- Bridging Beliefs. 35 Common Objections to the Bahá'í Faith (2018-05-03). Responses to common critiques of, doubts about, and objections to the Bahá'í Faith and against religion in general.
- Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian. Alzheimer's Disease: An Eclipse before Sunset (1989). Caring for victims of Alzheimer's Disease can be a formidable task. This paper offers some suggestions, based on clinical
observations and illumined by the Bahá’í teachings, for meeting those needs.
- Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian. Alzheimer's Disease: An Eclipse before Sunset (1999). Caring for victims of Alzheimer's Disease can be a formidable task. This book, revised and updated, offers some suggestions for meeting those needs, from both a clinical and a Bahá'í perspective.
- Horace Holley. Angel in the Garrison, The (1924-02). An essay critiquing modern psychology's materialistic approach, advocating a shift in consciousness towards spiritual understanding, and referencing the story of Job as a metaphor for spiritual transformation.
- Hossain Danesh. Apathy and Violence (1976). The nature of aggression, violence, fear and anxiety; threats and opportunities an organism encounters in life; and the relevance of Bahá'í teachings to preventing violence.
- Nossrat Peseschkian. Applications of Positive Psychotherapy for Marriage and Family Therapy (1983). To understand observed behaviour, we need to consider transcultural conditions as well as those in the personal history of the patient. This approach underlies the author's concept for a conflict-centred therapy.
- Jean-Marc Lepain. Peter Terry, trans. Archeology of the Kingdom of God, The (2015). Analysis of the spiritual worlds as depicted in philosophical and religious texts, from ancient the Greek to Jewish, Christian and Muslim thought, contrasted with the theosophy, metaphysics, anthropology, and hermeneutics of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
- Jordi Vallverdu Segura, Josuke Nakano. Architectures of Thinking, The (2022). Sacred architectures play a role in shaping cognition — which results from the relationships between the subject and their surroundings. By sharing an environment and its relationships, members of a community define their values, attitudes, and "reality."
- Mary K. Radpour. Authenticity Project, The (2001-06). An effort to integrate Bahá’í ethical principles and the psychological dynamics of growth. In both presentation and long-form notes formats.
- Peter Terry, comp. Bahá'í Education: Sources of Guidance (2007). A lengthy compilation covering many subjects of interest to parents, teachers, and students, such as education principles, curricula, pedagogy, psychology, gender, infants, and institutions.
- Hoda Mahmoudi, Gloria Teckie. Bahá'í Physicians: Emerging Roles and Responsibilities (2010). The role of a Bahá'í doctor; the relationship between medical intervention and health of the mind, soul, as well as body; the patient's role in maintaining their own health; a Bahá'í approach to health-care delivery.
- James J. Keene. Bahá'í World Faith: Redefinition of Religion (1967 Autumn). Bahá'ís consistently differ from Jews and Christians in the structure of their religious behavior and its relation to personality. Only the Bahá'ís evidenced a "fully balanced" religious activity.
- Albert Ross Vail. Bahá'ísm: A Study of a Contemporary Movement (1914-07). Scholarly analysis of the influence of the Bahá'í Faith and the psychology of its followers.
- Andrew R. Hatala. Bahá'u'lláh's Seven Valleys and Developmental Psychology: Toward a Conception of Spiritual Development (2011). Through the lens of the Seven Valleys, this paper creates a dialogue between theories of developmental psychology and Bahá’í philosophical perspectives, explores the evolution of the "self," and examines spiritual striving in human phylogeny and ontogeny.
- Paul Lample, comp. Bahá'u'lláh's Teachings on Spiritual Reality (1996). The quest for spirituality, the spiritual life, material and spiritual reality, the progress of the soul and humanity’s spiritual education.
- Rhett Diessner. Bahá'í Faith and Peace Psychology, The: The Potential for Science and Religion to Collaborate (1994). On the potential for Bahá’í peace initiatives, coupled with empirical peace psychology approaches, regarding: ethnicity and peace, feminism and peace, and peace and education.
- Rhett Diessner. Beauty of the Human Psyche, The: The Patterns of the Virtues (2016). Insights from science and the Bahá'í Writings combine to show how the human soul is a shining of divine attributes reflected into our mind, where they manifest as virtuous thoughts and spiritual emotions.
- Rhett Diessner. Beauty of the Organic Oneness of Nature and Humanity, The: Environmental Psychology and the Bahá'í Writings (2012 Summer). The interdependence of humanity and nature through the lens of environmental psychology: human cognition, emotions, and values are influenced and shaped by the natural environment; the beauty and health of nature are in turn influenced by humans.
- Elena Mustakova. Becoming Hospitable and Uplifting Holding Environments for Humanity's Griefs: Depression and the Bahá'í Community (2017). What depression and anxiety-related conditions can teach us about creating healing spiritual communities; the Bahá'í message can help encourage us toward healing and uplifting communities, to embrace humanity’s griefs and point the way forward.
- Daniel C. Jordan. Becoming Your True Self (1968). The nature of human potential, and how the Bahá'í Faith can guide the process of spiritual transformation.
- Universal House of Justice. Childhood Abuse, and Revoking Parent's Right of Marriage Consent (1992-12-22). Guidance on therapy and recovery from sexual abuse. The abusing parent's right to consent to marriage can be revoked.
- Universal House of Justice. Childhood Abuse, Ritual (1994-10-23). Matters of psychology and healing relating to recovery from certain forms of childhood abuse.
- Universal House of Justice. Childhood Trauma, Recovering from (1992-09-09). Guidance for individuals who suffered traumatic childhood experiences at the hands of disturbed parents.
- Rhett Diessner. Cognitive-Developmental Psychology and the Baha'i Faith: Meaningful Connections (1995-04). Some major concepts shared by Bahá'ís and adherents of cognitive-developmentalism; avenues of communication between members of the Bahá'í Faith and the therapeutic community.
- Diane Robinson Kerr. Coming Age of Humanity and its Implications for Psychotherapy, The (2013-10). Humanity is undergoing inevitable and revolutionary change. The transition from turbulent adolescence to global maturity especially affects our understanding of human psychology. This thesis examines the impact on psychotherapy in particular.
- Peter Hulme. Community in Diversity: The New Man (1991). The focus of this presentation is the community of selves within each of us. Where is the evidence that we are more than one self?
- Juan Cole. Concept of Manifestation in the Bahá'í Writings, The (1982). Lengthy overview of Bahá'í theology and prophetology and their Islamic roots.
- Phyllis K. Peterson. Creating Intimacy: In the Community and With the Seeker (1998). On how intimacy in the Bahá'í community can be created, using Bahá’í scriptures as guideline. We hunger for intimacy, which is a prerequisite for friendship and a key principle in teaching. Cases drawn from experiences of people who feel psychically hurt.
- Shahrzad Sabet. Crisis of Identity, The (2023-01-17). Exploring how the Bahá’í principle of the oneness of humanity can resolve the seemingly intractable tension between oneness and diversity.
- Bernardo Bortolin Kerr. Death of Death, The: A Study of Self-Annihilation and Suicide in the Light of Sufi Thought and Bahá'u'lláh's Early Texts (2014). On theories of suicide in the field of conventional psychology and the writings of Bahá'u'lláh.
- Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian. Depression: Biological, Psychosocial, and Spiritual Dimensions and Treatment (2015). Biological, psychosocial, and environmental factors contribute to the development of depression. If religious beliefs and spiritual values also play a role, what insights can the Bahá'í Faith offer?
- Patricia McIlvride. Depression, Stigma, and the Soul (2017). New recovery models, like interpersonal neurobiology, are challenging the medical model in the treatment of mental illness. By defining the mind as transcendent and both embodied and relational, new avenues of healing become possible.
- Jack McLean. Dimensions of Spirituality: Reflections on the Meaning of Spiritual Life and Transformation in Light of the Bahá'í Faith (1994). The search for truth; models and profiles of spiritual transformation; the mystical sense — prayer and meditation; a paradigm of spirituality and life tests; spiritual anthropology — the self and the soul; imagination; faith, love, and knowledge.
- Julio Savi. Dimensions of Spirituality, by Jack McLean: Review (1995).
- Michael Karlberg. Discourse Theory and Peace (2012). Discourse theory, which rests on the idea that language helps constitute our reality, can shed light on the role that language plays in both direct and structural violence. No mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
- Annamarie K. Honnold, comp. Divine Therapy: Pearls of Wisdom from the Bahá'í Writings (1986). Lengthy collection of passages on numerous themes including coping with stress, orientation to the Divine, and developing helpful attitudes.
- Tjanara Goreng-Goreng. Effects of addiction/alcoholism, acculturation, physical, emotional and sexual violence on the education of aboriginal children, The (1995). The social problems facing many Australian aboriginal children; the need to involve indigenous peoples themselves in responding to these problems.
- Jack McLean. Erich Fromm and the Bahá'í Faith (2007-08-02). Brief examination of psychologist Fromm's exposure to and influence by Bahá'í teachings.
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. Essence of Man, The: Towards a Bahá'í Understanding of Human Nature and Psychology (2011). Commentary on a section from Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet to Mírzá Hádí, about "the essence of man." This paper attempts to provide an understanding of what is expressed in these Words and understand "Who is Man."
- Susan Gammage. Fear Into Faith: Overcoming Anxiety (2013). An overview on understanding anxieties and fears, how to cope with them, and Bahá'í perspectives.
- Theo A. Cope. Firm Cord of Servitude, The (2001). A call for a revisioning of mysticism's claims of "union with God" in light of the Bahá'í Teachings as well as Jungian psychology.
- Shahbaz Fatheazam. Fragility of Goodness, The: Hexis and Praxis in the Historical Figure of 'Abdu'l-Baha (2012). How personal character and activity can survive negative pressures from the external world, and what can be learned from the example of Abdu'l-Bahá's social action.
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. Freud's Transference and the Four States of Bahá'u'lláh (2015). On the tetrarchic structure of Bahá'u'lláh's "Firstness and lastness, outwardness and inwardness" and Freud's concept of transferences, which are impulses from the past that the patient experiences as present and mistakenly relates back to the therapist.
- Naghme Naseri Morlock. From Outsider to Outsider: A Study of Iranian Bahá'ís' Identity in Iran and the United States (2023). The denial of a national identity of Bahá'ís in Iran; their experiences in the U.S.; cultural differences between immigrant and American Bahá'ís; the importance of religious identity; how religious, national, and cultural identities are negotiated.
- Universal House of Justice. Homosexuality: Biological, or a Learned Behavior? (1993-07-05). Various topics related to homosexuality, with an especial focus on whether the Bahá'í writings teach that homosexuality is biologically based or is a "learned behavior."
- Michael L. Penn. Human Nature and Mental Health: A Bahá'í-Inspired Perspective (2015). Overview of one research-practitioner’s understanding of the nature of mind from the perspective of the Bahá’í teachings, and implications of this view for understanding mental health and mental illness.
- Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian. Human Responses to Life Stress and Suffering (1983). The human response to stressful events; coping mechanisms, including those of Bahá'í martyrs; responses to social stressors.
- Ross Woodman. "In the Beginning Was the Word": Apocalypse and the Education of the Soul (1993). Hidden meanings in scripture and the soul are metaphorically identified with the huris, or brides. The bridegroom, Bahá'ulláh, enters union as the marriage of the Manifestation with the Maid of Heaven, who releases the Logos and the newly created soul.
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. In the Heart of All That Is: "Heart" in Bahá'í Writings and Science (2009). The “Heart,” and the “City of the Heart,” are central concepts in the Bahá’í Writings. The idea of the heart being the site where the spiritual and the physical meet.
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. In the Pure Soil of Thy Heart: "Heart" in Bahá'í Writings and Neurocardiology (2009). How the physical heart in its new discovered properties can actually be the seat of knowledge and right decisions.
- Lesley Shams. Insistent Self, The: How to Nurture Our Spirit (2015). The nature of our ego and the effort needed to prevent this lower nature taking over and hindering our spiritual destiny; compilation of guidance from the Writings and other sources on the spiritual path, prayer, fasting, sacrifice, tests, love, etc.
- Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian, Shadi Salehian. Is Spirituality Effective in Addiction Recovery and Prevention? (2018). Substance abuse has become a global health crisis, the leading cause of death and disability worldwide; various theories have emerged about the positive influence of spirituality; how an effective approach to prevention and treatment might be realized.
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. Language of the Heart, The: From Dream Language towards Understanding the Language of the Heart (2016). On the form and style of the language of the heart; ways this language differs from our normal language and thinking as it is developed in the human brain; the language and logic of dreams; effects of heart transplants.
- Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Australia, comp. Light and Mercy: Mental Health and Tests and Difficulties (2021). The physical and mental impact of the continuing pandemic is evident around us, and the members of the Baha’i community are not immune. This publication will be of assistance and support to the friends both individually and collectively.
- Michael L. Penn. Light Was in the Darkness, The: Reflections on the Growth that Hides in the Pain of Suffering (2020-07). Existential stress and its relationship to individual growth and development, drawing on the rich spiritual and philosophical heritage of humanity.
- Kerry Mothersill. Marriage Breakdown in North America: A Psychosocial Perspective (1983). What are the effects of marital breakdown, what are its causes, and what can be done to enhance marital and family stability?
- Phyllis K. Peterson. Meaning of Detachment, The (1997). Detachment as it relates to women, teaching, the media, and unity.
- Faraneh Vargha-Khadem. Mind and Spirit: Convergence of Neuroscience and Revealed Knowledge (2005-08-13).
- John S. Hatcher. Mizán of Affect in Material v. Metaphysical Models of Human Consciousness, The (2023-07). Though Bahá'í teachings hold that the soul progresses after the body ceases to exist, the physical brain is essential to our development; emotional processing requires a healthy brain; the brain-as-transceiver model can help treat affective disorders.
- John S. Hatcher. Nature of Human Nature, The (2017). "From the Editor's Desk": Introduction to this issue's two articles: Ian Kluge's on human nature and Patricia McIlvride’s on mental disorders and depression, stigma, and the soul.
- Bayan Jalalizadeh. Need for an Integrative Conceptual Framework for Addressing Mental Health Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic, The (2022). Overview of the state of mental health and illness in the world during the Covid pandemic, summary of the prevailing frameworks and practices, and a potential framework which could guide a response to current mental health challenges.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Night as Frontier: Some Implications for the Bahá'í Community (1997). Sociological effects of night-shift employment and the nocturnal populace.
- Mark Brush. Perceiving Differences: A Look at Gender and Equality (1988). Observations on what Richard DeNovellis' "Personality Type Preference Indicator" tests show about ages and genders; laws of nature vs. laws of God.
- Michael J. Bruwer. Poetry of Loving: Family Therapy and the Bahá'í Faith (1983). Psychotherapy and the family; the Bahá'í concept of the family; the role of models of the world.
- Laura Herzog. Preliminary Analysis of the Bahá'í Concept of Mental Health (1998-05). A preliminary analysis of Bahá’í concepts of psychology, delimited to translated Scriptures and the author’s understanding of Divine Revelation, vis-à-vis the theories of Jung, Maslow, and Rogers.
- Erik Blumenthal. Problem Solving in the Family (1995). How can we solve our problems or conflicts? We need to know and put 5 factors into practice: our attitude; mutual respect; understanding each other's motives; changing the 'present agreement' by conscious communication; and mutual cooperation.
- Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian. Psychological and Spiritual Dimensions of Persecution and Suffering (1994). Persecution of the Bahá’ís of Iran as an example of spiritual resilience: what are the spiritual meanings of suffering? When confronted with persecution or torture, why do some individuals show radiant acceptance; what role do faith and belief play?
- Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice. Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Psychology and Knowledge of Self (n.d.).
- Ronald Roesch. Psychology and Peace (1988). The relevance of psychology to the establishment of peace in the context of the Bahá’í peace message.
- Moojan Momen. Psychology of Mysticism and its Relationship to the Bahá'í Faith (1984-03). Contrast of theories of mysticism and its physiological components from the perspective of 20th-century psychology.
- Hossain Danesh. Psychology of Spirituality, The: From Divided Self to Integrated Self (2000). Explores what is the nature of human reality, the purpose of human life, transcendence, and whether we have free will, using case histories, in-depth analysis, and practical examples. First 3 chapters only.
- Orcella Rexford. Radiant Acquiescence (1937-09). "Radiant acquiescence" (ridá') means not only to give up your will to the Divine Will, but to do so joyfully and with radiance, knowing it is the best way in the end.
- Universal House of Justice. Reincarnation, Rebirth and the Progress of the Soul (1995-04-25). On reincarnation, the Soul and the Concept of “Return,” and The Mind and “Former Life Memories."
- Vahid Payman. Religion and Psychological Well-Being: Is There an Association? (1995). Research on possible linkages between religion and mental health amongst the elderly are inconclusive: more research is needed; health professionals need to be aware of the importance of religion as a coping strategy for some.
- James J. Keene. Religious Behavior and Neuroticism, Spontaneity, and Worldmindedness (1967-06). Bahá'ís were included in a broad survey of religious thoughts and actions, and their attitudes statistically compared with followers of other faiths.
- Naghme Naseri Morlock. Religious Persecution and Oppression: A Study of Iranian Baha'ís' Strategies of Survival (2021). Research based on extensive interviews exploring three ways that members of the Bahá'í community responded to diaspora and persecution: passing as Muslim, religious constancy in the face of danger, and alternating "passing" with open displays.
- Hoda Mahmoudi, Nasim Ahmadiyeh. Resilience in Children: Within a Spiritual, Social, and Neurobiological Framework (2002). Exposure to hardship and to events requiring adaptation to change allows the child to learn flexibility and resilience, and so find his or her sphere of useful service in a constantly changing world.
- Marion Woodman. Role of the Feminine in the New Era, The (1989). The unveiled feminine, symbolized by the unveiling of the Persian poet Táhirih at the conference of Badasht in 1848, announces a long-awaited coming of age or psychic integration.
- Universal House of Justice. Sabaeans and African-based Religions in the Americas, The (2012). Overview by the Research Department about the religion of the Sabaeans [aka Sabeans], and some indigenous practices in the southern Americas such as Yoruba, Santeria, and Brazilian Candomble.
- Rhett Diessner. Selflessness: Congruences between the Cognitive-Developmental Research Program and the Bahá'í Writings (1990). On four major concepts shared by the cognitive-developmentalist theorists (Piaget, Kohlberg, Kegan) and the Bahá’í writings, including a developmental teleology, the stage-like nature of development, the importance of an epistemic focus, and selflessness.
- Faezeh Afshar. Shared Value Priorities in Groups: The Impact of the Bahá'i Faith on Values (2012-11). Examination of value priorities held by Bahá'ís and the degree of their religiousity, using data obtained by an online survey of over 1,000 responses. Link to thesis (offsite).
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. Sow the Seeds of My Divine Wisdom in the Pure Soil of Thy Heart: Towards Coordinating Langs' Communicative Approach of Psychoanalysis with the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh (2019). On correlating the contemporary world and the Bahá’í Revelation through the psychoanalysis of Robert Langs, who postulated that "divine wisdom" lies inherent deep within the human unconscious mind.
- William G. Huitt. Spiritual Nature of a Human Being, The (2000). When individuals combine understandings derived from science, philosophy, and religion with their personal experiences and intuitions they will have a more complete knowledge of the reality of the universe than from any one knowledge system by itself.
- Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis. Spiritual Oppression in Frankenstein (1999). Comparing Shelley’s depiction of a spiritual malaise in Frankenstein with Bahá’u’lláh’s definition in the Kitáb-i-Íqán of the oppression experienced at the end of a reigning spiritual dispensation by the soul who seeks God but does not know where to look.
- Author unknown, comp. Spiritualism, Reincarnation and Related Subjects (1973). Includes psychic phenomena, spiritual healing, and astrology.
- Abdu'l-Missagh Ghadirian. Substance Abuse: A Bahá'í Perspective (2000). Up-to-date information about diverse addictive substances that are widely abused worldwide, including alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, marijuana, and heroin. Written for both the general public, the health professional, and government policy-makers.
- Lindsay-Rose Dykema. Thankful in Adversity: Using Bahá'í Writings and Benefit Finding to Enhance Understanding and Application of Mental Health Recovery Principles (2018). Both the Bahá’í Writings and the literature on "benefit finding" can enhance the understanding and applications of mental health recovery principles; the spiritual dimension of recovery.
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. "These Four States Conferred Upon Thee": Tetrarchic Thinking in Philosophy, Theology, Psychology (2013). We follow Bahá’u’lláh’s new principles and forget old patterns of thought in order to find peace, not only in the world, but also in our hearts. One new paradigm includes four-fold relationships, like Firstness/Lastness vs. Inwardness/Outwardness.
- Viva Rodwell. Three Ages of Man, The: Are They Integrated? (1996). Childhood, adulthood, old age, and family integration in contemporary culture.
- Mary K. Radpour. Three Books on Self-Help and Healing: Review (2017).
- Michelle Maloney. Toward a Baha'i Concept of Mental Health: Implications for Clinical Practice (2006-01). Understanding religious beliefs as a resource for more fully conceptualizing clients psychological functioning; in particular, how Bahá'í clients conceive of mental health and counseling.
- Michael Harris Bond. Unity in Diversity: Orientations and Strategies for Building a Harmonious Multicultural Society (1998-06). Insights from the discipline of psychology can be used to design societies compatible with the exigencies and opportunities provided by the 21st Century.
- James J. Keene. Unsuspected Effects of Religion on your Personality (1967). Review of research reports in sociology and social psychology journals to analyse survey data from five religious groups — Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Bahá'ís and non-affiliates — to define four dimensions of key social psychological dynamics.
- Susan Gammage. Various Essays (2013-2018/2023). 47 short essays on following the teachings and living a Bahá'í life, life coaching and counselling, recovery from substances or abuse, family matters, dreams, elections, debt, abortion, and more. Includes bios of Bruce Matthews and Caroline Lehmann.
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. Word is the Master Key for the Whole World, The: The Bahá'í Revelation and the "Teaching and Spirit of the Cause" in Dialogical and Personal Thinking (2007). The Word of God is the master key that opens all doors; it assures the opening to the meaning of the whole world and its relationship to heaven; it is the key to the hearts of men and the human spirit, which opens this world towards the doors of heaven.
- Auguste Henri Forel. World Vision of a Savant, The (1928). Ruminations on the nature of the human brain, causes of racism, how to stop wars, the meaning of "God," and Bahá'í principles.
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