Selected Works & Influences

The ideas in the essay series titled In The Absence of Assurance are informed by the following works and thinkers.

Depth Psychology

Jung, C. G. The Undiscovered Self. Princeton University Press.

Jung, C. G. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Princeton University Press.

Embodiment, Trauma & the Nervous System

Levine, Peter A. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma. North Atlantic Books.

Levine, Peter A. In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness. North Atlantic Books.

Porges, Stephen W. The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation. W. W. Norton.

Maté, Gabor. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress. Knopf Canada.

Sociology

Mills, C. Wright. The Sociological Imagination. Oxford University Press.

Meaning & Human Psychology

Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. Beacon Press.

Maté, Gabor. The Myth of Normal. Knopf Canada.

Quoted Voices

Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. Dial Press.

King Jr., Martin Luther. Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Wiesel, Elie. Night.