___. Anxiety reduction following exercise and meditation. Cognitive Therapy and
Research, 1978, 2(4):323-333.
Baier, Karl. Chapter 7: Die psychologische Interpretation des Yoga vor der Tiefenpsychologie
and Chapter 8: Die tiefenpsychologische Rezeption des Yoga. In Karl Baier, Yoga auf dem Weg
nach Westen. Würzburg, Germany: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 1998, pp. 161-256.
Baker, M. A. The effects of hatha yoga and self-recording on trait anxiety and locus of control.
Doctoral dissertation, United States International University, 1979. Dissertation Abstracts
International, 1980, 41:680B.
Balaratnam, Sri. Vibrational breath therapy. Yoga Life, Jan 1994, 25(3):11-20.
Includes vibrational breath therapy for “neutralizing physical, mental, and emotional trauma
locked in the nervous system” (see p. 20).
Bali, L. R. Long-term effect of relaxation on blood pressure and anxiety level of essential
hypertensive males—a controlled study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 1979, 46(8):637-645.
Balodhi, J. P. Perspective of Raja yoga in its application to mental health. NIMHANS Journal,
1986, 4(2):133-138.
___, and H. Mishra. Patanjala yoga and behavior therapy. The Behavior Therapist,
1983, 6:196-197.
Balogh, Penelope. Gestalt awareness: A way of being as a yoga for the West. International
Journal of Social Psychiatry, Spring 1976, 22:64-66.
Barnes, Martina Glasscock. The meditation doctor: Depression. Yoga & Health, Aug 2004, pp.
13 - 14. Excerpted from Martina Glasscock Barnes, The Meditation Doctor: A Practical Approach
to Healing Common Ailments Through Meditation (Collins & Brown, 2004).
Barr, E. Integrated approach of yoga therapy for bronchial asthma, anxiety neurosis, psychosis,
and paralysis. Vivekananda Kendra Yoga Research Foundation, 1991.
Bass, C., and W. Gardner. Emotional influences on breathing and breathlessness. J Psychosom
Res, 1985, 29(6):599-609.
Batcheller, Lori. Yoga and emotions. Kripalu Online, Aug 2005.
Bathgate, David. Psychiatry, religion and cognitive science. Australian and New Zealand
Journal of Psychiatry, Jun 2003, 37(3):277-285. Author email: [email protected].
Abstract: Objective: To see whether certain findings in cognitive science can serve to bridge the
conceptual gap between psychiatry, particularly in its psychotherapeutic aspects, and
religious/spiritual understanding. Method: A brief review is given of certain basic differences
between psychiatric understanding in its psychotherapeutic aspects, and much of Western
religious/spiritual understanding. Reference is then made to certain findings in contemporary
cognitive science which might challenge the implicit mind body split of Western religious
tradition and its parallel in psychotherapeutic practice. Attention is also drawn to elements in