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Articles In Refereed Journals
“Hurting and Healing in Gaza,” San Francisco Medicine, Sept 2007, pp 12-13
“Conversations: James S. Gordon, MD: Connecting Mind, Body, and Beyond,”Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine, Mar/Apr 2006
“Jim Gordon's Gaza Diary,” Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine, Part1- Jan/Feb 2006, Part2- Mar/Apr 2006
“MindBodySpirit Medicine” in Seminars in Oncology Nursing , Aug 2005, Vol. 21, No. 3, 154-8 (2005)
“Effectiveness of a Mind-Body Skills Training Program for Healthcare Professionals” in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Vol. 11, No. 4, Jul-Aug 2005, pp. 36-41.
“The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and the Future of Healthcare” in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Vol. 10, No. 5, Sept-Oct 2004, pp. 20-23.
“Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Postwar Kosovo High School Students Using Mind-Body Skills Groups: A Pilot Study” in Journal of Traumatic Stress, Vol. 17, No. 2, April 2004, pp. 143-147 (2004)
“Toward Comprehensive Cancer Care” in Integrative Cancer Therapies, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 330-331 (2003)
“Asian Spiritual Traditions and Their Usefulness to Practitioners and Patients Facing Life and Death” in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 603-608 (2002)
“Mind-Body Medicine Analysis” in Integrative Cancer Therapies, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 255-257 (2002)
“Psycho-Oncology 2001: Papers from the 4th Comprehensive Cancer Care Conference, October 19-21, 2001” in Integrative Cancer Therapies, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 133-134 (2002)
“Collaboration, Consensus, and Challenges: A Progress Report” in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 23-24 (2001)
“Creating Comprehensive Cancer Care” in Cancer Practice, Vol. 9, No.1, pp. 47-49 (2001)
“The White House Comission in Washington, DC and Washington State” in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 24-26 (2001)
“The White House Comission and the Future of Healthcare” in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp.26-28 (2000)
“Raising Questions about Antidepressands” With David O. Antonuccio et al in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 68:3-14 (1999)
“Alternative Medicine and the Family Physician” in American Family Physician, Vol. 54, No. 7, pp. 2205-2212 (1996)
“The Voices of Experience and the Process of Change in Medicine” in Alternative Therapies, Vol. 2, No. 3, 95-96 (1996)
“Holistic Medicine and Mental Health Practice: Toward a New Synthesis” in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 357-370 (1990)
“The Cult Phenomenon and the Psychotherapeutic Response” in Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 11, No. $, pp. 603-615 (1983)
“Holistic Medicine: Advances and Shortcomings” in The Western Journal of Medicine, Vol. 136, No. 6, pp. 546-551 (1982)
“Psychiatry and Alternative Services” in American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 139, No. 5, pp. 653-656 (1982)
“Holistic Medicine: Toward a New Medical Model” in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 139, No. 5, pp. 653-656 (1982)
“Freedom from Pain” by David Bresler, a book review, American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 138, No. 2, p. 273 (1981)
“The Runaway Center as Community Mental Health Center” in American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 135, No. 9, pp. 932-935 (1978)
“Group Homes: Alternative to Institutions” in Social Work, Vol. 23, 300-305 (1978)
“Alternative Group Foster Homes: A New Place for Young People to Live” in Family Process, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 339-354 (1976)
“Working with Runaways and Their Families: How the SAJA Community Does It” in Family Process, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 235-236 (1975)
“The Washington, DC Runaway House” in Journal of Community Psychology, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp 68-80 (1975)
Popular Articles“Surviving Kosovo’s War Was Hard. So Is the Peace” in The Washington Post “Outlook”, February 22, 2004
“The Risk of Taking the Right Drugs” in The Washington Post “Outlook”, August 17, 2003
“Treatment, Support Groups Assist Torture Survivors” in The Washington Diplomat, August 2003
“Holistic Approach Eases Stress, PTSD” in Clinical Psychiatry News, May 2003
“Stress: It’s Impossible to Avoid, but Possible to Conquer ” in The New York Times, April 15, 2003
“Play of Consciousness ” in Common Ground, Spring 2003
“Tired of Killer ‘Cures’?” in The Washington Post “Health”, August 20, 2002.
“Why ‘Later’ Won’t Do in Kosovo” in The Washington Post “Outlook”, September 27, 1998.
“Fewer Pills...Fewer Bills: How to Make the Most of Alternative Medicine” in Bottom Line Personal, Vol. 18, No. 5, March 1, 1997
“Unconventional Medicine Deserves Mainstream Attention” in The Washington Post “Outlook,” October 6, 1996
“Alternative Medicine Moves Mainstream: What Alternative Medicine Can Do for You, When to Use It, How to Use It“ in Bottom Line Personal, April 1, 1996
“Someone to Watch Over Us” in The New York Times Book Review, May 1, 1994
“Pity and Terror in Waco” in Common Boundary, May/June, 1994
“Reviving the Spirit of Medicine—Principles for Health Care Reform” in Pathways, Fall, 1993
“Healing with Feeling” in The Washington Post “Outlook,” August 29, 1993
“Healing from Within” in Viewer's Guide: Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers, 1993
“Healing from Within” in Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers: A Resource Guide, 1993
“Alternative Medicine” in Bottomline, Volume 14, Number 11, June 15, 1993
“On Borderlines” in The Atlantic Monthly, January, 1993
“The Oriental Cure” in The Atlantic Monthly, October, 1992
“The UFO Experience” in The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1991
“The Inner Life” in The Atlantic Monthly, May, 1991
“Understanding the Secret Self” in The Washington Post “Health Section,” June 12, 1990
“Why Spiritual Groups Go Awry” in Common Boundary, May-June, 1990
“R.D. Laing Remembered” in The Psychiatric Times, April 1990
“Jim Jones' Temple of Doom” in The Washington Post “Outlook,” November 27, 1988
“Stern Sigmund's Rebel Son” in The Los Angeles Times Book Review, December 27, 1987
“Surviving the Bhagwan” in The Washington Post “Outlook,” October 18, 1987
“The Class of '62” in The Washington Post “Outlook,” June 14, 1987
“Remembering Rodrigo Rojas, Murdered in Chile” in The Washington Post “Outlook,” August 24, 1986
“Holistic Medicine: Fringe or Frontier” in Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, Winter, 1984
“Holistic Medicine and the Future of Health Care” in The New Physician, June, 1980
“The Boy Who Defected” in The Washington Star, September, 1980
“The Next Generation” in Children Today, July-August, 1980
“Jim Jones and His People” in The New York Time Book Review, January 7, 1979
“Demonic Children” in The New York Times Book Review, September, 1977
“New Roads to Mental Health” in The Washington Post “Outlook,” February 13, 1977
Testimony on “Foster Care for Young People”—House Select Committee on Education, September, 1976, Congressional Record, reprinted in SAJA Quarterly, November, 1976
“The Kids and the Cults” in Children Today, 1976
“Systems of Transformation, Myths of Integration: An Essay on C. G. Jung” in The New York Times Book Review, June 27, 1975
“The Death Immersion” in The New Republic, July 28—August 4, 1973
“The Vietnamization of Our Children” in The Washingtonian, November 1972
“Schizophrenia” in Collier's Yearbook for 1971, published 1972
“Who is Mad, Who is Sane?: R. D. Laing, In Search of a New Psychiatry” in The Atlantic, January, 1971
Monographs“Final Report of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy,” 2002
“Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons,” Office of Alternatice Medicine, government Printing Office, 1995
“Special Study on Alternative Services,” Volume II of the Reort to the President's Commission on Mental Health, Government Printing Office, 1978
Chapters In Books“Overview: Mind-Body Medicine” in Alternative Medicine: An Objective Assessment , American Medical Association , 2000
“Foreword” in Homeopathic Self-Care: The Quick and Easy Guide for the Whole Family by Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, N.D. and Robert Ullman, N.D. Prima Publishing, 1997.
“Foreword”in A Brain is Born: Exploring the Birth and Development of the Central Nervous System by John E. Upledger, D.O., O.M.M. North Atlantic Books and UI Enterprises, 1996.
“Foreword” in A Brain is Born: Exploring the Birth and Development of the CNS by John E. Upledger, D.O., O.M.M. North Atlantic Books and The Upledger Institute, Inc., 1996.
“The New Medicine” in Future Care: Responding to the Demand for Change, Faulkner & Gray’s 21st Century Health Care Series, Vol. 1, (Bezold and Mayer, editors) 1996
“Mind-Body Interventions” with Jeanne Achterberg, Ph.D., and Larry Dossey, M.D. in Report on the Status of Alternative Medicine.
“Alternative Medicine Should Be Considered Standard Medical Practice” in Health Care in America,” Opposing Viewpoints Series, (Bender & Leone, editors) 1994
“Foreword” in A Time to Heal by Daniel Redwood, A.R.E., 1994
“A Letter from Poona, November, 1989” in The Rajneesh Papers: Studies in a New Religious Movement, (Palmer and Sharma), Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1993
“Holistic Medicine and Mental Health Practice: Toward a New Synthesis” in Yearbook of Cross-Cultural Medicine and Psychotherapy, 1992
“Alone and Together” in On the Vineyard II (Simon, editor), 1990
“Psychiatry and the Krishnas” in The Hare Krishna Movement (Shinn and Bromley, editors), Bucknell University Press, 1990
“Crisis in Adolescence” in Issues and Trends in Health (Carlson and Newman, editors), CV Mosby and Co., 1987
“Holistic Medicine: Fringe or Frontier?” in The Holistic Health Handbook (Bliss, editor), Stephen Green Press, 1985
“Holistic Health Centers” in Alternative Medicine (Salmon, editor), Tavistock, 1984
“Foreword” in Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicine (Cummings and Ullman), Tarcher, 1984
“Toward an Integral Medicine” with James Fadiman in Mind, Body and Health: Toward an Integral Medicine, Human Sciences Press, 1984
“Alternatives in Mental Health” in Mind, Body and Health: Toward an Integral Medicine, Human Sciences Press, 1984
“Alternative Services and Mental Health” in Networking Human Systems, Human Sciences Press, 1984
“New Directions in Childbirth” with Doris Haire in Health for the Whole Person: The Complete Guide to Holistic Medicine, Westview Press, 1980 and Pregnancy, Childbirth and Parenthood, Plenum, 1981
“The Paradigm of Holistic Medicine” in Health for the Whole Person: The Complete Guide to Holistic Medicine, Westview Press, 1980
“Holistic Health Centers” in Health for the Whole Person: The Complete Guide to Holistic Medicine, Westview Press, 1980
“Running Away in America: The History and the Hope” in Uprooting and Development, Plenum, 1980
“Mental Health Services Now and for the Future” in Toward a New Definition of Health, Plenum, 1979
“Running Away: Reaction or Revolution?” in Adolescent Psychiatry, Volume VII, University of Chicago Press, 1979
“Consultation with Youth Projects” in Consultation in Community Settings, Jossey-Bass, 1979
“Mental Health for People” in The Federal Budget and Social Reconstruction, Transaction, New Brunswick, NY, 1978
“Consultation with Alternative Services for Young People” in Mental Health Consultation, National Institute of Mental Health, 1975
“Psychiatric Miseducation” in In Search of a Therapy, Doubleday, 1975
“The Uses of Madness” in In Search of a Therapy, Doubleday, 1975
“Who is Mad, Who is Sane? The Radical Psychiatry of R.D. Laing” in Going Crazy, Bantam, 1971 and in several textbooks of abnormal psychology
Articles in Non-Refereed Journals“Manifesto for a New Medicine” in Biofeedback, Fall 2003
“Manifesto for a New World Medicine”in Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine , 2000
“The Social Roots of the Wellness Movement” in Advances, Summer, 1994
“Holistic Health Centers” in The Journal of Holistic Medicine, Spring, 1981
“The Paradigm of Holistic Medicine” in The Holistic Health Review, Fall-Winter, 1980
“Mental Health Care in Cuba” in The Journal of Alternative Human Services, 1979
“Grass Roots Mental Health Services” in Social Policy, May-June, 1978
“Community Based Human Services: An Overview” in The Journal of Alternative Human Services, Spring, 1978
“Four Areas of Concern” in The Journal of Alternative Human Services, February, 1977
“Alternative Services in Transition” in The Journal of Alternative Human Services, Autumn, 1976
“Youth Helping Youth” in Social Policy, September-October, 1976
“Consultation with Alternative Services for Young People” in Social Policy, July-August, 1974
“The Uses of Madness” in Social Policy, September-October, 1973
“Psychiatric Miseducation” in Social Policy, July-August, 1973
In addition, Dr. James Gordon has published approximately 50 shorter book review/essays on subjects related to psychiatry, spirituality, medicine and social problems in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times and USA Today.
