Continuing Education Bibliography


Summary Overview Book Report Submission Bibliography


Bibliography for MHTP Continuing Education Reading January 2007
(please send additional suggestions to mhtp@mhtp.org)

Books that are listed on the MHTP required reading list that were not used for certification book reviews (in the current Student Handbook) may be read and reported-on for CEUs.
Music & Healing
  • Janalea Hoffman, Rhythmic Medicine, Music with a Purpose, Jamillan Press, 1995.
  • Dan Schneck and Dorita Berger, The Music Effect: Music Physiology and Clinical Applications, Jessica Kingsley
  • Brendt, Joachim-Ernst, Nada Brahma
  • Brendt, Joachim-Ernst, The World is Sound
  • Brendt, Joachim-Ernst, The Third Ear
  • Blofold, John, Mantras: Sacred Words of Power
  • Bonny, Helen, Music and Your Mind: Listening With a New Consciousness
  • Hernandez, Ana, The Sacred Art of Chant: preparing to practice
  • Mitchell Gaynor, Sounds of Healing, Broadway Books, NY, 1999.
  • Kay Gardner, Sounding the Inner Landscape,Caduceus Publications, 1990.
  • Kay Gardner, Music as Medicine, Sounds True, Boulder CO (6 cassettes, similar content as above book)
  • Olivea Dewhurst-Maddock, The Book of Sound Therapy, Simon & Schuster, Inc.
  • Kate and Richard Mucci, The Healing Sound of Music (with CD), Findhorn Press, 2000.
  • John Beaulieu, Music and Sound in the Healing Arts, Station Hill Press, 1987.
  • Don Campbell, Music and Miracles
  • Don Campbell, Introduction to the Musical Brain
  • Don Campbell, Music, Physician for Times to Come
  • Don Campbell, The Roar of Silence
  • John M. Ortiz, Handbook of Music Psychology, Samuel Weiser, Inc.
  • Hal A. Lingerman, The Healing Energies of Music, Quest Books.
  • Anthony Store, Music and the Mind, Ballantine Books.
  • Joshua Leeds, Sonic Alchemy, InnerSong Press.
  • Cencetta M. Tomaino (Ed.)., Clinical Applications of Music in Neurological Rehabilitation
  • Borelli, MD, & Heidt, P. (1981). Therapeutic Touch: A Book of Readings. New York: Springer.
  • Carlson, R. & Shield, B. (1989). Healers on Healing. Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher, Inc.
  • Fowells, Robert (2000). Chant Made Easy. Brewster, NY, Paraclete Press.
  • Keyes, Laurel Elizabeth. (1973). Toning, The Creative Power of the Voice. DeVorss & Co.
  • Donald A. Hodges (Editor), Handbook of Music Psychology
  • Mark Rider, The Rhythmic Language of Health and Disease
  • Journal of Music Therapy, Music in the Control of Human Pain, 1989, Vol. 8, No. 1, 47-60
  • Ortiz, John M. (1997). The Tao of Music: Sound Psychology, Samuel Weiser, Inc.
  • Drinker, Sophie, Music & Women: The Story of Woman and Their Relation to Music
  • Gimbel, Theo, Form, Sound, Colour and Healing
  • Godwyn, Jocelyn, A Sourcebook of the Pythagorean Tradition in Music
  • Godwyn, Jocelyn, Music, Magic, Mysticism
  • Godwyn, Jocelyn, Harmonics of Heaven and Earth
  • Godwyn, Jocelyn, The Mystery of the Seven Vowels
  • Goldman, Jonathan, Healing Sounds
  • Goldman, Jonathan, The Power of Harmonics
  • Goldman, Jonathan, In Search of the Lost Chord
  • Goldman, Jonathan, Awakening the Lost Chord
  • Gutheil, Emil A., Music and Your Emotions
  • Khan, Hazarat Inayat, The Mysticism of Sound: The Music of Life, Sufi Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Maman, Fabian, The Role of Music in the 21st Century (and other titles)
  • Russill Paul, The Yoga of Sound
  • Schullian & Schoen, Music and Medicine
  • Steiner, Rudolf, The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone
  • Stewart, R.J., Music, Power, Harmony, Starling Publishing, NY
  • Tame, David, The Secret Power of Music
  • Tomatis, Alfred E.,The Conscious Ear: A Life of Transformation Through Listening
  • Watson and Drury, Healing Music (1987)
  • Werbeck, Valborg, Uncovering the Voice, Rudolf Steiner Press, London
  • June Leslie Wieder, Song of the Spine
Healing & Self-Care
  • Gerber, R., Vibrational Medicine, Bear & Co., Santa Fe, NM
  • Pert, Candace, Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d.
  • Peggy Brill, The Core Program
  • Diamond, J., Behavioral Kinesiology, New York, 1979
  • Krieger, D. (1987). Living the Therapeutic Touch: Healing as a Lifestyle.
  • Krieger, D., & Kunz, D. (2004). The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch.
  • Horvath, Judith (2002). Playing (less) Hurt. www.playinglesshurt.com
  • Young, Jacqueline, The Healing Path. Thorsons, London, 2001
  • Kaptchuk, Ted, The Web That Has No Weaver. Congdon & Weed, NY, 1983
  • Kushi, Michio, Natural Healing Through Macrobiotics. Japan Publications, Tokyo, 1978
  • Mitchell, Emily, Your Body’s Energy. Duncan Baird Publishers, London, 1998
  • McIntyre, Anne, Flower Power. Henry Holt & Co., NY, 1996
  • Wagner, Susan, A Doctor’s Guide to Therapeutic Touch. NY, Berkley Publishing Group, 1996
  • Myss, Caroline & Shealy, Norman, The Creation of Health. Stillpoint Publishing, Walpole, NH, 1988 (and other CDs and books by Caroline Myss on Healing)
  • Myss, C.M. (1993). The creation of health: The emotional, psychological, and spiritual responses that promote health and healing. New York: Three Rivers Press.
  • James Oschman, Energy Medicine
  • Ram Dass, & Bush, M. (1992). Compassion in action: Setting out on the path of service. New York: Bell Tower
  • Matthews, Caitlin, Singing the Soul Back Home. Element Books, London
  • McTaggert, Lynne, The Field. Harper Collins, 2002
  • Adler, Felten, Felten, Cohen, Psychoneuroimmunology. Editorial Reviews, from The New England Journal of Medicine, March 1, 2001
  • Pelletier, Kenneth, Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer. Dell, NY, 1977
  • Samuels, Mike & Nancy, Seeing with the Mind’s Eye. Random House, NY. 1975
  • Aldridge, David, Health, the Individual, and Integrated Medicine. Jessica Kinsley Publishers, London and NY, 2004
  • Miles, Pamela, Reiki: a Comprehensive Guide
  • Wolff, Otto, Home Remedies: Herbal and Homeopathic Treatments for Use at Home. Anthroposophical Press, Hudson, NY
Aging, Death & Dying
  • Address, Richard F and Person, Hara E: That You May Live Long: Jewish Perspectives on Caregiving
  • Albom, Mitch: Tuesdays With Morrie
  • Ahronheim, Judith and Doron, Weber: Final Passages
  • Boerstler & Kornfeld: Life to Death: Harmonizing the Transition
  • Bolen, J: Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning
  • Byock, Ira: The Four Things That Matter Most
  • Byock, Ira: Dying Well
  • Cleary, Thomas, Living and Dying with Grace: Counsels of Hadrat ‘Ali
  • Childs-Gowell, Elaine, A.R.N.P., Ph.D., Good Grief Rituals: Tools for Healing
  • Dalai Lama: Advice on Dying
  • Dancing Heart, Maria: The Last Adventure of Life
  • Fatteh, Abdullah: At Journey’s End
  • Hampton, Charles: The Transition Called Death
  • Irish, D., Lundquist, K and Nelson, V.J.: Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death and Grief
  • Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth: On Death and Dying
  • Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth: Living With Death and Dying
  • Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth: Death Is Of Vital Importance
  • Levine, Stephen and Ondrea: Healing Into Life and Death
  • Levine, Stephen and Ondrea: A Year To Live
  • Moody, Raymond and Arcangel, Dianne: Life After Loss
  • Moss, Richard: The Sacred Art of Dying (audio-tapes)
  • Richard Groves and Henriette Anne Klauser. The American Book of Dying
  • Nuland, Sherwin: How We Die
  • Osho: Death – The Greatest Fiction: The Fear of Death, (audio-CD)
  • Peck, M. Scott, M.D: Denial of the Soul: Spiritual and Medical Perspectives on Euthanasia and Mortality
  • Rinpoche, Sogya1: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
  • Ritchie, George: Ordered To Return
  • Rusnak, Kathleen J: Because You’ve Never Died Before (audio-tapes)
  • Schroeder-Sheker, Therese: Transitus: A Blessed Death in the Modern World
  • Sharkey, Frances, M.D: A Parting Gift
  • William H. Thomas, M.D., What Are Old People For?
  • Webb, Marilyn, The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life
  • Weenolsen, Patricia, Ph.D: The Art of Dying: How to Leave This World with Dignity And Grace, At Peace with Yourself and Your Loved Ones
  • Weenolsen, Patricia, Ph.D: Transcendence of Loss Over the Life Span
  • Wilber, Ken: Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
  • Wooten-Green, Ronald, When the Dying Speak
  • Wilson, Ian: The After Death Experience: The Physics of the Non-Physical
  • Ram Das, Still Here
  • Eknath Easwaran, Dialogue with Death
  • Jacqueline Marcell, Elder Rage or Take My Father…..Please.
  • Oliver, S.L. (1998). What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living. New York: Haworth Pastoral Press.
  • Thomas, L.E., & Eisenhandler, S.A. (Eds.). (1999). Religion, belief, and spirituality in late life. New York: Springer.
  • James Hillman. The Force of Character and the Lasting Life