This document provides a recommended reading list on various topics related to health and wellness. The topics covered include body-mind connection, identity and change, narcotic pain killers, narrative research and writing, neurology, pain, quantum physics, recovery, rehabilitation, and trauma. For each topic, several books and articles are listed as recommended further resources on that particular subject.

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RECOMMENDED READING
Body-Mind Connection
Crombez, Jean-Charles (2003). Ideas on Healing. In, CBC ideas
transcripts (2003). Toronto, ON: CBC Radio.
Pert, C., (1997). The molecules of emotion. New York, NY: Scribner.
Sternberg, E. M., (2001). The balance within: the science connecting
health and emotions. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company.
Identity and Change
Bridges, W. (1991). Managing Transitions. Reading, Massachusetts:
Perseus Books.
Ornelas, A. (1997). Pasantias and Social Participation: Participatory
Action-Research As a Way of Life. In, Smith, S. E., Willms, D. G., & Johnson, N.
A. (Eds.) (1997). Nurtured by knowledge: learning to do participatory action-
research. New York, NY: The Apex Press, pp.138 – 172.
Senge, P. (1990). The fifth discipline. New York, New York: Doubleday.
Smith, S. E. (1997). Deepening Participatory Action-Research. In, Smith,
S. E., Willms, D. G., & Johnson, N. A. (Eds.) (1997). Nurtured by knowledge:
learning to do participatory action-research. New York, NY: The Apex Press,
pp. 173 – 263.
Narcotic Pain Killers
Dalhousie, D. (2005, March). No one knew I was addicted. Chatelaine, pp.
124 – 130.
Zacny, J. P., and Gutierrez, S. (2003). Characterizing the subjective,
psychomotor, and physiological effects of oral oxycodone in non-drug abusing
volunteers. In, Psychopharmacology, 170, pp. 242 – 254.
Narrative Research and Writing
Coles, R. (1989). The call of stories: teaching and the moral imagination.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Gergen, K. (1999). An invitation to social construction. London: SAGE
Publications Ltd.
Glaser, B. G., and Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded
theory: strategies for research. Chicago, Illinois: Aldine Publishing Company.

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Mertens, D. (1998). Research methods in education and psychology.
Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Morgan, A. (2000). What is narrative therapy?. Adelaide, South Australia:
Dulwich Centre Publications.
Neuman, W. L. (1997). Social research methods: qualitative and
quantitative approaches. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Neumann, M. (1996). Collecting Ourselves at the End of the Century. In,
Ellis, C. and Bochner, A. P. (1996). Composing ethnography. Walnut Creek,
California: AltaMira Press, pp. 172 – 198.
Strauss, A. L. (1988). Teaching qualitative research methods courses.
Journal of qualitative studies in education: Volume 1, pp. 91 – 106.
van Manen, M. (1997). Researching lived experience. London, Ontario,
Canada: The Althouse Press.
White, M., and Epston, D. (1990). Narrative means to therapeutic ends.
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.
Neurology
Doidge, N. (2007). The brain that changes itself. New York, New York:
Penguin Group.
Ramachandran, V. S., and Blakeslee, S. (1998). Phantoms in the brain.
New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Sacks, O. (1998). A leg to stand on. New York, NY: Touchstone Books.
Sacks, O. (1988). The man who mistook his wife for a hat. New York, NY:
Touchstone.
Stuss, D. T. (1991). Disturbances of Self-Awareness after Frontal System
Damage. In, Prigatano, G. P., and Schacter, D. L. (Eds.) (1991). Awareness of
deficit after brain injury: Clinical and theoretical issues. New York, New York:
Oxford University Press, Inc., pp. 63 – 83.
Pain
Jackson, M. (2002). Pain: the science and culture of why we hurt.
Toronto: Vintage Canada.
Quantum Physics
Braden, G. (2007). The Divine matrix. New York, NY: Hay House, Inc.

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Oschman, J. (2003). Energy medicine in therapeutics and human
performance. London: Butterworth Heinemann.
Zukav, G. (1979). The dancing wu li masters. New York, NY: William
Morrow & company, Inc.
Recovery
Becker, S. (2004). I had brain surgery, what’s your excuse? New York,
NY: Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
Bolen, J. S. (1996). Close to the bone: life-threatening illness and the
search for meaning. New York, NY: Touchstone.
Callwood, J. (2000). The man who lost himself: the Terry Evensham story.
Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Crombez, Jean-Charles (2003). Ideas on Healing. In, CBC ideas
transcripts (2003). Toronto, ON: CBC Radio.
Ferguson, B. F. (1995). The breaking of the stone: A phenomenological
study of one woman’s journey with life-threatening illness. North York, Ontario:
Captus Press Inc.
Frankl, V. E. (2000). Man’s search for ultimate meaning. New York, NY:
Basic Books.
Frankl, V. E. (1959). Man’s search for meaning. New York, NY: Pocket
Books.
Lougheed, V. (2008). Be still. Calgary. Alberta: Palabras Press.
Meili, T. (2003). I am the central park jogger. New York, NY: Scribner
Moore, A. (1990). Broken arrow boy. Kansas City, Missouri: Landmark
Editions, Inc.
Myss, C. (1997). Anatomy of the spirit. New York, New York: Three
Rivers Press.
Myss, C. (2002). Sacred contracts. New York, New York: Three Rivers
Press.
Myss, C. (1997). Why people don’t heal and how they can. New York,
New York: Three Rivers Press.

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Rehabilitation
Levers, L. L. (1997). Counseling as a recursive dynamic: process and
relationship, meaning and empowerment. In, Maki, D. R., and Riggar, T. F.,
(Eds). Rehabilitation counseling: professional and practice. New York, NY:
Springer Publishing Company, Inc., pp. 170 – 182.
Prigatano, G. P. (1999). Principles of neuropsychological rehabilitation.
New York, New York: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Shulman, L. (1992). The skills of helping individuals, families and groups.
Itasca, Illinois: F. E. Peacock.
Wright, G. N. (1980). Total rehabilitation. Boston: Little, Brown and
Company.
Trauma
Andreasen, N. C. (1985). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. In H. I. Kaplan
and B. J. Sadock (Eds.). Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry, 4th ed..
Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, pp. 918 – 924.
Herman, J. (1992). Trauma and recovery. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Kardiner, A. and Spiegal, H. (1947). War, stress and neurotic illness. New
York: Hoeber.
Lifton, R. J. (1980). The Concept of Survivor. In, Dinsdale, J. E. (Ed.),
Survivors, victims and perpetrators: essays on the nazi holocaust. New York:
Hemisphere, pp. 113 – 126.
Lovelace, L., and McGrady, M. (1980). Ordeal. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel.
Pitman, R.K., van der Kolk, B.A., Orr, S.P., et al. (1990). Naloxone-
reversible analgesic response to combat-related stimuli in post-traumatic stress
disorder: a pilot study. Archives of General Psychiatry 47, pp. 541 – 547.
Veterans Affairs Canada (2005, August 15). Filling the gaps at The Centre
– Veterans Affairs Canada – VAC Clients. [On-Line]. Available:
http://www.vac.acc.gc.ca/clients/sub.cfm?source=forces/cfcentre.
Wilkerson, B. (2003, May 29). Stress and the military. [Letter to the Editor]
The Toronto Sun. In, Wilkerson, B. (2003, July 9). Global Business and
Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health: Notes for remarks by Bill
Wilkerson, roundtable Co-founder and CEO to Canadian Forces Operational
Stress Injury Social Support Coordination Conference. [On-Line]. Available:
http://www.mentalhealthrundtable.ca/oct_2003_pdfs/CAFSpeech_
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Wilkerson, B. (2003, July 9). Global Business and Economic Roundtable
on Addiction and Mental Health: Notes for remarks by Bill Wilkerson, roundtable
Co-founder and CEO to Canadian Forces Operational Stress Injury Social
Support Coordination Conference. [On-Line]. Available:
http://www.mentalhealthrundtable.ca/oct_2003_pdfs/CAFSpeech_
%20July92003.pdf
Worthington, P. (2003, May 27). Join the army, live with stress. Toronto
Sun. In, Wilkerson, B. (2003, July 9). Global Business and Economic Roundtable
on Addiction and Mental Health: Notes for remarks by Bill Wilkerson, roundtable
Co-founder and CEO to Canadian Forces Operational Stress Injury Social
Support Coordination Conference. [On-Line]. Available:
http://www.mentalhealthrundtable.ca/oct_2003_pdfs/CAFSpeech_
%20July92003.pdf.