Reader Recommended Reading List
Disclaimer: Readings represent a diverse range of opinions on mood disorders. The MDSC does not necessarily support or endorse the books and/ or the opinions expressed in any of these publications. We encourage you to apply critical thinking in evaluating your readings and work collaboratively with your health care providers prior to making decisions which impact treatment.
Relaxation & Massage
Books
A Little Relaxation: Dr Saul Miller – Hartley & Marks Publ. (1990).
Art of Breathing, The (improving performance & well-being): Nancy Zi – Bantam (New Age) Books (1986).
Beyond the Relaxation Response (a stress reduction program): H Benson MD -Berkley Books (1985).
Book of Massage (The) – Guide to East & West Techniques: Lidell et al – Simon & Shuster/GAIA (1984).
Chi Self-Massage (Taoist Way of Rejuvenation): Mantak Chia – Healing Tao Books (1986).
Massage Techniques: D Baloti Lawrence – Perigee Book/Putnam Publ. (1986).
Sound Health (music & sounds that heal): Halpern & Savary – Harper & Row (1988).
Audio Tapes
Letting Go of Stress (a guided meditation): Emmett Miller/Halpern – Source Cass/Halpern Sounds (1980).
Reduce Stress (learn to cope with life’s frustrations): Dr David Illig – Success World (1985).
Relaxation (subliminal persuasion series): Potentials Unlimited – Cassettes Concepts Ltd (1994).
Stress Control (create an inner calm) – subliminal: Bright Images – Escott International (1987).
Massage for Health (featuring Shari Belafonte-Harper): J Irola, Dir BFS Video/Healing Arts (1988).
Inspirational – Mind, Body and Soul
Books
Minding the Body & Mending the Mind: Jan Borysenko (HMS) – Addison-Wesley (1987).
Mythic Journey (Your) – finding meaning in life: Keen & Valley-Fox – St Martin’s Press/Tarcher Inc (1989).
Being Happy: Andrew Mathews – Price Stern Sloan Inc (1990).
Quantum Healing (mind/body medicine): Deepak Chopra MD – Bantam (1990).
Staying OK: Harris MD et al – Avon Books (1985).
Audio Tapes
Book (The) – on the Taboo against knowing who you are: Alan W. Watts – Audio Renaissance Tapes Inc. (1990).
Calling it a Day – daily meditations for workaholics: Rbt Larranaga – Harper & Row (1990).
Greatest Miracle in World (The) – message of hope & inspiration: Og Mandino – Bantam Audio Cassette (1989).
Holy Instant (The) – Guided Experiences – A Course in Miracles: Halpern & Hutchinson – Miracle Distribution Centre (1986).
Imagination’s Door (Affirmations of Health, Light & Love): Jones & Cutler – Eastern Gate Publ. Inc.(1980).
Search for Serenity (Through a Course in Miracles): Taylor-Young/ Whiteside-Woo – Serenity (1985).
Showing Love(Loving, Growing & Caring) – subliminal sounds/medns: Bright Images – Escott International (1987).
Time Out – daily devotions for workaholics: Hurst et al – Thos Nelson Publ (1991).
You’ll See It When You Believe It (Way to Personal Transformation): Dr Wayne W Dyer – Nightingale-Conant Audio (1989).
Behaviours, Sleep, Moods and Emotions
Books
Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families: Mondimore, Francis, M.D. John Hopkins Press (1999).
Obsessional States: HR Beech, Ed – Methuen & Co/Harper & Row (1974).
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Guide: JH Greist MD – Anxiety Dis Ctr Un of Wisconsin (1989).
Overcoming Frustration and Anger: Paul A. Hauck – Westminster Press (1974).
Self-Defeating Behaviors: Cudney & Hardy – Harper Collins Publ (1991).
Audio Tapes
It’s Not What You’re Eating, It’s What’s Eating You: Janet Greeson – Simon & Schuster Audio (1993).
Art
Anxiety States – Anxiety Neuroses, a review: Marks & Lader – JNL Nerv Mental Diseases (1973).
Sleep Deprivation-Psych aspects: mood-elevating effects in depression – Germine & Wehr – Jnl of Am Med Assocn (May/92).
Sleep Deprivation-Therapeutic Timing of partial sleep deprivation in depression: Henner Giedke – Jnl Am Med Assn/ex Jnl Aff Dis (Dec/92).
Meditation
Books
Going Within (A guide for Inner Transformation): Shirley MacLaine – Bantam Books (1989).
How to Meditate (the acclaimed guide to self-discovery): Lawrence LeShan – Bantam Books (1986).
MANTRAM Handbook (Blue Mountain Centre of Meditation): Eknath Easwaran – Routledge & Kegan Paul (1977).
Transformation, formulas for (a Mantram handbook): Eknath Easwaran – Nilgiri Press (1985).
Audio Tapes
Angels of Color & Sound (a guided meditation): Jones & Cutler – Eastern Gate Publ Inc.(1980).
Anxiety Free Living (subliminal sounds/meditations): Bright Images – Escott International (1987).
Channeling Your Higher Self: Edgar Cayce Library – Thurston & Ross Audio – Ren/St.Martin’s Press (1988).
Christian Meditation, an introduction: Dom John Main – The Benedictine Priory (1981).
Discovering Your Life’s Purpose (with meditation exercises): Marcia Perkins-Reed – Hay House Audio (1991).
Healing Journey (a guided meditation): Emmett Miller/Raphael – Source (1980).
How to Meditate (classic meditation techniques): Lawrence LeShan – Audio Renaissance (1987).
Infinite Directions (guided meditations): Jones & Cutler – Alex Jones (1983).
Inward Harmony (guided meditation with relaxation music): Marcey – Music by Marcey (1986).
Joy of Stress Power Nap (guided meditation/relaxation): Peter Hanson MD – Andrews, McMeel & Parker Audio (1986).
Lighting The Path (meditations on the twelve steps): Melody Beattie – Simon & Schuster (1992).
Meditation (Edgar Cayce Library): Thurston & Ross – Audio Ren/St.Martin’s Press (1988).
Mirror of Love (guided meditations): Alex Jones – Eastern Gate Publ (1989).
Secret of Letting Go (The): Guy Finley – Nightingale-Conant Audio (1991).
Self Image (subliminal sounds & meditations): Bright Images – Escott International (1982).
TAO of Being (adapted for a New Age from Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching): Ray Grigg – Humanics (New Age) Limited (1990).
Way of ZEN (The) – on peace and enlightenment: Alan W. Watts/R Blum – Audio Renaissance (1989).
Psychiatry
Books
An Outline of Modern Psychiatry (2nd Edition): Jennifer Hughes – John Wiley & sons (1986).
Organic Psychiatry: Reid – Bruner Mazel Inc (1989).
Personality Disorder & Psych Approach – Clinical Management: Turkat, Ira, Daniel – Perrgamon Press (1990).
Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: Cleckley – C.V. Mosby Co.(1976).
Art
Depression – Manifestations, Disorders & Biochemistry
Books
Depression & Mania: Drs Georgotas & Cancro – Elsevier Science Publ Co Inc (1988).
Art
Calcium 2nd Messenger System in bipolar disorders – New Research Directions: Dubovsky, MD et al – Jnl Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience (1992).
Generation of Stress in the Course of Unipolar Depression: Psych LIT Database(APA) – Jnl Abnormal Psychology (nov/91).
Melatonin and Cortisol Levels in Mania & Depression: PsycLIT Database(APA) – Jnl Nervous & Mental Disease (May/89).
Neurodevelopmental Aspects of Bipolar Affective Disorder: Edited by Henry A Nasrallah – Biol Psychiatry (1991).
Sensation Seeking & Bipolar Affective Disorder: Cronin et al – Personality & Individual Differences (mar/92).
Bulletins
Bipolar Disorder: Epidemiology, course, diagnosis, & treatment: Keller & Baker – Bipolar Disorders/Menniger Fdn (1991).
Depressive Illness – a guide for Patients & Families (2nd edn): Thompson et al – Clarke Institute of Psychiatry (1987).
Manic-Depressive Illness – a guide for patients & families (2nd): Thompson et al – Clarke Inst of Psychiatry.
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Drugs & Medications
Books
Prescription Drugs & Nutrition: E Somer MD – RN Garrison Publ (HMAI) (1986).
Prozac (Questions & Answers ….): Dr Ronald R Fieve MD – Avon Books (1994).
Psychiatric Drugs (a Consumer Guide): Yudofsky et al – Ballantine Books (1991).
Art
Alternatives: Lithium: Preventive Treatment, Bipolar Disorder: Prien & Gelenberg – AM Jnl Psychiatry (jul ’89).
Biochemistry of Affective Disorders: Donald Eccleston (RVI) – Br Jnl of Hosp Medicine (jun/92).
Dopamine – Abnormalities (in Schizophrenia: a review ..): Davis et al – -Am Jnl of Psychiatry (nov/91).
Dopamine – Evaluation (…effect in restless legs..): Scheele & Kempi – Archives of Neurology (v47) (nov/90).
Dopamine – Metabolism:CNS serotonin & dopamine – metabolism: Tanii et al – Archives of Toxicology (v64) (apr/90).
Dopamine – Physiological Aspects – catecholamine excretion..: Young et al – Am Jnl of Clinical Nutrition (nov/92).
Dopamine Receptors – ..drugs on: Clozapine, SPET, D2 DRBH..: Pilowsky et al – The Lancet (jul/92).
Dopamine Receptors -ID: pharmacology: the dopamine connection: Solomon H Snyder – Nature (sep/90).
Dopamine Receptors – Physio – cardio – pharmacology..Ibopamine: Lokhandwala & Hedge – Am Jnl of Medicine (may/91).
Dopamine – Research:receptor gene – dopamine & link – alcoholism: Nazario – Wall Street Jnl (apr/90).
Drug Treatment of the Personality Disorders: Geo Stein – Br Jnl of Psychiatry (1992).
Drugs vs. the Couch – “biopsychiatry”: David Gelman – Newsweek (mar/90).
Paroxetine – selective serotonin reuptake inhibiting antidepressant: Caley & Weber – Annals of Pharmacotherapy (oct/93).
Paroxetine, sertraline & fluvoxamine: new SSRI’s: Grimsley & Jann – Clinical Pharm: Drug Reviews (nov/92).
Promise of Prozac – a breakthrough Drug for Depression: Cowley et al – Newsweek (mar/90).
Psychopharmacology – Affective Disorders (Br Assocn ..Monograph): Paykel & Coppen – Oxford Un Press/BAP (1979).
Schizophrenia – a new drug brings patients back to life: Wallis & Willwerth – Time (jul/92).
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) – a comparison: Belanger et al – NEW DRUGS (Ont Coll Pharm) (sep-oct/93).
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors – depression – profile…: Drolet & Tierney – Ott Valley Regional Drug Info Serv (may/93).
SERTRALINE (ZOLOFT), a drug profile: Pfizer Canada Inc – Ott Valley Regl Drug Info Serv (may/92).
Suicides & Parasuicides – high-risk patient group..lithium medcn: Muller-Oerlinghausen et al – Jnl Affective Disorders (1992).
Thyroid Abnormalities – Lithium & Carbamazepine (Tegretol) Treatment: Bochetta et al – Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (jul/92).
Bulletins
Monographs: Clinical Pharmacology Psychotherapeutic Drugs: Hollister Churchill Livingstone (1978).
SSRIs – practice vs theory: Carol Repchinsky, Ed – ECHO (Ott Val Regl Drug Inf) (Sep-Oct/93).
