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== Bibliography ==
Faivre, Antoine; Needleman, Jacob, eds. (1992). Modern Esoteric Spirituality. World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest, 21. New York: Crossroad. ISBN 978-0-8245-1145-6.
Flournoy, Théodore (1900). From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with Glossolalia. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Hanegraaff, Wouter J. (1998). New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-11035-9.
Hanegraaff, Wouter J. (2012). Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-02112-9.
Leadbeater, C. W. (1927). The Chakras (PDF). Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House.
Partridge, Christopher (2004). The Re-Enchantment of the West, Vol. 1: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture. London: T&T Clark. ISBN 978-0-567-08408-8.
Campbell, Colin (1972). "The Cult, the Cultic Milieu and Secularization". A Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain. 5: 119–136.
Rush, M. J. (2016). "The Contribution of Western Esotericism to Transpersonal Psychology". Transpersonal Psychology Review. 18 (1): 32–43. doi:10.53841/bpstran.2016.18.1.32.
Singleton, Mark (2010). Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539535-8.
Pittenger, David J. (1993). "Measuring the MBTI and Coming Up Short". Review of Educational Research. 63 (4): 467–488. doi:10.3102/00346543063004467.
Moreira-Almeida, Alexander (2005). "History of 'Spiritist madness' in Brazil (1900–1950)". History of Psychiatry. 16 (3): 5–25. doi:10.1177/0957154X05044602. PMID 15981363.
Lucchetti, Giancarlo; Lucchetti, Alessandra G.; Bassi, Roberta M.; Nasri, Fatima; Neto, José T. (2012). "Spiritist psychiatric hospitals in Brazil: integration of conventional psychiatric treatment and spiritual complementary therapy". Journal of Religion and Health. 51 (3): 931–944. doi:10.1007/s11013-011-9239-6. PMID 22052248.
Kienle, G. S. (2013). "Anthroposophic Medicine: An Integrative Medical System Originating in Europe". Global Advances in Health and Medicine. 2 (4): 20–31. doi:10.7453/gahmj.2012.087. PMC 3865373. PMID 24416705.
Sturt, Jackie; Ali, Saima; Robertson, Wendy; Metcalfe, David; Grove, Amy; Bourne, Claire; Bridle, Chris (2012). "Neurolinguistic programming: a systematic review of the effects on health outcomes". British Journal of General Practice. 62 (604): e757–e764. doi:10.3399/bjgp12X658287. PMC 3481516. PMID 23211179.
Alexander, Morgan; Schnipke, Brent (2020). "The Enneagram: A Primer for Psychiatry Residents". American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal. 15 (3): 2–5. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp-rj.2020.150301.
Lederer, Peter Scott (2023). "H. P. Blavatsky and Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and Theosophy on Psychomagic in El Topo and The Holy Mountain". In Witte, Michael (ed.). ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 73–91. doi:10.1515/9781399505963-008. ISBN 978-1-3995-0596-3.
Konkolÿ Thege, Barna; Petroll, Carla; Rivas, Carlos; Scholtens, Salome (2021). "The Effectiveness of Family Constellation Therapy in Improving Mental Health: A Systematic Review". Family Process. 60 (2): 409–423. doi:10.1111/famp.12636. PMID 33528854.
Wegner, Daniel M. (2017). The Illusion of Conscious Will. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-53492-5.
Sommer, Andreas (2012). "Psychical research and the origins of American psychology: Hugo Münsterberg, William James and Eusapia Palladino". History of the Human Sciences. 25 (2): 23–44. doi:10.1177/0952695112439376. PMC 3552602. PMID 23355763.
Ellenberger, Henri F. (1970). The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-01694-5.
Plaisance, Christopher A. (2015). "Israel Regardie and the Psychologization of Esoteric Discourse". Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism. 3: 5–54.
Albanese, Catherine L. (2007). A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11089-0.
Foxen, Anya P. (2020). Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Imagination of Yoga. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-008220-8.
Singleton, Mark (2005). "Salvation through Relaxation: Proprioceptive Therapy and its Relationship to Yoga". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 20 (3): 289–304. doi:10.1080/13537900500249780.