Resources

Recommended reading

• Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life by Thomas Moore

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

• The Hero’s Journey by Joseph Campbell

• Trauma and the Soul: A Psycho-spiritual Approach to Human Development and Its Interruption by Donald Kalsched

• The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel

• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine

• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help you Find and Keep Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

• Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

• A Blue Fire by James Hillman

• Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung

• Psychotherapy Grounded in the Feminine Principle by Barbara Stevens Sullivan

• The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

• Breath: the New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor

• Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

• Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie

• Jung’s Map of the Soul by Murray Stein

• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

• Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective by Mark Epstein

• The Universe in You: An Inner Journey Guided by Rumi with translations by Omid Arabian

• Making Space: Creating a Home Meditation Practice by Thich Nhat Hanh

Publications

• Tending Soul in Connection to Spirit: A Depth Psychological Inquiry Into Transcendence and Spiritual Bypassing by Maura Tousignant. Master’s degree thesis written at Pacifica Graduate Institute, available to read on ProQuest.

• Sufis, Sheikhs, and Semazans: A Study of Persian Sufi Poetry in Verse and Ritual by Maura Tousignant. Undergraduate thesis written for the Distinguished Majors Program in Comparative Literature, focusing on Mohammad Jalaluddin Rumi’s verses in Divan-e Shams-e Tabriz and the ecstatic state of whirling, available at the University of Virginia.

• The Lily: Transforming Images of Magical Realism into Dance by Maura Tousignant. Written for the U.Va. Center for Undergraduate Excellence as part of a research grant for a project inspired by the Iranian novella Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur, on transforming literary imagery to movement through Persian classical dance and Sufi ritual whirling.