Workbook Bibliography

Brain Section

Complete Workbook Bibliography & Recommended Reading

Primary Neuroscience, Cognitive Health & Learning Model Texts

  1. Arden, J. B. (2010). Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life. John Wiley & Sons.
    • Focus: Practical applications of self-directed neuroplasticity, memory consolidation, and breaking automated brain ruts through intentional habit formation.
  2. Brewer, J. (2017). The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits. Yale University Press.
    • Focus: The neurological mechanisms of habit loops, dopamine surges, mindfulness, and using curious awareness to step out of autopilot routines.
  3. Doidge, N. (2007). The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. Viking Penguin.
    • Focus: Structural brain changes, the “plastic paradox,” and how conscious practice forms and overwrites neural pathways.
  4. Grisel, J. (2019). Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction. Anchor Books.
    • Focus: Brain adaptations, chemical balance, and how behavioral/chemical changes stimulate neural recovery.
  5. Hart, C. (2013). High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society. Harper.
    • Focus: Environmental factors, available choices, agency, and how compulsive patterns respond to life conditions rather than static illness.
  6. Heyman, G. M. (2009). Addiction: A Disorder of Choice. Harvard University Press.
    • Focus: Empirical data on voluntary behavior change, agency, and how shifting choices and life circumstances alter compulsive patterns.
  7. Johnson, A. (2016). The Little Book of Big Change: The No-Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit. New Harbinger Publications.
    • Focus: Dismantling the illusion of personal brokenness, psychological clarity, and allowing natural mental health to emerge.
  8. Lewis, M. (2015). The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease. PublicAffairs.
    • Focus: Developmental neuroscience, motivated repetition, and framing recovery as normal brain development and skill acquisition.
  9. Schwartz, J. M., & Begley, S. (2002). The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force. Harper Perennial.
    • Focus: Self-directed neuroplasticity, Relabeling urges (Brain Lock method), and using conscious attention to reshape mental circuits.
  10. Szalavitz, M. (2016). Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction. St. Martin’s Press.
    • Focus: Viewing addiction through the lens of a developmental learning disorder and replacing identity labels with skill-building.
  11. Yildiz, M. (2026). Subconscious Mastery: Tapping into the Predictive Brain & Cognitive Longevity (Cognitive Health & Longevity Collection). DigitalMehmet Publishing.
    • Focus: Top-down predictive processing, belief structures, self-directed neuroplasticity, and aligning subconscious expectations with personal agency.

Faith, Identity & Supportive Behavioral Literature

  1. The Holy Bible (New International Version / English Standard Version).
    • Key Context: James 1:22–25 (“Be doers of the word, and not hearers only”), focusing on active practice, personal responsibility, and daily transformation over passive expectation.
  2. Friston, K. (2010). The free-energy principle: A unified brain theory? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11(2), 127–138.
    • Focus: Scientific grounding for top-down brain predictions, expectation dynamics, and subconscious filtering models.
  3. Schwartz, J. M. (1996). Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior. Harper Perennial.
    • Focus: Four-Step cognitive technique (Relabel, Reattribute, Refocus, Revalue) to decouple identity from intrusive mental surges.