Selected Works & References

The foundational texts of Emotional Forensics by Dean Bowman, as part of The Shape of What Remains. It is a living document, updated as new investigations (Cases) require new concepts, methods, and approaches.


Trauma, Memory, and Neuroscience

Churchland, P. S. (1986). Neurophilosophy: Toward a unified science of the mind-brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Eliminative Materialism)

Ecker, B., Ticic, R., & Hulley, L. (2012). Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation. New York, NY: Routledge.

Herman, J. L. (1992). Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Nader, K., Schafe, G. E., & Le Doux, J. E. (2000). Fear memories require protein synthesis in the amygdala for reconsolidation after retrieval. Nature, 406(6797), 722–726.

Porges, S. W. (2011). The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation. New York, NY: W. W. Norton.

Schacter, D. L. (1996). Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Van der Kolk, B. A. (2014). The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. New York, NY: Viking.


Psychosocial Development and Identity

Erikson, E. H. (1968). Identity: Youth and crisis. New York, NY: W. W. Norton.

Erikson, E. H. (2000). The Erikson reader (R. Coles, Ed.). New York, NY: W. W. Norton.

Kobayashi, H. (1963). Aidentiti to jiminzoku-chūshin-shugi: Kiken to hogo-saku Identity and Ethnocentrism: Dangers and Safeguards. Tokyo, Japan: Akatsuki Shorin. (小林 博. (1963). アイデンティティと自民族中心主義:危険と保護策. 東京, 日本: 暁書林).

Matsumoto, K. (1975). Sabetsu: Wasurerareta sengo no kyōkun Discrimination: Postwar Lessons Forgotten. Kyoto, Japan: Seiwa Shuppan. (松本 健一. (1975). 差別:忘れられた戦後の教訓. 京都, 日本: 青和出版).

Nakamura, S. (1982). Kokusai-ji: Tagensei ni yoru heiwa International Children: Peace through Plurality. Tokyo, Japan: Asunaro Shobo. (中村 小百合. (1982). 国際児:多元性による平和. 東京, 日本: あすなろ書房).


Emotional Labor and Social Structure

Goffman, E. (1959). The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York, NY: Anchor Books.

Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Hochschild, A. R. (1979). Emotion work, feeling rules, and social structure. American Journal of Sociology, 85(3), 551–575.

Hochschild, A. R. (1983). The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Illouz, E. (2007). Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.


Habitus, Practice, and Cultural Capital

Bourdieu, P. (1977). Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1984). Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bourdieu, P. (1990). The Logic of Practice. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Bourdieu, P., & Wacquant, L. J. D. (1992). An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.


Jungian Psychology and Depth Psychology

Hollis, J. (2013). Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives. Asheville, NC: Chiron Publications.

Jung, C. G. (1951). Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self (Collected Works, Vol. 9, Part 2). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Jung, C. G. (1959). The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works, Vol. 9, Part 1). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Jung, C. G. (1968). Man and His Symbols. New York, NY: Dell Publishing.

von Franz, M.-L. (1980). Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology: Reflections of the Soul. London, UK: Open Court.


Linguistic Analysis and Discourse

Blackwell, C. B. (1982). Narrative, Language, and Reason: An Inquiry into the Nature of Human Meaning. New York: Meridian Press.

Labov, W., & Waletzky, J. (1967). Narrative analysis: Oral versions of personal experience. In J. Helm (Ed.), Essays on the Verbal and Visual Arts (pp. 12–44). Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.

Johnson, W. (1946). People in quandaries: The semantics of personal adjustment. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers.

Pennebaker, J. W. (2011). The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press.

Sapir, A. (2005). The LSI Course on Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN). Phoenix, AZ: Laboratory for Scientific Interrogation.

Tannen, D. (1989). Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.


Organizational Systems and Dysfunction

Argyris, C. (1990). Overcoming Organizational Defenses: Facilitating Organizational Learning. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Argyris, C., & Schön, D. A. (1978). Organizational Learning: A Theory of Action Perspective. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Kegan, R., & Lahey, L. L. (2009). Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press.

Schein, E. H. (2010). Organizational Culture and Leadership (4th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Senge, P. M. (1990). The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. New York, NY: Doubleday/Currency.


Philosophy and Phenomenology

Camus, A. (1955). The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (J. O'Brien, Trans.). New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. (Original work published 1942).

Hegel, G. W. F. (1977). Phenomenology of Spirit (A. V. Miller, Trans.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. (Original work published 1807).

Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and Time (J. Macquarrie & E. Robinson, Trans.). New York, NY: Harper & Row. (Original work published 1927).

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). Phenomenology of Perception (C. Smith, Trans.). London, UK: Routledge. (Original work published 1945).

Sagan, C. (1996). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark. New York: Random House.

Sartre, J.-P. (1956). Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (H. E. Barnes, Trans.). New York, NY: Philosophical Library. (Original work published 1943).

Thoreau, H. D. (1854/1971). Walden. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.


Ethics and Moral Philosophy

Dalai Lama. (2011). Beyond religion: Ethics for a whole world. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Singer, P. (2016). Ethics in the real world: 82 brief essays on things that matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.


Attachment and Relational Theory

Ainsworth, M. D. S., Blehar, M. C., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Bowen, M. (1978). Family Therapy in Clinical Practice. New York, NY: Jason Aronson.

Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment and Loss, Vol. 1: Attachment. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Johnson, S. M. (2008). Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.

Schwartz, R. C. (1995). Internal Family Systems Therapy. New York, NY: Guilford Press.


Cross-Cultural Communication and Intercultural Studies

Cavalli-Sforza, L. L., Menozzi, P., & Piazza, A. (1996). The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution. Reading, MA: Perseus Books.

Chaney, L. H., & Martin, J. S. (1994). Intercultural Business Communication. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Dodd, C. H. (1990). The Dynamics of Intercultural Communication (3rd ed.). Dubuque, IA: William C. Brown.

Hall, E. T. (1959). The Silent Language. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

Hall, E. T. (1966). The Hidden Dimension. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

Hall, E. T. (1976). Beyond Culture. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press.

Hofstede, G., Hofstede, G. J., & Minkov, M. (2010). Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind (3rd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Montagu, A. (1942). Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Yamada, H. (1997). Different Games, Different Rules: Why Americans and Japanese Misunderstand Each Other. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.


Critical Theory, Affect Theory, and Cultural Studies

Ahmed, S. (2004). The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.

Benjamin, W. (1968). Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (H. Zohn, Trans.). New York, NY: Schocken Books.

Berlant, L. (2011). Cruel Optimism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Butler, J. (1990). Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York, NY: Routledge.

Cvetkovich, A. (2012). Depression: A Public Feeling. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Derrida, J. (1978). Writing and Difference (A. Bass, Trans.). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Fisher, M. (2009). Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Winchester, UK: Zero Books.

Fisher, M. (2016). The Weird and the Eerie. London, UK: Repeater Books.

Fisher, M. (2022). Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (M. Ambrose, Ed.). London, UK: Repeater Books.

Foucault, M. (1977). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (A. Sheridan, Trans.). New York, NY: Pantheon Books.

Ngai, S. (2005). Ugly Feelings. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Sedgwick, E. K. (2003). Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


Feminist Theory and Gender Studies

de Beauvoir, S. (1949/2011). The Second Sex (C. Borde & S. Malovany-Chevallier, Trans.). New York, NY: Vintage Books.

hooks, b. (2000). All About Love: New Visions. New York, NY: William Morrow.

Lorde, A. (1984). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press.


Labor, Craft, and Social Philosophy

Butler, S. (1872/1970). Erewhon. New York, NY: Penguin Books.

Morris, W. (1890/1993). News from Nowhere and Other Writings. London, UK: Penguin Classics.

Weber, M. (1946). From Max Weber: Essays in sociology (H. H. Gerth & C. W. Mills, Eds. & Trans.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Weber, M. (1958). The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (T. Parsons, Trans.). New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons. (Original work published 1905).


Business, Management, and Strategy

Kawase, M. (川瀬, 誠). (2013). 戦略思考コンプリートブック: 課題解決できる思考の「OS」教えます Strategic Thinking Complete Book: Teaching the “OS” of Problem-Solving. 東京, 日本: 日本実業出版社

Argyris, C. (1990). Overcoming organizational defenses: Facilitating organizational learning. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Kegan, R., & Lahey, L. L. (2009). Immunity to change: How to overcome it and unlock potential in yourself and your organization. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press.

Senge, P. M. (1990). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. New York, NY: Doubleday/Currency.


Literary Theory, Criticism, and Essays

Baldwin, J. (1998). Collected Essays. New York, NY: Library of America.

Barthes, R. (1977). Image—Music—Text (S. Heath, Trans.). New York, NY: Hill and Wang.

Cioran, E. M. (1975). A Short History of Decay (R. Howard, Trans.). New York, NY: Viking Press. (Original work published 1949).

Didion, J. (1968). Slouching Towards Bethlehem. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Hollister, M. (1973). The Burden of Awareness: Self-Reflexivity in Modern Fiction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Hollister, M. (1980). Textual Labyrinths: Reading Modernism After Joyce. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Hollister, M. (1989). The Critical Imagination: Essays on Literature and Theory. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Hollister, M. (1995). Against Interpretation’s Heirs: Culture, Criticism, and the Question of Value. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.

Pessoa, F. (2001). The Book of Disquiet (R. Zenith, Trans.). New York, NY: Penguin Books. (Written as Bernardo Soares).

Sontag, S. (1977). On Photography. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.


Literature and Fiction

Camus, A. (1955). The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (J. O'Brien, Trans.). New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. (Original work published 1942).

Dostoevsky, F. (1864/2009). Notes from Underground (R. Pevear & L. Volokhonsky, Trans.). New York, NY: Vintage Classics.

García Márquez, G. (1992). Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories (E. Grossman, Trans.). New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.

Ishiguro, K. (1989). The Remains of the Day. London, UK: Faber & Faber.

Ishiguro, K. (1995). The Unconsoled. London, UK: Faber & Faber.

Ishiguro, K. (2005). Never Let Me Go. London, UK: Faber & Faber.

Kafka, F. (1915). Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]. Leipzig, Germany: Kurt Wolff Verlag.

Kafka, F. (1925). Der Prozess [The Trial]. Berlin, Germany: Die Schmiede.

Kafka, F. (1926). Das Schloss [The Castle]. Munich, Germany: Kurt Wolff Verlag.

Le Guin, U. K. (1968). A Wizard of Earthsea. Berkeley, CA: Parnassus Press.

Le Guin, U. K. (1971). The Tombs of Atuan. New York, NY: Atheneum Books.

Le Guin, U. K. (1972). The Farthest Shore. New York, NY: Atheneum Books.

Le Guin, U. K. (1974). The Dispossessed. New York, NY: Harper & Row.

Le Guin, U. K. (1990). Tehanu. New York, NY: Atheneum Books.

Natsume, S. (2003). Botchan (Rev. ed.). Iwanami Bunko. (夏目漱石. (2003). 坊っちゃん. 岩波文庫).

Proust, M. (1982). Swann's Way (C. K. Scott Moncrieff & T. Kilmartin, Trans.). New York, NY: Modern Library. (Original work published 1913).

Shelley, M. (1994). Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. New York, NY: Dover Publications. (Original work published 1818).

Steinbeck, J. (1932). The Pastures of Heaven. New York, NY: Covici Friede.

Tanizaki, J. (1955). Sasameyuki The Makioka Sisters (Vols. 1–3). Iwanami Bunko. (谷崎潤一郎. (1955). 細雪 (上・中・下). 岩波文庫).

Tanizaki, J. (1985). Chijin no Ai Naomi. Iwanami Bunko. (谷崎潤一郎. (1985). 痴人の愛. 岩波文庫).

Tanizaki, J. (1985). Tade Kuu Mushi Some Prefer Nettles. Iwanami Bunko. (谷崎潤一郎. (1985). 蓼喰う虫. 岩波文庫).

Tanizaki, J. (1975). In’ei Raisan In Praise of Shadows. Iwanami Bunko. (谷崎潤一郎. (1975). 陰翳礼讃. 岩波文庫).


Emotional Forensics | Dean Bowman
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