# Master Sources for the Series

- Link: https://psychologyforeveryone.com/guide/sources/
- Published: 2026-10-24T07:45:05+00:00
- Author: myadvisorfriend@gmail.com

This list names public sites and databases, together with the
 standard books and
official pages that sit behind each chapter. Links are starting points; they change,
and they do not replace a clinician.

### Official health pages —⏎  every chapter

 * WHO mental health:
    https://www.who.int/health-topics/mental-health
 * WHO depression fact sheet:
    https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/
   depression
 * WHO mental health in emergencies:
    https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/
   detail/mental-health-in-emergencies
 * National Institute of Mental Health (US):
    https://www.nimh.nih.gov
 * American Psychiatric Association — patients & families:
    https://www.psychiatry.
   org/patients-families
 * American Psychological Association: https://www.apa.org

### Where to search

 * PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 * Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com
 * JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org
 * ScienceDirect: https://www.sciencedirect.com
 * PsycINFO (APA): https://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo
 * Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu

### Core textbooks (Chapters 1–5,⏎  12, 35)

 * Myers, D. & DeWall, C. N. — Psychology (intro textbook, any
    recent edition).
 * Nolen-Hoeksema, S. — Abnormal Psychology (recent edition).
 * American Psychiatric Association — DSM-5-TR (2022). Diagnostic
    manual; not a
   self-test.
 * World Health Organization — ICD-11 (https://icd.who.int).
 * James, W. — The Principles of Psychology (1890), public-domain
    classic.

### Chapters 1–2 —⏎  what mental health is; who does what

 * APA: https://www.apa.org/topics/psychotherapy
 * American Psychiatric Association — What is psychiatry?:
    https://www.psychiatry.
   org/patients-families/what-is-psychiatry

### Chapters 3–4,⏎  19, 21 — brain, chemicals, body chemistry

 * LeDoux, J. — The Emotional Brain (1996).
 * Damasio, A. — Descartes’ Error (1994).
 * Sapolsky, R. — Behave (2017).
 * NIH / NIMH brain basics:
    https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/educational-resources
 * Endocrine Society patient pages:
    https://www.endocrine.org/patient-engagement

### Chapters 5–7 — emotion,⏎  senses, stress

 * Schachter, S. and Singer, J. E. — Cognitive, social, and
    physiological determinants
   of emotional state. Psychological Review 1962; 69(5): 379–399.

### Chapters⏎  8–11, 18, 22 — anxiety, depression, trauma, severe illness, emergency

 * Beck, A. T. — Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders
    (1976).
 * Burns, D. — Feeling Good (1980) — public CBT, not a stand-alone
    treatment for
   severe illness.
 * Linehan, M. — Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline
    Personality Disorder(
   1993).
 * van der Kolk, B. — The Body Keeps the Score (2014).
 * Frankl, V. — Man’s Search for Meaning (1946).
 * NIMH anxiety:
    https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/anxiety-disorders
 * NIMH depression:
    https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression
 * NIMH PTSD:
    https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-
   ptsd
 * NIMH schizophrenia:
    https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia
 * NIMH bipolar:
    https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/bipolar-disorder
 * NICE guidelines (UK): https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance

### Chapters 13–16 —⏎  sleep, food, movement, routine

 * Walker, M. — Why We Sleep (popular science; check later papers for
    updates).
 * American Academy of Sleep Medicine: https://aasm.org
 * WHO physical activity:
    https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/physical-
   activity

### Chapters 14–15, 17 —⏎  therapy, medicines, family

 * NICE and APA practice guidelines for specific disorders (search by
    name on those
   sites).
 * NAMI family resources: https://www.nami.org
 * FDA medicines (US): https://www.fda.gov/drugs
 * Indian Psychiatric Society: https://indianpsychiatricsociety.org

### Chapters⏎  20, 23–24 — elements, integration, Gita, Yoga, Ayurveda

 * Bhagavad Gita — any standard edition with verse numbers (e.g.
    public-domain 
   translations plus a scholarly one).
 * Patanjali Yoga Sutras — Sanskrit with a careful commentary (not a gym
    poster).
 * Charaka Samhita online: https://www.carakasamhitaonline.com
 * Unmada Nidana:
    https://www.carakasamhitaonline.com/index.php?title=Unmada_Nidana
 * Unmada Cikitsa:
    https://www.carakasamhitaonline.com/index.php?title=Unmada_Chikitsa
 * Vagbhata — Ashtanga Hridaya, Sutra Sthana 1 (dhi, dhairya,
    atma-vijnana).
 * Public Sanskrit text libraries: GRETIL
    (https://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de),
   SARIT (https://sarit.indology.info) and Muktabodha (https://www.muktabodha.org).

### Chapter 35 — thinkers and⏎  methods

 * Primary works of each thinker named in this book.
 * APA PsycInfo and PubMed for original papers (Asch, Milgram, Bandura,
    Loftus,
   Beck).

Ethics note: Little Albert, some obedience and prison studies would
 not pass today’s
boards. Read the method and the harm together.

### Indic bibliography (compact)

 * Yoga Sutras of Patanjali — 1.2, 1.5–1.6, 1.12–1.14, 1.33, 2.3–2.11,
    2.29, 2.46.
 * Bhagavad Gita — 2.14, 2.38, 2.47–2.48, 2.50, 2.56, 2.62–2.63, 4.34,
    4.38, 5.18,
   6.5, 6.16–6.17, 6.34–6.35, 7.4, 12.13, 14.5, 15.9, 17.8, 17.20, 18.66.
 * Katha Upanishad 1.3.3; Isha Upanishad 1; Taittiriya (panca
    kosha).
 * Charaka Sutra 1.58, 11.54; Nidana 7; Cikitsa 9–10.
 * Tukaram Gatha; Tirukkural 1, 121 and 129; Narsimha Mehta — Vaishnava
    jana to;
   Basava vachana Kayakave Kailasa; Antal Tiruppavai 1.

## Sources used to⏎  check and revise this edition

This edition was formatted, revised with professional wordings,
 grammar and spell
check and image creations in October 2026, with help from AI Tools. The work covered
the anatomy figures, the hormones table in section 4.4, the verses, and the moving
of sections between chapters. The lists below name the standard books, papers and
official pages that the checked facts rest on, so that any reader can verify them.

### Anatomy of the brain,⏎  nerves and body

 * Standring, S. (ed.) — Gray’s Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of
    Clinical Practice,
   42nd edition. Elsevier, 2020.
 * Netter, F. H. — Atlas of Human Anatomy, 8th edition. Elsevier,
    2022.
 * Betts, J. G. et al. — Anatomy and Physiology, 2nd edition. OpenStax,
    Rice University,
   2022 (free online, CC BY licence). https://openstax.org/details/books/anatomy-
   and-physiology-2e
 * Kandel, E. R., Koester, J. D., Mack, S. H. and Siegelbaum, S. A. —
    Principles
   of Neural Science, 6th edition. McGraw Hill, 2021.
 * Bear, M. F., Connors, B. W. and Paradiso, M. A. — Neuroscience:
    Exploring the
   Brain, 4th edition. Wolters Kluwer, 2016.
 * Hall, J. E. and Hall, M. E. — Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical
    Physiology,
   14th edition. Elsevier, 2021.
 * Gray, H. — Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical. London, 1858 (public
    domain); 
   and Vesalius, A. — De humani corporis fabrica, 1543. The engraved style of the
   new figures follows this tradition of anatomical atlases.

### Psychology,⏎  stress and the stress response (Chapters 1–7)

 * Spielman, R. M. et al. — Psychology, 2nd edition. OpenStax, Rice
    University,
   2020 (free online): https://openstax.org/details/books/psychology-2e
 * McEwen, B. S. — Protective and damaging effects of stress mediators.
    New England
   Journal of Medicine 1998; 338(3): 171–179.
 * Chrousos, G. P. — Stress and disorders of the stress system. Nature
    Reviews 
   Endocrinology 2009; 5(7): 374–381.
 * Sapolsky, R. M. — Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, 3rd edition. Henry
    Holt, 2004.

### Gut–brain axis and serotonin

 * Furness, J. B. — The enteric nervous system and
    neurogastroenterology. Nature
   Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology 2012; 9(5): 286–294.
 * Cryan, J. F. et al. — The microbiota–gut–brain axis. Physiological
    Reviews 2019;
   99(4): 1877–2013.
 * Yano, J. M. et al. — Indigenous bacteria from the gut microbiota
    regulate host
   serotonin biosynthesis. Cell 2015; 161(2): 264–276.
 * Gershon, M. D. — The Second Brain. HarperCollins, 1998.

### Hormones, food and lifestyle

 * Melmed, S., Auchus, R. J., Goldfine, A. B., Koenig, R. J. and Rosen,
    C. J. (
   eds.) — Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 14th edition. Elsevier, 2020.
 * Gardner, D. G. and Shoback, D. (eds.) — Greenspan’s Basic and
    Clinical Endocrinology,
   10th edition. McGraw Hill, 2017.
 * Jonklaas, J. et al. — Guidelines for the treatment of hypothyroidism
    (American
   Thyroid Association). Thyroid 2014; 24(12): 1670–1751.
 * Zimmermann, M. B. and Boelaert, K. — Iodine deficiency and thyroid
    disorders.
   Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 2015; 3(4): 286–295.
 * Anderson, R. J. et al. — The prevalence of comorbid depression in
    adults with
   diabetes: a meta-analysis. Diabetes Care 2001; 24(6): 1069–1078.
 * Spiegel, K. et al. — Sleep curtailment in healthy young men is
    associated with
   decreased leptin levels, elevated ghrelin levels, and increased hunger and appetite.
   Annals of Internal Medicine 2004; 141(11): 846–850.
 * Auld, F. et al. — Evidence for the efficacy of melatonin in the
    treatment of
   primary adult sleep disorders. Sleep Medicine Reviews 2017; 34: 10–22.
 * Boyer, E. W. and Shannon, M. — The serotonin syndrome. New England
    Journal of
   Medicine 2005; 352(11): 1112–1120.
 * Boecker, H. et al. — The runner’s high: opioidergic mechanisms in the
    human 
   brain. Cerebral Cortex 2008; 18(11): 2523–2531.
 * Gordon, C. M. et al. — Functional hypothalamic amenorrhea: an
    Endocrine Society
   clinical practice guideline. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 2017;
   102(5): 1413–1439.
 * Bhasin, S. et al. — Testosterone therapy in men with hypogonadism: an
    Endocrine
   Society clinical practice guideline. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
   2018; 103(5): 1715–1744.
 * Teede, H. J. et al. — Recommendations from the 2023 international
    evidence-based
   guideline for the assessment and management of polycystic ovary syndrome. Journal
   of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 2023; 108(10): 2447–2469.
 * Holick, M. F. — Vitamin D deficiency. New England Journal of Medicine
    2007; 
   357(3): 266–281.
 * NHS (UK) health A–Z, pages on underactive and overactive thyroid,
    Addison’s 
   disease, Cushing’s syndrome, low blood sugar, PCOS, menopause, postnatal depression
   and vitamin D: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions
 * MedlinePlus, US National Library of Medicine — hormone and laboratory
    test pages:
   https://medlineplus.gov
 * NIH Office of Dietary Supplements — fact sheets on vitamin D, iodine,
    selenium,
   zinc and vitamin B6: https://ods.od.nih.gov
 * Endocrine Society — patient pages on hormones and glands:
    https://www.endocrine.
   org/patient-engagement

### Verses:⏎  texts and translations checked (all SHLOKA / VERSE boxes)

 * Bhagavad Gita — Sargeant, W. (trans.), The Bhagavad Gita, 25th
    anniversary edition.
   State University of New York Press, 2009 (Sanskrit, word-by-word gloss and translation).
 * Bhagavad Gita — Radhakrishnan, S., The Bhagavadgita. George Allen
    & Unwin, 1948;
   and Edgerton, F., The Bhagavad Gita. Harvard University Press, 1944.
 * Gita Supersite, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur — Sanskrit text
    with several
   classical commentaries and translations: https://www.gitasupersite.iitk.ac.in
 * Bryant, E. F. — The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. North Point Press,
    2009.
 * Olivelle, P. — The Early Upanishads: Annotated Text and Translation.
    Oxford 
   University Press, 1998.
 * Pope, G. U. — The Sacred Kurral of Tiruvalluva-Nayanar. W. H. Allen,
    1886 (Tamil
   text with English translation; public domain).
 * Narsinh Mehta — Vaishnava jana to (15th-century Gujarati hymn, widely
    printed
   in bhajan collections).
 * Charaka Samhita — Charaka Samhita Online, Charak Samhita Research,
    Training 
   and Development Centre, Jamnagar: https://www.carakasamhitaonline.com

### Diagnosis⏎  and classification (used to check terms throughout)

 * American Psychiatric Association — Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
    of Mental
   Disorders, 5th edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR). APA Publishing, 2022.
 * World Health Organization — International Classification of Diseases,
    11th revision(
   ICD-11): https://icd.who.int
 * National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), UK —
    clinical guidelines
   for depression, anxiety, psychosis and other conditions: https://www.nice.org.
   uk/guidance

### Websites⏎  and reference works that may have shaped the wording without being cited

These are widely read general sources. Some may have shaped the
 wording, through
the author’s earlier drafts or through the AI’s training, without being quoted or
cited directly. They are listed so that credit is not lost.

 * General encyclopaedias: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org) and
    Wikisource (
   https://wikisource.org); Encyclopaedia Britannica (https://www.britannica.com).
 * Hospital and clinic patient pages: Mayo Clinic
    (https://www.mayoclinic.org);
   Cleveland Clinic (https://my.clevelandclinic.org); Johns Hopkins Medicine (https://
   www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health); Harvard Health Publishing (https://www.health.
   harvard.edu); MSD Manuals, consumer edition (https://www.msdmanuals.com).
 * Medical reference: NCBI Bookshelf and StatPearls
    (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
   books); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (https://www.cdc.gov).
 * Mental-health organisations: Royal College of Psychiatrists
    (https://www.rcpsych.
   ac.uk); Mind, UK (https://www.mind.org.uk); NAMI (https://www.nami.org); Verywell
   Mind (https://www.verywellmind.com); Healthline (https://www.healthline.com).
 * India: NIMHANS, Bengaluru (https://nimhans.ac.in); Tele-MANAS
    national mental-
   health helpline, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (https://telemanas.mohfw.
   gov.in); Indian Council of Medical Research (https://www.icmr.gov.in).
 * Anatomy learning sites: Kenhub (https://www.kenhub.com);
    TeachMeAnatomy (https://
   teachmeanatomy.info); Radiopaedia (https://radiopaedia.org).
 * Texts and translations: Sacred Texts archive
    (https://sacred-texts.com); Wisdom
   Library (https://www.wisdomlib.org); Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.
   org); Internet Archive (https://archive.org); Project Madurai for Tamil texts(
   https://www.projectmadurai.org); GRETIL Sanskrit texts (http://gretil.sub.uni-
   goettingen.de); Vedabase (https://vedabase.io); Holy Bhagavad Gita (https://www.
   holy-bhagavad-gita.org).

If you find a fact in this book that does not match these sources, or
 a newer source
that changes it, please write to myadvisorfriend@gmail.com so that the next edition
can be corrected.

## Further reading:⏎  going deeper, topic by topic

Many people across the world have given their lives to understanding
 the mind and
easing its suffering. This short shelf names some of the best books for a reader
who wants to go further on one topic. Most are written for general readers. Read
them alongside your own clinician’s advice, not in place of it. Some popular books
simplify the science, and newer research may have moved on.

### Foundations and the⏎  story of psychology

 * William James — The Principles of Psychology (1890). The founding
    text of modern
   psychology, still readable.
 * Sigmund Freud — The Interpretation of Dreams (1899). The start of
    psychoanalysis;
   read as history, not as current treatment.
 * Carl G. Jung and colleagues — Man and His Symbols (1964). Jung’s
    ideas for the
   general reader.
 * Alfred Adler — Understanding Human Nature (1927). Belonging, courage
    and the
   feeling of inferiority.
 * Daniel Kahneman — Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011). How quick and slow
    thinking
   shape everyday judgement.
 * Steven Pinker — How the Mind Works (1997). The mind seen through
    evolution and
   computation.

### The brain and the body

 * Oliver Sacks — The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985). Human
    stories 
   from a neurologist’s clinic.
 * V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee — Phantoms in the Brain
    (1998). What
   unusual cases teach about the normal brain.
 * Norman Doidge — The Brain That Changes Itself (2007). Neuroplasticity
    for general
   readers.
 * Eric R. Kandel — In Search of Memory (2006). A Nobel laureate on how
    memory 
   is stored.
 * Antonio Damasio — Descartes’ Error (1994). Why feeling is part of
    good reasoning.
 * Lisa Feldman Barrett — How Emotions Are Made (2017). A modern theory
    of emotion.
 * Robert M. Sapolsky — Behave (2017). Biology of our best and worst
    behaviour,
   from seconds to centuries.

### Emotions and emotional⏎  intelligence

 * Daniel Goleman — Emotional Intelligence (1995).
 * Paul Ekman — Emotions Revealed (2003). Recognising emotions in faces
    and in 
   oneself.
 * Marc Brackett — Permission to Feel (2019). Teaching emotional skills
    at home
   and school.

### Stress and anxiety

 * Jon Kabat-Zinn — Full Catastrophe Living (1990). The
    mindfulness-based stress
   reduction programme.
 * Claire Weekes — Self Help for Your Nerves (1962). A classic, kind
    guide to panic
   and nervous symptoms.
 * Edmund J. Bourne — The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook (1990; later
    editions). Practical
   CBT exercises.
 * Russ Harris — The Happiness Trap (2007). Acceptance and commitment
    therapy (
   ACT) made simple.

### Depression and mood

 * Andrew Solomon — The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
    (2001).
 * Kay Redfield Jamison — An Unquiet Mind (1995). A psychiatrist’s own
    bipolar 
   illness.
 * Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn — The
    Mindful 
   Way Through Depression (2007).
 * David D. Burns — Feeling Good (1980). Self-help CBT for low mood.
 * Matt Haig — Reasons to Stay Alive (2015). A short personal account of
    surviving
   depression.

### Trauma, grief and loss

 * Judith Lewis Herman — Trauma and Recovery (1992).
 * Bessel van der Kolk — The Body Keeps the Score (2014).
 * Elisabeth Kübler-Ross — On Death and Dying (1969).
 * C. S. Lewis — A Grief Observed (1961).
 * Viktor E. Frankl — Man’s Search for Meaning (1946).

### Severe mental illness

 * E. Fuller Torrey — Surviving Schizophrenia: A Family Manual (1983;
    later editions).
 * Elyn R. Saks — The Center Cannot Hold (2007). A law professor’s life
    with schizophrenia.
 * Xavier Amador — I Am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help! (2000). Helping
    someone who
   does not accept illness.

### Therapy and healing

 * Carl R. Rogers — On Becoming a Person (1961).
 * Irvin D. Yalom — The Gift of Therapy (2002).
 * Aaron T. Beck — Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders
    (1976).
 * Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper — A Guide to Rational Living
    (1961).
 * Marsha M. Linehan — DBT Skills Training Manual, 2nd edition
    (2015).
 * Steven C. Hayes — Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life (2005).
 * Lori Gottlieb — Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (2019). Therapy from
    both chairs.

### Sleep, food and movement

 * Matthew Walker — Why We Sleep (2017). Check later research on some of
    its claims.
 * John J. Ratey — Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and
    the Brain(
   2008).
 * Felice Jacka — Brain Changer (2019). Food and mental health, from a
    leading 
   nutritional psychiatry researcher.
 * Kelly McGonigal — The Joy of Movement (2019).

### Children, families and⏎  relationships

 * Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson — The Whole-Brain Child
    (2011).
 * Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish — How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and
    Listen 
   So Kids Will Talk (1980).
 * Erik H. Erikson — Childhood and Society (1950). The stages of
    life.
 * John Bowlby — A Secure Base (1988). Attachment theory.
 * John M. Gottman and Nan Silver — The Seven Principles for Making
    Marriage Work(
   1999).

### Well-being, meaning and⏎  self-compassion

 * Martin E. P. Seligman — Learned Optimism (1990) and Flourish
    (2011).
 * Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — Flow (1990).
 * Abraham H. Maslow — Toward a Psychology of Being (1962).
 * Brené Brown — The Gifts of Imperfection (2010).
 * Kristin Neff — Self-Compassion (2011).

### Addiction,⏎  neurodiversity and digital life

 * Gabor Maté — In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (2008).
 * Anna Lembke — Dopamine Nation (2021).
 * Steve Silberman — NeuroTribes (2015). The history of autism.
 * Temple Grandin — Thinking in Pictures (1995).
 * Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey — Driven to Distraction (1994).
    ADHD.
 * Jonathan Haidt — The Anxious Generation (2024). Phones, childhood and
    mental
   health.
 * Cal Newport — Digital Minimalism (2019).

### Society, ageing and care

 * Robert B. Cialdini — Influence (1984).
 * Elliot Aronson — The Social Animal (1972).
 * Philip Zimbardo — The Lucifer Effect (2007).
 * Atul Gawande — Being Mortal (2014).
 * Nancy L. Mace and Peter V. Rabins — The 36-Hour Day (1981; later
    editions). 
   Caring for a person with dementia.

### Indian⏎  perspectives on mind and mental health

 * Vikram Patel and Charlotte Hanlon — Where There Is No Psychiatrist,
    2nd edition(
   2018). A practical manual for community mental health care, written with Indian
   and other low-resource settings in mind.
 * Sudhir Kakar — The Inner World: A Psycho-analytic Study of Childhood
    and Society
   in India (1978).
 * Swami Vivekananda — Raja Yoga (1896).
 * Eknath Easwaran (trans.) — The Bhagavad Gita (1985).
 * B. K. S. Iyengar — Light on Life (2005).
 * J. Krishnamurti — Freedom from the Known (1969).

### Free courses and learning⏎  online

 * Laurie Santos, Yale University — The Science of Well-Being (Coursera,
    free to
   audit).
 * OpenStax — Psychology 2e and Anatomy and Physiology 2e, free
    textbooks: https://
   openstax.org
 * WHO — Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Intervention Guide,
    free: https://
   www.who.int/publications

Guidelines and URLs change. Treat this page as a shelf label, not as
 last year’s
protocol. If a link dies, search the organisation name plus the topic.

### Reflection

 1. Which name in this chapter belongs next to a chapter you already
     read?
 2. Do you know where the nearest hospital is?
 3. Which glossary word do you still confuse with another?