The Being and Life Series

The Main Ontological Sources

Ontological sensitivity is where one finds it. The list below is the main books I used for quotations in the Being and Life Series. These books vary in both the quality and the quantity of their insights, with the more important books listed first.

The Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, (2-volume set) Out of print.
 

R. D. Laing, The Divided Self
 

“Renee,” The Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl
 

William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
 

Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People and Mysticism: The Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
 

Rollo May, Ernest Angel, and Henri F. Ellenberger, Existence: A New Dimension in Psychiatry and Psychology
 

Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person
 

J. W. N. Sullivan, Beethoven: His Spiritual Development and Emil Ludwig, Beethoven: Life of a Conqueror
 

Malcolm L. Hayward, M.D. and J. Edward Taylor, M.D., “A Schizophrenic Patient Describes the Action of Intensive Psychotherapy,” The Psychiatric Quarterly (April 1956).
 

J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey
 

Erich Fromm, Beyond the Chains of Illusion
 

Kenneth Keniston: The Uncommitted: Alienated Youth in America
 

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
 

The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh
 

Colin Wilson, The Outsider and New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution
 

Seymour Krim, Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer
 

The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, ed. Diana Trilling
 

Mabel Dodge Luhan, Lorenzo in Taos
 

Joseph Nuttin, Psychoanalysis and Personality: A Dynamic Theory of Normal Personality
 

Henry David Thoreau, The Portable Thoreau (Walden)
 

R. D. Laing and Aaron Esterson, Sanity, Madness and the Family
 

Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud: The Formative Years and the Great Discoveries
 

Matthew Josephson, Stendhal; or, The Pursuit of Happiness
 

Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson, Passionate Pilgrim: The Life of Vincent van Gogh
 

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
 

Van Wyck Brooks, The Ordeal of Mark Twain