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Association for Process Psychology -- Available Resources

Books by Members:

Griffin, David Ray, ed. Archetypal Process: Self and Divine in Whitehead, Jung, and Hillman. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1989.

_____. Unsnarling the World Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem University of California Press, 1998.

Roy, David E. Toward a Process Psychology: A Model of Integration. Fresno, CA, Adobe Creations Press, 2000.


Bibliography: 

Process Thought, Psychology, and Psychotherapy

Provided by the Center for Process Studies

We are aware that this bibliography is incomplete. We are listing this so that we can generate the additions and corrections we need.

Armstrong-Buck, Susan. “Nonhuman Experience: A Whiteheadian Analysis.” Process Studies 18, no.1 (Spring 1989): 1-18.

Bak, John S. “Christ’s Jungian Shadow in The Last Temptation.” In God’s Struggler: Religion in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1996), 153-68.

Blatner, Adam. “Moreno’s ‘Process Philosophy’.” Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama and Sociometry 38, no.3 (Fall 1985): 133-36.

Brink, Marian. “Alcholics Anonymous: A Model for Process Theology.” (unpubl.)

Brizee, Robert. “Process Relational Psychotherapy: A Creative Process of Transforming Relationships.” (unpubl.) [Psychotherapy Conf.]

_____. “Some Practical Implication of Process Thought for Psychotherapy.” (unpubl.)

Brown, Norman O. Life Against Death. New York: Vintage Books,1959, Ch. 16.

Browning, Don S. Atonement and Psychotherapy (Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press, 1966), pp. 161-67.

_____. Religious Thought and the Modern Psychologies. Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1987.

Buchanan, John H. “The Fourth Force.” Ch. II in Universal Feeling: Whitehead and Psychology. Ph.D. Dissertation. Emory University, 1994

_____.“Universal Feeling: Whitehead and Psychology.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Emory University, 1994.

Cobb, John B., Jr. “Why the Process Psychotherapy Institute is Needed.” The Creative Advance 2, no.1 (Spring 1984): 1-2.

_____. “Process Thought and Psychotherapy Conference.” Newsletter of the Center for Process Studies 17:1 (Winter/Spring 1993): 2/6-7).

_____. “Psychotherapy in a Christian Whiteheadian Perspective.” (unpubl.) [revised 1992]

_____. “Wholeness Centered in Spirit.” Spirit Centered Wholeness: Beyond the Psychology of Self, eds. H. Newton Maloney, et al. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988), 225-45.

Cowen, Michael. “Splits and Knots.” (unpubl.)

Crawford, Robin C. “Accompanying People through the First Three Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous” Ph.D. Disseration. School of Theology at Claremont, 1990. [Process Theology]

Early, Joseph E. “Evolutionary Biology, Physiological Psychology, Process Philosophy.” (unpubl.)

Edwins, Ken. “Systemic Family therapy: An Approach for Pastoral Psychotherapy.” (unpubl.) [Psychotherapy Conf.]

Eisendrath, Craig R. The Unifying Moment: The Psychological Philosophy of William James and A. N. Whitehead. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971.

Fetz, Reto L. “On the Formation of Ontological Concepts: The Relationship Between the Theories of Whitehead and Piaget.” Process Studies 17:4 (Winter 1988): 262-272.

Flynn, Mark. “Conflicting Views on the Importance of Emotion to Human Development and Growth: Piaget and Whitehead.” Interchange 20, no.4 (1995): 365-81.

Gallagher, William J. “Some Opening Remarks about Mind and Body.” (unpubl.)

_____. “Whitehead’s Theoretical Physiology and the Direction of the Neurosciences.” (unpubl.)

_____. “Whitehead’s Theory of the Human Person.” Ph.D. Dissertation. New School for Social Research, 1974.

Gibson, Leonard. “From Therapeia to Psychotherapy: The Intertwining Histories of Philosophy and Therapy.” (unpubl.)

_____. “The LSD Experience: A Whiteheadian Interpretation.” Process Studies 7:2 (Summer 1977): 97-107.

Greisinger, Donald W. “The Physics of Behavioral Systems.” Behavioral Science 19:1 (Jan. 1974): 35-51.

_____. “The Physics of Motivation and Choice.” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC-8:12 (Dec. 1982): 902-07.

Griffin, David Ray, ed. Archetypal Process: Self and Divine in Whitehead, Jung, and Hillman. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1989.

Grof, Stanislav. “Healing Potential of Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness: Observations from Psychedelic Therapy and Holotropic Breathwork.” An Esalen Institute Conference Paper [Transpersonal and Process Thought Conference: March 17-22, 1996]: 1-43. (Unpub).

Gunter, Pete A. Y. “Whitehead, Bergson, Freud: Suggestions Toward a Theory of Laughter.” (unpubl.)

Hartshorne, Charles. “Armchair and Laboratory: A Philosopher Looks at Psychology.” Newsletter. Division 24, American Psychological Association 2, no.3 (1968): 1-4.

_____. “The Parallel Development of Method in Physics and Psychology.” Philosophy of Science 1, no.4 (Oct. 1934): 446-59.

_____. The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1968 [1934].

_____. “Physics and Psychics: The Place of Mind in Nature.” Mind in Nature, eds., John B. Cobb, Jr. and David R. Griffin. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1977, pp. 89-96.

_____. “Psychology and the Unity of Knowledge.” Southern Journal of Philosophy 5, no.2 (Summer 1967): 81-90. [H bib #277]

_____. “Sensation in Psychology and Philosophy.” Southern Journal of Philosophy 1, no.2 (Summer 1963): 3-14.

_____. “Sense Quality and Feeling Tone.” Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Philosophy, ed. Gilbert Ryle (London: Oxford University Press, 1931), 168-72.

_____. “The Social Theory of Feelings.” Southern Journal of Philosophy 3, no.2 (Summer 1965): 87-93.

Hoffman, John. “The Psychodynamics of a Nonmoralistic Morality.” Ethical Confrontation in Counseling, pp. 90-111.

Jackson, Gordon E. “Process Theology and Ego Psychology.” (unpubl.,PM 8:2)

_____. “Time, Neurosis, and Freedom.” (unpubl.)

Johnson, Allison H. “A. N. Whitehead’s Theory of Intuition.” Journal of General Psychology 37 (1947): 61-66.

_____. “The Psychology of A. N. Whitehead.” Journal of General Psychology 32 (1945): 175-212.

Johnston, Charles M., M.D. Necessary Wisdom: Meeting the Challenge of a New Cultural Maturity. Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts, 1991.

Keeling, L. Bryant. “Feeling as a Metaphysical Category: Hartshorne from an Analytical View.” Process Studies 6:1 (Spring 1976): 51-66.

_____, and Robert L. Moore. “The Psychology of Hartshorne’s Theism.” (unpubl.)

Keller, Catherine. “. . . to deepen the ocean of feeling . . .” (Untitled and unpubl.)

_____. “Teology of the Psyche in the Work of Whitehead and of Jung.” (unpubl.)

_____. “Wholeness and the King’s Men.” Spirit Centered Wholeness: Beyond the Psychology of Self, eds., H. Newton Maloney, et al. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988, pp. 61-77.

Keiller, Barbara. “A Process Relational Vision of God Enhances Our Capacity for Intimacy with Each Other and with the Cosmos, Part 1.” Creative Transformation 1:1 (Summer 1991): 8-11. Part II, 1:2 (Fall 1991): 7-10.

Lapsley, James N. “Process Philosophy and Personality Theory.” (unpubl.)

Lewis, William C. Why People Change: The Psychology of Influence. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.

McCreary, John K. “A. N. Whitehead’s Theory of Feeling.” Journal of General Psychology 41 (1949): 67-78.

Meisler, Jules. Effective Psychotherapy for Patient and Therapist. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991. [Ch. 5 influenced by Bergson/Whitehead.]

Mickey, Paul A. “Process Psychotherapy: Retrospect and Prospect.” (unpubl.)

Moore, Mary Elizabeth Mullino. “Co-Dependance Theory: Heuristic or Reductionistic?” (unpubl.) [Psychotherapy Conf.]

Moss, Randy K. “An Introduction to Whitehead’s Process Psychology: A Positive Postmodern Perspective.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Brigham Young University, 1996.

Mowrey, Merlyn Elizabeth. “Extracting a Personality Theory from A. N. Whitehead’s Process Philosophy.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Temple Univ., 1988.

Muray, Leslie A. “Process Thought and Psychology.” An Introduction to the Process Understanding Of Science, Society And The Self. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988, pp. 75-94.

Neville, Robert. “The Psychiatrist: A Philosophic Dialogue.” (unpubl.)

Oden, Thomas C. “Process Analogies.” Kerygma And Counseling (San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1978), 134-41.

Olds, Linda E. Metaphors of Interrelatedness: Toward a Systems Theory of Psychology. Suny Series, Alternative in Psychology. Ed. Michael A. Wallach. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Paul, Robert A. “Psychoanalysis in Anthropology: The Missing Link?” [???]

Powell, Robert G. “Alternate Modes of Consciousness: A Whiteheadian Approach.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Fordham University, 1974.

Pribram, Karl H. “How Is It That Sensing So Much We Can Do So Little?” [???]

_____. “Problems Concerning the Structure of Consciousness.” Consciousness and the Brain, eds. Gordon Globus et al. (New York: Plenum Publishing Co., 1976), 297-313.

_____. “Self-Consciousness and Intentionality.” Consciousness and Self-Regulation, Vol. 1, eds., Gary E. Schwartz and David Shapiro (New York: Plenum Publishing Co., 1976), 51-100.

_____. “Toward a Holonomic Theory of Perception.” Gestalttheorie in der Modernen Psychologie, eds. Ertel, Kemmler, Stadler, 1975, pp. 161-84.

_____, Marc Nuwer, and Robert J. Baron. “The Holographic Hypothesis of Memory Structure in Brain Function and Perception.”

Quiring, John. “Ego, Identity Politics, and Beyond: A Process Path.” An Esalen Institute Conference Paper [Transpersonal and Process Thought Conference: March 17-22, 1996]: 1-28. (Unpub.).

Regan, Thomas J., S.J. “The Matrix of Personality: A Whiteheadian Corroboration of Harry Stack Sullivan’s Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry.” Process Studies 19, no.3 (Fall 1990): 189-98.

Roy, David E. “Clinical Use of Whitehead's Anthropology,” Process Studies 29, no.1 (Spring 2000)

_____. “The Correlation Between Gestalt Theory and Whitehead’s Process Philosophy.” (unpubl.)

_____. “Dominant Occasion, Consciousness, and Physiological Psychology.” (unpubl.)

_____. “Psychotherapy for the Soul.” [Introduction] and “Psyche as Soul, Endlessly Emerging from the Sea” [Ch. 1] (unpubl.)

_____. “The Spirit in Therapy.” (unpubl.)

_____. “Subjective Form and EEG Rhythms: A Question for Dr. Sperry.” (unpubl.)

_____. “Spirituality and Psychotherapy: A Common Ground Across Boundaries.” The Journal of Pastoral Care 46, no.2 (Summer 1992): 153-61.

_____. Toward a Process Psychology: A Model of Integration. Fresno, CA, Adobe Creations Press, 2000.

_____. “Toward a Process Therapy: An Integration of Perception and Concrescence from Whitehead with the Self Modes and Gestalt Formation from Gestalt Therapy.” Ph.D. Dissertation. School of Theology at Claremont, 1978.

_____. “The Value of the Dialogue Between Process Thought and Psychotherapy.” Process Studies 14, no.3 (Fall 1985): 158-74.

_____. “The View From the Choir: Psyche gives Birth to the Self.” (unpubl.) [Psychotherapy Conference.]

_____. “Whitehead and Gestalt Therapy: An Initial Integration.” (unpubl.)

Ricards, Philip. “Post-Woodbridge Selective Bibliography of Books and Articles at the Center for Process Studies [on] Process Thought and Psychotherapy.” (in CPS Library desk file)

_____. “Psychotherapeutical Bibliography from Woodbridge Bibliography.” (unpubl, in CPS Library desk file)

Sageser, Philip S. and Bruce D. Forman. “Toward a Theory of Muddle-Headed Therapy.” The Psychotherapy Bulletin 24, no.3 (Fall 1989): 9-13.

Sherburne, Donald W. “Whitehead’s Psychological Physiology.” Southern Journal of Philosophy 7 (1969): 401-407.

Simmons, James R. “The Problem of Human Individuality with Emphasis on the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Columbia University, 1955.

Smith, Archie, Jr. The Relational Self: Ethics and Therapy From A Black Church Perspective. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1982.

Sperry, Willard. “A Brief Tribute to the Memory of A.N. Whitehead.” (unpubl.)

_____. “Mental Phenomena as Causal Determinants in Brain Function.” (unpubl.)

_____. “Science and Moral Judgment.” (unpubl.)

Sponheim, Paul. Review: Brian W. Grant, Schizophrenia: A Source of Social Insight. Process Studies 7, no.2 (Summer 1977): 121-24.

Viney, Wayne. “Charles Hartshorne’s Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation.” The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne, ed. Lewis E. Hahn (La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1991), 91-112.

Walsh, Roger and Frances Vaughan. “On Transpersonal Definitions.” The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 25, no.2 (1993): 200-207.

Weber, Pearle L. “Significance of Whitehead’s Philosophy for Psychology.” Personalist 21 (1940): 178-87.

Whittemore, Robert C. “The Metaphysics of Whitehead’s Feelings.” Tulane Studies in Philosophy 10 (1961): 109-13.

Wieman, Henry N. and Regina Westcott. Normative Psychology of Religion. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1937.

Williams, Daniel Day. “Therapy and Salvation: The Dimensions of Human Need.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 15, no.4 (May 1960): 303-17.

Wolf, George. “Psychological Physiology from the Standpoint of a Physiological Psychologist.” Process Studies 11, no.4 (Winter 1981): 274-91.

_____. “The Place of the Brain in an Ocean of Feelings.” Existence and Actuality, eds., John B. Cobb, Jr. and Franklin I. Gamwell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 167-84.

Wratchford, Eugene P. Brain Research and Personhood: A Philosophical Theological Inquiry. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1979.

[SEE ALSO bibliographies on “Process Thought and Jung,” “Process Thought and the Self,” and “Process Thought and Pastoral Care.”]