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Articles and Book Chapters:
Aden, L. (1984). The challenge of Becker: a new approach to pastoral care. Journal of Psychology and Christianity 3:74-79.
Alford, C. F. (2002). Inflicting evil as an alternative to the dread of dying: An independent test of generative death anxiety. In Liechty, D. (ed.) Death and Denial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker (pp. 17-28). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing.
___(2006) Talking about evil even when it is not supposed to exist. In Mason, T. (ed.) Forensic Psychiatry (pp. 313-326) Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.
Arcaro, T. and Cox, T. (1988). Human existence as a waltz of eros and thanatos. Humanity and Society 12:75-94.
Bartlett, S. (2008). The humanistic psychology of human evil: Ernest Becker and Arthur Koestler. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 48: 340-363.
Benson, J. (1986). Ernest Becker: A new enlightenment view of evil? Dialog 25:101-107.
Bianchi, E. (1977). Death and transcendence in Ernest Becker. Religion in Life 46:460-475.
Bregman, L. (1984). Three psycho-mythologies of death: Becker. Hillman and Lifton. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 52:461-479.
Elgee, N. J. (2004) Laughing at Death. In Piven, J.S. (ed) The psychology of death in fantasy and history. (pp. 291-310). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Group.
Evans, D. (1979). The denial of death. Religious Studies Review 5:25-34.
Fee, D. (1992). Symbolic interaction and postmodernist possibilities. Symbolic Interaction, 15: 367-373.
Gold, J. (2005). Heroes and Villains. PsycCRITIQUES. Vol 50 (22).
Goldberg, C. (1995). The daimonic development of the malevolent personality. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 35: 7-36.
Goleman, D. (2002). Cognition creates character: Neurotic styles. In Liechty, D. (ed.) Death and Denial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker (pp. 41-50). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing.
Halling, S. (2000). Meaning beyond heroic illusions? Transcendence in everyday life. Journal of Religion and Health 39:143-158.
___ (2002). Forgiveness: From heroic illusion to human homecoming. In Liechty, D. (ed.) Death and Denial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker (pp. 29-41). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing.
Hanscomb, S. (2006 ) Contemporary existentialist tendencies in psychology. In Ashworh, P. and Chung, M. C. (eds). Phenomenology and Psychological Science: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 169-196). New York: Springer Verlag.
Hartz, G. (1980). The denial of death: Foundations for an integration of psychological and theological views of personality. Journal of Psychology and Theology 8:53-63.
Jacobs, H. (1981). Ernest Becker: A reconsideration. Humanity and Society 5:239-245.
Kalish, R. A. (1975). Facing Death: A Different Approach. PsycCRITIQUES. Vol 20 (3)
Karpf, F. (1976). More about Becker. Journal of the Otto Rank Association 2:26-30.
Kastenbaum, R. (1993). Reconstructing death in postmodern society. Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying 27:75-89.
Kenel, S. (1998). A heroic vision. Zygon: The Journal of Religion & Science, 33:59-70
Killilea, A. (1980). Death consciousness and social consciousness. Omega 11:185-200.
Kopas, J. (1982). Becker’s anthropology: The shape of finitude. Horizons 9:23-36.
Krantz, D. L. (2005). Retrospection: What Hope for Mankind? PsycCRITIQUES. Vol 50 (45).
Kramer, R. (2007). The journals of Ernest Becker, 1964-1969. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 47: 430-473.
Langs, R. 2002). Three forms of death anxiety. In Liechty, D. (ed.) Death and Denial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker (pp. 73-84). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing.
Liechty (2006). Principalities and powers: A social science perspective. In R. Gingerich and T. Grimrud (eds.) Transforming the Powers: Peace, Justice, and the Domination System. Pp. 39-52. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.
___(2006). Mortality, denial and truth: Diffusing the rancor in conflicting cultural worldviews. Eidos: International Readings on Theory, History and Philosophy of Culture, 22: 254-267.
___(2006). Terror and transference. In J. Piven, C. Boyd and H. Lawton (eds.) Terrorism, jihad and sacred vengeance (2d edition). Pp. 248-258. Giessen, Germany: Psychosocial-Verlag.
___(2003). Fascination with violence as a response to mortality awareness. In A. Roland, B. Ulanov and C. Barbre, eds., Creative Dissent: Psychoanalysis in evolution: The impact of culture on psychotherapy. pp. 161-172. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, Inc.
___(2003). Who in their right mind wants a war? Violence, death and meaning. The Psychoanalytic Review, 90: 440-456.
__(2002). Assumptive world in the context of transference relationships. In J. Kauffman, ed. The assumptive world in grief counseling. pp. 83-93. Philadelphia, PA: Brunner-Routledge.
__(2002) The idol and the idolizers: Ernest Becker’s theory of expanded transference as a tool for historical criticism and interpretation, with an addendum on transference and terrorism. In J S. Piven, P. Ziolo and H. W. Lawton, eds. Psychological undercurrents of history: Volume II: Terror and apocalypse, pp. 268-285. New York: iUniverse.
___(2000). Touching mortality, touching strength: Working with dying patients. Journal of Religion and Health, 39: 247-260.
___(1999). The Denial of Death – revisited. Death Studies, 4:757-760.
___(1998). Reaction to mortality: An interdisciplinary organizing principle for the human sciences. Zygon: The Journal of Science and Religion, 33:45-59.
___(1998). An Ernest Becker annotated bibliography. Zygon: The Journal of Science and Religion, 33: 87-90.
___(1998). Reading Ernest Becker: His contribution to spiritual, pastoral and psychological counseling. American Journal of Pastoral Counseling, 1: 49-69.
Lipman-Blumen, J. (2008). Following toxic leaders: In search of posthumous praise. In Riggio, R. E, Chaleff, I. and Lipman-Blumen, J., (eds). The art of followership: How great followers create great leaders and organizations. (pp. 181-194). San Francisco, CA, US: Jossey-Bass.
Maccoby, M. (1970). Toward a Humanistic Social Psychology. PsycCRITIQUES. Vol 15 (9)
McCarthy, E. (1981). The sources of human destructiveness: Ernest Becker’s theory of human nature. Thought 56:44-57.
McCarthy, J. B. (2002). Death anxiety and the psychotherapeutic process. In Liechty, D. (ed.) Death and Denial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker (pp. 63-72). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing.
McDargh. J. (1983). Psychoanalytic object relations theory and the study of religion: On faith and the imaging of God. Lanham. MD: University Press of America.
Mendelowitz, E. D. (2006). Meditations on Oedipus: Becker’s Kafka, Nietzsche’s Metamorphoses. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 46: 385-431.
Meltzer, H. (1976). Is the World We Live in So Hard to Love? PsycCRITIQUES. Vol 21 (9)
Mowrey, M. (1992). Dualism and the dialectic: a reconsideration of the problem of evil in the work of Ernest Becker. (Unpublished).
___ (2002). The religious hero and the escape from evil: A feminist challenge. In Liechty, D. (ed.) Death and Denial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker (pp. 269-280). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing.
Munley, P. H. and Johnson, P. D. (2003). Ernest Becker: A vital resource for counselling psychology. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 16: 363-372.
Paris, W. A. (1988). Heroic struggle: A medieval and modern dilemma. Journal of Religion and Health 27: 143-153.
Piven, J. S. (2002). Transference as religious solution to the terror of death. In Liechty, D. (ed.) Death and Denial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legacy of Ernest Becker (pp. 237-246). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing.
Scimecca, J. (1978). The educational theory of Ernest Becker. Journal of Educational Thought 12:100-10
___(1979). Cultural hero systems and religious beliefs: the ideal-real social science of Ernest Becker. Review of Religious Research 21:70-72.
Schneider, K. J. (2008). Rediscovering awe: A new front in humanistic psychology, psychotherapy, and society. Canadian Journal of Counselling, 42: 67-74.
Sontag, F. (1981). Anthropodicy or theodicy? A discussion with Becker’s The Structure of Evil. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 49:267-274.
Webb, E. (1998). Ernest Becker and the psychology of world views. Zygon: The Journal of Science and Religion, 33:71-86.
Books and Dissertations with Substantial Discussions of Becker’s Work
Bregman, L. (1992). Death in the midst of life: Perspectives on death from Christianity and depth psychology. Grand Rapids. MI: Baker Book House.
Du Bois, W. and Wright, R. D. (2007). Politics in the human interest: Applying sociology in the real world. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield.
Evans, R. (1992). The creative myth and the cosmic hero: Text and context in Ernest Becker’s The denial of Death. New York: Peter Lang.
Farrell, K. (1989). Play, death and heroism in Shakespeare. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Firestone, R.. and Catlett, J. (1989). Psychological defenses in everyday life. New York: Human Sciences.
Gerkin, C. (1979). Crisis experience in modern life: Theory and theology for pastoral care. Nashville, TN: Abingdon.
Harvey, V. (1995). Feuerbach and the interpretation of religion. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kenel, S. (1988). Mortal Gods: Ernest Becker and fundamental theology. Lanham. MD: University Press of America.
Kopp, S. (1978). An end to innocence: Facing life without illusions. New York: Macmillan.
Liechty, D. (2003). Reflecting on faith in a post-Christian time. Telford, PA: Cascadia Press.
___(1995). Transference and transcendence: Ernest Becker’s contribution to psychotherapy. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc.
Loy, D. R. (1996). Lack and transcendence: The problem of death and life in psychotherapy, existentialism and Buddhism. Atlantic-Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.
Martin, S. W. (1997). Decomposing modernity: Ernest Becker’s images of humanity at the end of an age. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
Piven, J.S. (2004). Death and delusion: A Freudian analysis of mortal terror. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Schneider, K. (1990). The paradoxical self: Toward an understanding of our Contradictory Nature. New York: Plenum.
Suzuki, N. (2004). The search for resiliency: An exploration of the human potential for dignity in an age of crisis. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering. Vol 65(3-B), 2004, pp. 1582.
Westphal, M. (1984). God, guilt and death: An existential phenomenology of religion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Selected Further Readings in Terror Management Theory
Arndt, J., Cook, A. and Routledge, C. (2004). The blueprint of terror management: Understanding the cognitive architecture of psychological defense against the awareness of death. In Greenberg, J., Koole, S. and Pyszczynski, T. (eds) Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology. (pp. 35-53). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Florian, V. and Mikulincer, M. (1997). Fear of death and the judgment of social transgressions: a multidimensional test of terror. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 73:369–380.
Goldenberg, J.L., Pyszczynski, T., et al. (2000). Fleeing the body: A terror management perspective on the problem of human corporeality. Personality and Social Psychology Review 4: 200–218.
Goldenberg, J.L., Pyszczynski, T., et al. (2001). I am not an animal: Mortality salience, disgust, and the denial of human creatureliness. Journal of Experimental Psychology 130: 427–435.
Greenberg, J., Pyszczynski, T., et al. (1990). Evidence for terror management theory II. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58: 308–318.
Greenberg, J., Solomon, S., et al. (1997). Terror management theory of self-esteem and cultural worldviews: Empirical assessments. Advances in experimental social psychology 29: 61-139.
Mikulincer, M., Florian, V. and Hirschberger, G. (2003). The existential function of close relationships. Introducing death into the science of love. Personality and Social Psychology Review 7: 20–40.
Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., and Solomon, S. (1997). Why do we need what we need? A terror management perspective on the roots of human social motivation. Psychological Inquiry 8: 1–20.
Pyszczynski, T., Greenberg, J., and Solomon, S. (1999). A dual process model of defense against conscious and unconscious death-related thoughts. Psychology Review 106: 835–845.
Rosenblatt, A., Greenberg, J., et al. (1989). Evidence for terror management theory I. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 57: 681–90.
Routledge, C. and Arndt, J. (2005). Time and Terror: Managing Temporal Consciousness and the Awareness of Mortality. In Strathman, A. and Joireman, J. (eds) Understanding behavior in the context of time: Theory, research, and application. (pp. 59-84). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
Simon, L., Arndt, J., et al. (1998). Terror management and meaning: Evidence that the opportunity to defend the worldview in response. Journal of Personality 66: 359-382.