| The Fragrant Pharmacy | Valerie Ann Wormwood | Another essential (and I don't just mean the oils), her pioneering work with the psychological uses of aromatherapy is really valuable. |
| Food Combining for Health - A new look at the Hay System | Doris Grant and Jean Joyce | By dividing foods into compatibly digestible combinations amzing health benefits can be achieved for Arthritis, weight loss and detoxification. |
| I fly out in Bright Feathers | Allegra Taylor | Exploration of psychic healing, might encourage others to go on their own journey of self discovery. |
| Going Within | Shirley Maclaine | A wonderfully brave and honest description of an inner journey. Magical but believable. |
| The Outsider | Colin Wilson | Seminal book. He identifies the inner angst and the genius that is goaded into being by exclusion. |
| Kundalini | Gopi Krishna | Good description of the mystical life force which Hindus (and others !) believe is the watchspring of illumination. |
| Cosmic Crystals | Ra Bonewitz | Pioneering early book on crystal consciousness. |
| The Healing Power of Crystals | Magda Palmer | Useful handbook for the working crystal healer. |
| Crystal Power | Michael G. Smith | If your mind is open enough to consider the idea of 'relating' to a crystal, you may be surprised at the result, I use crystals as negative energy converters around my home and especially in my Therapy room. They are individuals, so respect that ! |
| Living in the light | Shakti Gawain | Inspirational book by one of the pioneers of "guided visualisation". |
| Tao and Longevity | Chu and Nan | Some rare secrets for the seekers of Life Extension. |
| The Sacred Journey - You and your Higher Self | Lazaris | The Channeled Wisdom of an extraterrestrial being of amazing insight and truly remarkable grasp of Human Psychology. Spirituality without martyrdom, without sickliness, without unnecessary sentiment or hypocrisy. |
| Psi and the Consciousness Explosion | Stuart Holroyd | Fine analysis of the exponential growth of Psychic awareness ansd spiritual journeying. |
| The way of Merlin | R.J.Stewart | A mapbook for Celtic magical workings. |
| Tibetan secrets of youth and vitality | Peter Kelder | If anyone knows the secrets of longevity, it's the Tibetans. A must have for the would be immortalist. |
| Sai baba - The Embodiment of Love | Peggy Mason and Ron Laing | Honestly written account of meetings with a God-being. |
| Why Animals don't get Heart Attacks but people do. | Matthias Rath | Nutritional approach to the management or avoidance of heart failure. Everyone should try this approach before or alongside conventional medical treatments. |
| Windows to our Children | Violet Oaklander | |
| Art as Therapy | (Ed.) Tessa Dailey | Useful introduction to the concept of self-healing and self-expression as means to recaliming one's identity. |
| The Dynamics of Creation | Anthony Storr | About the creative impulse and how the mind reaches into infinity to grab hold of the gems we bring down to earth when we express ourselves in art. Scholarly. |
| The Arts and Personal Growth | (Ed.) Malcolm Ross | Academic but pioneering nonetheless, this work gave validation to the concept of Art and Therapy in the mainstream. |
| Mental and Elemental Nutrients | Carl Pfeiffer | The book everyone should read before they accept the prescriptions of Drug-based Psychiatry. Pfeiffer is a Nobel prize winner. |
| An Alternative to Psychiatry | Tuula E. Tuormaa | Although not well written, the subject matter is a mine of information which needs exploring and using more by anyone interested in mental health. |
| Nutritional Influences on Mental Illness | Melvyn R. Werbach | Useful reference book, to dry to read in one go, but good for looking up. |
| Entering the Circle | Olga Kharitidi | I love this book ! The leaps of consciousness, paradigm shifts and spirit of adventure make it fun, and the serious message is that the spiritual level is more important than the chemical in healing mental illness. |
| Outside the Dream | Martin Stanton | Boring book on Lacan, the French Psychoanalyst (well, they can't all be good can they ?) |
| Creative Process in Gestalt Therapy | Joseph Zinker | Seminal book |
| The Ravaged Bridegroom | Marion Woodman | Illuminating, with magical perceptions about male and female relationships. |
| I and Thou | Martin Buber | Boring and pretentious, Buber was an intellectual heavyweight but overquoted perhaps... |
| Self and Others | R.D. Laing | Vital to the therapist's library, alas a whole generation of psychiatrists blamed everything on the mother because of him. Probably the cause of many people who were isolated from their families comitting suicide too, mixes good with bad though. |
| The Metamorphic Technique | Gaston St. Pierre and Debbie Boater | Boring offshoot of reflexology. |
| Hypnosis | Brian Roet | Humorous and easy reading, but the author leaves you feeling in charge of your own process. |
| How to read the Aura | W.D. Butler | A useful book for those who want to grow their psychic skills. Everyone needs to develop all the senses God gave them. |
| Reflexology Today | Doreen E. Bayly | Working handbook |
| You are a Rainbow | The University of the Trees Community | A little guide to loving yoursefl which would probably be next to impossible to find to buy these days, by a group of familes living free. |
| The Quest for Wilhelm Reich | Colin Wilson | Not quite as objective as I'd like. Wilson dumbs down on Reich's energy machines... if they're all a joke, why is it that people have sighted cloudbusters in secret airport locations ? Makes too much of his madness and not enough of his genius, and many people now might consider that his paranoia had been caused by the conspiracy against him. |
| The Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire | Hans Eysenck | It needed to be written, we cannot stay with uncle Sigmund forever, however it doesn't map out the dividing of the way between the humanistic and the conventional/scientific paths sufficiently. |
| Manipulation | Erwin Lausch | About a subject that is always interesting...for the therapist not the would be manipulator I mean !!! |
| Realms of the Human Unconscious | Stanislaw Grof | Just as bvreathing is the bridge between the conscious and unconscious, so Stanislaw Grof's work bridges from the scientific to the Shamanic, because of his amazing work with LSD he makes a scientific hypothesis for the mind beyond time and space. |
| Colour | Rudolf Steiner | His work with colour and children only goes to showe how depserately we need to reclaim art in our schools. |
| Lord of the Underworld - Jung and the Twentieth Century | Colin Wilson | Good. |
| Man and His Symbols | (Ed.) Karl Jung | You cannot live without reading this book, vital reading if you are planning to leave "flatland" and approach four dimensional existence ! |
| No more Secondhand Art - Awakening the Artist Within | Peter London | A guide whose title conveys some of the approach I have tried to use. Once you let go of self-judgement you can create ! |
| The Uses of Enchantment | Bruno Bettelheim | An amazing book on an amazing subject which needs to be explored even more before we understand our multidimensional selves. |
| Herbs that Heal | William A. R. Thomson | An excellent herbal book by a well known doctor who brings both clear scientific rationale and good narrative to the work. |
| The Roots of Health | Leon Petulengro | Gypsy lore.. a working herbal recipe book of healing recipes that have stood the test of time. A readable antidote to the prevalence of harmful conventional treatments. |
| Nature's medicines | Richard Lewis | Some herbal remedy information, using western herbs, could be complemented by chinese and ayurvedic guides. |