sigmund. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis. NY: Washington Square Press, 1968
Goodbread, Joseph. Dreambody Toolkit. New York & London: Routledge, 1987 (Lao Tse Press 1997).
Hannah, Barbara, Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination. Boston Sigo Press, 1981.
Jung, Carl Gustav. Two Essays on Analytical Psychology. Bollingen Series XX. Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press,
1966.
Jung, Carl Gustav. Memories, Dreams, Reflections. New York: Random House, 1963.
Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Koran Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology. New York & London: Hamlyn, 1959.
Mindell, Amy. Metaskills: The Spiritual Art of Therapy. Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Press, 1996
Mindell, Arnold. Dreambody. Boston: Sigo Press, 1982.
Mindell, Arnold. Working with the Dreaming Body. New York & London: Routledge, 1985.
Mindell, Arnold. River's Way. New York & London: Routledge, 1985.
Mindell, Arnold. Working on Yourself Alone. London: Penguin Arkana, 1990.
Mindell, Arnold. Shaman's Body. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993.
Mindell, Arnold. Sitting in the Fire. Portland, OR.: Lao Tse Press, 1995..
Rich, Adrienne. Of Woman Born. New York: Bantam, 1981.
Sogyal Rinpoche. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1992.
Tao Te Ching--read several versions
Testament - Old and New
Tibetan Book of the Dead
Walker, Barbara, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 83
Watzlawick, Paul, et al. Pragmatics of Human Communication. New York: Norton, 1967.
Wilber, Ken The Holographic Paradigm: Essays on holographic thinking: Boston, Shambala, 1982.
Wong, Eva (transl) Seven Taoist Masters. Boston, Shambhala, 1990. Boston: Beacon Press 1987
Journal of Process Oriented Psychology: general source, teachers can also suggest specific articles in topic areas

II. Specific exam reading lists: (books already on core list not included)

1. Roots and theory of the process paradigm
Bateson, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. San Francisco: Chandler, 1972.
Bandler, Richard & Grinder, John. Structure of Magic, I & II, Palo Alto, Science &Behavior Books,1975
Blofeld, John. Taoism: The Road to Immortality. Boston: Shambhala, 1978.
Bohm, David. Wholeness and the Implicate Order: London, Boston, Routledge & Kegan 1981
Campbell, Joseph. The Masks of God (5 volumes, be selective). New York: Viking, 1969.
Freud, Sigmund. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, CW 12 (Civilization, Society and Religion): New York:
Norton 1959
Glieck, James. Chaos. New York: Penguin, 1987.
Jacobi, Jolande. Complex, Archetype, Symbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung, NY Pantheon Books, 1959
Jung, Carl Gustav. Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, CW 8 . Bollingen Series XX. Princeton, NJ:Princeton
University Press, 1966.
Singer, June. Seeing Through the Visible World. San Fransisco: Harper & Row 1990
Whitmont, Edward, The Symbolic Quest. New York: by Putnam for the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology,
1969.
Wilhelm, Richard. I Ching, or Book of Changes Bollingen Series XIX. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967.
Wehr, Demaris Jung and Feminism: Liberating Archetypes. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.

2. Systems of psychological thought
Chodorow Nancy , The Reproduction of Mothering, University of California Press, 1979
Corsini, Raymond. Current Psychotherapies, 4th edition, Hasca, IL, Peacoc & Publishers, 1969
Doi, Takeo, The Anatomy od Dependence, Kodansha International, Tokyo and New York, 1973
Erikson, Erik. Adulthood, ed by E Erikson, NY, 1978
Feldenkreis, Moshe Body and Mature Behavior. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1949.
Gilligan, Carol. In A Different Voice. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1982.
Jung, Carl Gustav. Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche CW, Vol. 8. Bollingen Series XX. Princeton, NJ:Princeton
University Press, 1966.
Kakar, Sudhir, The Inner World: a Psycho-analytic Study of Childhood and Society in India, 2nd edition, Oxford
University Press, Delhi, 1981
Klein, Melanie. Envy and Gratitude and Other Works: New York: Delacorte Press, S. Lawrence 1975.
Kohut, Heinz. The Restoration of the Self. New York, International Universities Press 1977.
Lowen, Alexander. Bioenergetics, Coward, McCann & Geoghan 1975
Masson, Jeffrey. Freud and the Suppression of the Seduction Theory. New York, Farrar, Straus &Giroux, 1984.
Haley, Jay. Problem Solving Therapy, San Frans, Jossey-Bass Inc, . 1987
Miller, Alice. The Drama of the Gifted Child, second revised edition. New York: Basic, 1994.
Moreno Jacob Levy. The Theater of Spontaneity. New York, Beacon House, 1947.
Perls, Fritz. Gestalt Therapy Verbatim, Lafayette, Calif, Real People Press 1969
Reich, Wilhelm. The Function of the Orgasm, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, NY, 1973
Rimm and J.C. Masters, Behavior Therapy:. New York, Academic Press, 1979.
Rogers Carl, On Becoming A Person. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
Walsh, Roger, Beyond Ego, Los Ang, NY, IP Tarcher, 1980

3. Visual Channel Awareness
Bettelheim, Bruno. Fairytales: The uses of enchantment, the meaning & importance of fairy tales. New York, Knopf,
1976.
Bosnak, Robert. A Little Course on Dreams, Boston, Shambala, 1988
von Franz, Marie Louise, Creation Myths, rev.ed, Boston, Shambala, 1995
von Franz, Marie Louise, Patterns of Creativity Mirrored in Creation Myths, rev.ed, Boston, Shambala, 1996
Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. New York, Basic Books, 1955.
Gendlin, Eugene. Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams. Wilmette, Chiron Publications 1986
Halprin, Sara. Look At My Ugly Face! New York: Penguin, 1996.
Jung, Carl Gustaw, General Aspects of Dream Psychology, CW, 8. Bollingen Series XX. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1966.
Miller, Alice. The Untouched Key. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
Stone, Merlin. When God Was A Woman. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1976.

4. Proprioceptive Channel Awareness
Alexander, F. Studies on Psychosomatic Medicine. New York, Ronald Press 1948.
Dummer, Thomas, Tibetan Medicine and Other Holistic Health Care Systems, London, New York, Routledge, 1988
Ehrenreich, Barbara & English, Deirdre. For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts'
Advice to Women. Garden City, New York, Anchor Press 1978.
Grossinger, R. Planet Medicine, Berkley, Calif, North Atlantic Books, 1995
Kaptchuk, T. The Web That Has No Weaver- Understanding Chinese medicine. New York, Congdo & Weed, 1983.
Lad Vasant, Ayurveda, The Science of Self-Healing, Santa Fe, Lotus Press, 1985
Mindell, Arnold. Coma, Key to Awakening. Boston & Shaftesbury: Shambhala, 1992.
Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat. New York, Summit Books 1995.
Vatsayana. Kama Sutra
Weil, Andrew. Health and Healing. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
White, I. transl. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine. Berkeley & Los
Angeles: University of California Press, 1949.
Pantajali Osho The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Alubuquere, NM, Brotherhood of live. 1984.

5. Kinesthetic Channel Awareness
Herrigel, Eugen, Zen and the Art of Archery: New York, Pantheon Books 1953
Fader, B. and Fader, E. The Expressive Arts Therapies: Art, Music, and Dance as
Psychotherapy. New York, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice - Hall 1981
Mindell, Amy Moving the Dreambody: Movement Work in Process Oriented Psychology, Contact Quarterly, Winter/Spring
1995, Vol 20, No1, 56-62 (also as manuscript in PWCP library)
Reid, H. and Croucher, M.. The Fighting Arts: Great Masters of the Martial Arts
Ueshiba, K. The Spirit of Aikido. Tokyo, New York, distributed through Harper & Row 1984.

6. Relationship Channel Awareness
Ackerman Nathan , The Psychodynamics of Family Life NY, Basic Books 1958
Boston Lesbian Psychologies Collective. Lesbian Psychologies. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Goodbread, Joseph. Radical Intercourse, Portland, OR: Lao Tse Press, 1996.
Herman, Judith Lewis, Trauma and Recovery. New York: Basic, 1992.
Hoffman, Lyn. Foundations of Family Therapy. New York: Basic Books, 1981
Minuchin, Salvator. Families and Family Therapy. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 1974
Mindell, Arnold. The Dreambody in Relationship. New York & London: Routledge, 1987.
Virginia Satir. The New Peoplemaking. Mountain View, Calif. Science & Behavior Books, 1988.

7. World Channel Awareness
Mindell Amy, Discovering the World in the Individual: The World Channel in Psyhotherapy, Journal of Humanistic
Psychology, 1995
Mindell Arnold , The Year I: Global Process Work with Planetary Myths and Structures. New York & London: Penguin,
1989.
Mindell, Arnold, The Leader As Martial Artist. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1992.

8. Worldwork issues
Allison, Dorothy. Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature. Ithica, NY: Firebrand Book, 1994.
Bion, Wilfred R. Experiences in Groups. New York, Basic Books 1961
Blumenfeld, Warren J, ed, Homophobia:How We All Pay the Price, Boston, Beacon Press, 1992
Bohm David, Wholeness and the Implicate Order. London, Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1981
Drakulic, Slavenka. Balkan Express, New York, WW Norton, 1993
Freire, Paolo Pedagogy of the Oppressed: New York , Herder & Herder 1970
Gioseffi, Daniela On Prejudice: A Global Perspective New York Anchor Books 1993
Hongo, Garret ed., Under Western Eyes: Personal Essays from Asian America. Anchor Books/Doubleday NY,1995
Katz, Jonathan Ned, The Invention of Heterosexuality, New York, Plume Books, 1996.
Kochman, T. Black and White Styles in Conflict. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1982
Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Patriarachy. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Lovelock, J. Gaia, a Look at Life on Earth. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1979
Lorde Audre, Sister Outsider. New York: Crossing Press, 1984.
Mead, Michael, Men and the H2O of Life, San Fransisco, Harper, 1993
Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: New York, Grove Press 1965
Moraga, Cherie and Anzaldua, Gloria. This Bridge Called My Back. New York, Kitchen Table - Women of Color Press,
1983.
Morgan, Robin (ed.) Sisterhood Is Powerful. New York: Vintage, 1970.
Nabokov, Peter (ed.) Native American Testimony: New York Viking 1991
Peck, F. Scott. The Road Less Traveled. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1985
Roszak, Kanner and Gomez, (eds.) Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind: San Francisco, Sierra Club
Books 1995.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, New York, Riverhead Books 1995
West, Cornell & Lerner. Blacks and Jews, New York, Delacorte Press 1984
Jaffrey, Liz. The Invisibles: A Tale of the Eunuchs of India, New York, Pantheon, 1996

9. Altered States of Consciousness
Chesler, Phyllis. Women and Madness. New York: Doubleday, 1972.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. (4th edition - DSM IV). American Psychiatric Association.
Eliade. Mircea Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Bollingies Series LXXVI.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972.
Erickson, H Milton, Experiencing Hypnosis: Therapeutic Approaches to Altered States, Irvington Publishers, 1981
Foucault, Michael. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, New York, Pantheon Books, 1965
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth. On Death and Dying. New York: MacMillan, 1969.
Laing, Ronald D. The Divided Self. New York: Penguin, 1970.
Levine, Stephen. Who Dies? New York: Doubleday, 1982.
Mindell, Arnold. City Shadows. out of print from London: Routledge, 1987.
Perry, John. The Far Side of Madness, Dallas, Spring Publications 1984
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr The Gulag Archipelago. New York , Harper & Row 1974
Tart, Charles. Altered States of Consciousness. New York: Doubleday, 1971.
The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
Weil, Andrew. The Natural Mind: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

10. Working On Yourself Alone
Goldberg, Natalie Writing Down the Bones. Boston, Shambala 1986
Iyengar, B Light On Yoga, New York, Schocken Books 1979
Muktananda, Play of Consciousness. CA: Shree Gurudev Siddha Yogo Ashram, 1974.
Wong, Eva transl. Cultivating Stillness, Boston, Shambala 1992

III. Dissertations and Theses on Process Work (available in PWPC library)

Ackermann, Renata, Stories of our Lives - Living with a Life Threatening Illness, Diss, Union Institute, 1994
Arye, Lane. Unintentional Music. Diss., Union Institute, 1991
Audergon, Arlene, Gates of Society, The Application of Process Oriented Psychology on a Psychiatric Ward, Diss, Union
Institute, 1991
Camastral, Silvia. The Constant Itch to Self-Development, a Personal Journey with Atopic Dermatitis. Diss., Union
Institute 1995
Diamond, Julie. Patterns of Communication manuscript 1987, PWCP library,
Dworkin, Jan Group Process Work: A Stage for Personal and Global Development, Diss, Union Institute, 1989
Dworkin, Jan. Living Alchemy. Masters Thesis.1984
Hauser, Reini: Altered States of Consciousness as a complement in the treatment of addiction. An empirical and
qualitative study with 13 heroin addicted persons. Comenius University, Bratislava, 2001
Heizer, Leslie, Beyond Compare: A Personal Reflection on Process Oriented Approaches with Emotionally Disturbed
Children, Diss, Union Institute, 1992
Menken, Dawn. Emerging World Views - Cultural Transformation in Process Oriented
Psychology. Diss. Union Institute, 1989
Mindell, Amy. The Hidden Dance. Antioch University, 1986.
Mones, Leslie, the Ghost of Pharaoh: Worldwork with Anti-Semitism, manuscript, PWPC library, 1995
Rhea, Taking your meditation cushion into the world: perennial philosophies and social activism Master's thesis 1996.
Straub, Sonja Stalking Your Inner Critic Diss., Union Institute, 1990
Summers, Gemma. Conflict: A Gateway to Community. Diss., Union Institute,
Schwarz, Salome, Shifting the Assemblage Point - Transformation in Therapy and
Everyday Live, Diss, Union Instit, 1996
Vassiliou, Alexandra. Listen or Die: The Terrorist As A Role. Diss., Union Institute, 1995.
Vikkelsoe, Jytte, Beyond Guilt and Innocence. Towards a Process Oriented Criminology, Diss, Union Institute, 1996
Zwig, Adam, An Exploratory Study of a Process Paradigm as Applied to Biomedicine: An Interactive Inquiry. Diss,
Saybrook Institute, 1993

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