Many scholarly journals are utilized in this course, many are covered in this review and all are peer-reviewed. Journals not covered include Journal Of Genetic Psychology, Journal Of Personality Assessment, Journal of Clinical Psychology and The University Of Chicago Magazine.

Journal Of Religion And Psychical Research. Marry Brown's "Memoirs Of A Mystic" is published in Journal Of Religion And Psychical Research, a scholarly quarterly dealing with religion, psychical research, and related topics, published by The Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, an academic affiliate of Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship International.

Psychoanalytic Review. Burton's article "Hope And Schizophrenia," (1973) comes from the Psychoanalytic Review, a journal published by The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP). From the publishers, "Founded in 1913, The Psychoanalytic Review has been, historically, and continues to be, opposed to dogma, rigidity and exclusionism. While maintaining the highest standards of scholarship, it is the only established journal that is committed to a psychoanalytic exploration of, not only the clinical domain, but also the realm of general culture. NPAP is proud to publish the Review as a public representation of the NPAP philosophy of openness, critical inquiry, and psychoanalytic scientific humanism.

Bulletin Of The Menninger Clinic. Many articles from the Bulletin are used in this course, including Karl Menninger's "Hope" and Pruyser's "Maintaining Hope In Adversity." The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic offers a psychodynamic perspective on the application of theory and research in outpatient psychotherapy, attachment theory, developments in cognitive neuroscience and psychopathologies, as well as the integration of different modes of therapy. This widely indexed, peer-reviewed journal has been published since 1936 by the Menninger Clinic. Topical issues focus on critical subjects such as disordered attachments, panic disorder, trauma, and evidence-based interventions.

Nursing Research. This journal, published by The Eastern Nursing Research Society and the Western Institute of Nursing for over 50 years, covers issues of health promotion, human responses to illness, acute care nursing research, symptom management, cost-effectiveness, vulnerable populations, health services, and community-based nursing studies. J. F. Miller and M. J. Powers' article, "Development Of An Instrument To Measure Hope," is used in this course.

The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association, publishes original papers in all areas of personality and social psychology. It emphasizes empirical reports but may include specialized theoretical, methodological, and review papers. The journal is divided into three independently edited sections: Attitudes and Social Cognition, Interpersonal Relationships and Group Processes, Personality Processes and Individual Differences. "The Will And The Ways: Development And Validation Of An Individual- Differences Measure Of Hope," by Snyder, Harris, Anderson, Holleran, Irving, Sigmon, Yoshinobu, Gibb, Langelle, and Harney is included in this course.

The Interpreter's Dictionary Of The Bible: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Vol. II. (1962) Edited by Buttrick, George Arthur. This four-volume dictionary composed of a series of articles. According to the title page, the work is an encyclopedia identifying and explaining all proper names and subjects in the Bible and the Apocrypha.

Erik Erikson, author of Insight And Responsibility was born in Germany in 1902. He immigrated to the USA in 1933, and taught at both Yale and Harvard Universities. Known as "the father of psychosocial development," Erikson emphasized society's influence on the development of the psyche. His theory is grounded in Freudian psychoanalysis, and its focus on unconscious roots of personality. Erikson is famous for his theory that there are eight states in the life span. Each stage must be resolved before the next may be dealt with. Erikson published Childhood and Society; Young Man Luther; Insight and Responsibility; and Identity: Youth and Crisis.

Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning, is an account of Frankl's experience in a concentration camp during the Nazi Holocaust. Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist observed that survivors were those who could envision a future for themselves and meaning in their life, despite their suffering. He developed logotherapy a psychological treatment designed to help patients find a meaning in one's life and their by improve mental. The Viktor-Frankl-Institute is a non-profit scientific society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis in Vienna, Austria.

Joining Hands: Politics And Religion Together For Social Change by Rober Gottlieb. From the editor, "Gottlieb, a humanities professor, concedes his own leftist politics and religious perspective as he takes to task liberals and conservatives, the religious and the secular, and social thinkers and policymakers in this absorbing look at the merger of religion and politics in tackling social issues. He notes the widespread view in developed nations that political life should be secular and the historic antagonism between religion and politics. But Gottlieb sees 'profound shifts in economics, political culture, technology and political life' that are creating 'the prospect of religion and politics remaking the world together.' Religious leaders cannot actualize their own moral teachings without some political understanding of the world, he asserts. Gottlieb considers the philosophies and approaches of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Reinhold Niebuhr, the Dalai Lama, Oscar Romero, and other theologians, social activists, and political commentators in confronting raging social and moral issues. He explores the values religion and progressive politics bring to their respective spheres and their potential to offer a common vision in addressing a range of issues, including human rights, the environment, globalization, and world poverty."

Embracing The Spirit: Womanist Perspective On Hope, Salvation And Transformation edited by Emilie M. Townes is a collection of essays, of which "My Hope Is In The Lord," by Diana Hayes is used in this course. A sequel to Emilie Townes's A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering, Embracing The Spirit contains essays by leading womanist theologians, interweaving a concern for matters of race, gender, and class, as these bear on the survival and well-being of the African-American community. In Embracing the Spirit the emphasis is not on evil and suffering, but on 'hope, salvation, and transformation' for individuals and their communities.

Gabriel Marcel, (1889-1973) was a drama critic, playwright, musician, and philosopher of what he termed "Christian Existentialism." Of his numerous philosophical publications and some thirty dramatic works The Existential Background Of Human Dignity and Homo Viator: Prolegomenes A Une Metaphysique De 1'esperance (Man The Wayfarer: Introduction To A Metaphysic Of Hope) are used in this course. In 1949 and 1950 Marcel gave the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen, which later appeared in print as The Mystery of Being, and the William James Lectures at Harvard in 1961-1962, which later appeared as The Existential Background of Human Dignity.

Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-1971), author of Therapeutic Consultations In Child Psychiatry was a pediatrician and psychoanalyst. Winnicott treated psychically disturbed children and their mothers developing such concepts as the "holding environment," and the "transitional object," (parent's know it as a security blanket). He had a major impact on object relations theory, which focused on familiar and inanimate objects that children use to stave off anxiety during times of stress. His theoretical writings emphasized empathy and imagination.