Research

Giftedness and Spirituality

• Perrone, K. M., Webb, L. K., Wright, S. L., Jackson, Z. V., & Ksiazak, T. M. (2006). Relationship of spirituality to work and family roles and life satisfaction among gifted adults. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 28(3), 253-268.

• Rodríguez-Fernández, M. I., & Sternberg, R. J. (2023). The search for meaning in the life of the gifted. Gifted Education International, 02614294231189923.

• Vialle, W. J. (2007). Spiritual intelligence: An important dimension of giftedness. Values and foundations in gifted education, 171-186.

Cross-Cultural Spirituality and Mental Health

• Dy-Liacco, G. S., Piedmont, R. L., Murray-Swank, N. A., Rodgerson, T. E., & Sherman, M. F. (2009). Spirituality and religiosity as cross-cultural aspects of human experience. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 1(1), 35.

• Lau, E., McClintock, C. H. Y., Graziosi, M., Nakkana, A., Garcia, A., & Miller, L. (2020). Content Analysis of Spiritual Life in Contemporary USA, India and China. Religions, 11(6), 286.

• McClintock, C. H., Lau, E., & Miller, L. (2016). Phenotypic dimensions of spirituality: implications for mental health in China, India, and the United States. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 1600.

• Choi, S. H., McClintock, C. H. Y., Lau, E., & Miller, L. (2022). The impact of perceived relationship to ancestors on the association between self-transcendence and psychopathology: A cross-cultural examination. Transcultural Psychiatry, 13634615211049072.

Spirituality and Psychopathology

• Barton, Y. A., & Miller, L. (2015). Spirituality and positive psychology go hand in hand: An investigation of multiple empirically derived profiles and related protective benefits. Journal of religion and health, 54(3), 829-843.

• Choi, S. H., McClintock, C. H. Y., Lau, E., & Miller, L. (2020). The Dynamic Universal Profiles of Spiritual Awareness: A Latent Profile Analysis. Religions, 11(6), 288.

• Kendler, K.S., Gardner, C.O., & Prescott, C.A. (1997). Religions, psychopathology, and substance use and abuse; a multimeasure, genetic-epidemiologic study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 154(3), 322-329.

• Portnoff, L., McClintock, C., Lau, E., Choi, S., & Miller, L. (2017). Spirituality cuts in half the relative risk for depression: Findings from the United States, China, and India. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 4(1), 22.

Workplace Spirituality

• Lau, E., Sherman, S. B., & Miller, L. (2016). A Training Program in Spiritually Oriented Leadership: Inner Growth for Outer Change. In Handbook of Heroism and Heroic Leadership (pp. 322-337). Routledge.

Spirituality at End of Life

• Edwards, A., Pang, N., Shiu, V., & Chan, C. (2010). The understanding of spirituality and the potential role of spiritual care in end-of-life and palliative care: a meta-study of qualitative research. Palliative medicine, 24(8), 753-770.

• Lau, E., Gagnon, B., Miller, S. (2011) The Influence of Psycho-existential Profile on Biomarkers of Immune Response in Advanced Cancer. Psycho-oncology 20, 181.

• Meier, E. A., Gallegos, J. V., Thomas, L. P. M., Depp, C. A., Irwin, S. A., & Jeste, D. V. (2016). Defining a good death (successful dying): literature review and a call for research and public dialogue. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 24(4), 261-271.

• Williams, A. L. (2006). Perspectives on spirituality at the end of life: a meta-summary. Palliative & supportive care, 4(4), 407-417.

Spirituality and Addiction

• Chiesa, A., & Serretti, A. (2014). Are mindfulness-based interventions effective for substance use disorders? A systematic review of the evidence. Substance use & misuse, 49(5), 492-512.

• Kendler, K. S., Liu, X. Q., Gardner, C. O., McCullough, M. E., Larson, D., & Prescott, C. A. (2003). Dimensions of religiosity and their relationship to lifetime psychiatric and substance use disorders. American journal of psychiatry, 160(3), 496-503.

• Miller W. R. (1998). Researching the spiritual dimensions of alcohol and other drug problems. Addiction, 93, 979-990.

• Walton-Moss, B., Ray, E. M., & Woodruff, K. (2013). Relationship of spirituality or religion to recovery from substance abuse: a systematic review. Journal of addictions nursing, 24(4), 217-226.

• Witkiewitz, K., Bowen, S., Harrop, E. N., Douglas, H., Enkema, M., & Sedgwick, C. (2014). Mindfulness-based treatment to prevent addictive behavior relapse: theoretical models and hypothesized mechanisms of change. Substance use & misuse, 49(5), 513-524.

• Zgierska, A., Rabago, D., Chawla, N., Kushner, K., Koehler, R., & Marlatt, A. (2009). Mindfulness meditation for substance use disorders: A systematic review. Substance Abuse, 30(4), 266-294.

Psychosis and Spiritual Emergence

• Lukoff, D., Lu, F., & Turner, R. (1998). From spiritual emergency to spiritual problem: The transpersonal roots of the new DSM-IV category. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 38(2), 21-50.

• Prusak, J. (2016). Differential diagnosis of “Religious or Spiritual Problem”—Possibilities and limitations implied by the V-code 62.89 in DSM-5. Psychiatria polska.

• St Arnaud, K. O., & Cormier, D. C. (2017). Psychosis or Spiritual Emergency: The Potential of Developmental Psychopathology for Differential Diagnosis. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 36(2), 6.

Transpersonal Psychology

• Cortright, B. (1997). Psychotherapy and spirit: Theory and practice in transpersonal psychotherapy. SUNY Press.

• Daniels, M. (2005). Shadow, self, spirit: Essays in transpersonal psychology. Imprint Academic.

• Davis, J. (1998). The transpersonal dimensions of ecopsychology: Nature, nonduality, and spiritual practice. The humanistic psychologist, 26(1-3), 69-100.

• Wilber, K. (1993). The spectrum of consciousness. Quest Books.

• Wilber, K. (2000). Integral psychology: Consciousness, spirit, psychology, therapy. Shambhala Publications.

Genetics and Neuroscience of Spirituality

• Kendler, K. S., Gardner, C. O., & Prescott, C. A. (1999). Clarifying the relationship between religiosity and psychiatric illness: the impact of covariates and the specificity of buffering effects. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2(2), 137-144.

• Miller, L., Balodis, I. M., McClintock, C. H., Xu, J., Lacadie, C. M., Sinha, R., & Potenza, M. N. (2018). Neural correlates of personalized spiritual experiences. Cerebral Cortex.

• Miller, L., Bansal, R., Wickramaratne, P., Hao, X., Tenke, C.E., Weissman, M.M., & Peterson, B.S. (2014). Neuroanatomical correlates of religiosity and spirituality: A study in adults at high and low familial risk for depression. JAMA Psychiatry, 71(2), 128-35. 

Ecopsychology

• Anthony, C., & Soule, R. (1998). A multicultural approach to ecopsychology. The Humanistic Psychologist, 26(1-3), 155-161.

• Burns, C. A. (2012). Embodiment and embedment: integrating dance/movement therapy, body psychotherapy, and ecopsychology. Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, 7(1), 39-54.

• Conn, S. A. (1998). Living in the earth: Ecopsychology, health and psychotherapy. The humanistic psychologist, 26(1-3), 179-198.

• Fisher, A. (2012). What is ecopsychology? A radical view. Ecopsychology: Science, totems, and the technological species, 79-114.

• Jones, A. T., & Segal, D. S. (2018). Unsettling ecopsychology: Addressing settler colonialism in ecopsychology practice. Ecopsychology, 10(3), 127-136.

• Jung, C. G. (2002). The earth has a soul: CG Jung on nature, technology and modern life. North Atlantic Books.

• Kahn, P. H., & Hasbach, P. H. (Eds.). (2012). Ecopsychology: Science, totems, and the technological species. MIT Press.

• Scull, J. (2008). Ecopsychology: Where does it fit in psychology in 2009?. The Trumpeter, 24(3).

• Winkelman, M. (2013). Shamanism and psychedelics: A biogenetic structuralist paradigm of ecopsychology. European Journal of Ecopsychology, 4, 90-115.