NOTES

1. Richard M. Lerner, Concepts and Theories of Human Development (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002).
2. Nicholas Rescher, Studies in Quantitative Philosophizing(Frankfurt: Ontos-Verlag, 2010), 20.
3. Joseph Melnick, “Editorial,” Gestalt Review 5 no. 3 (2001):161–166.
4. Thomas Mayor, “Hunters-Gatherers: The Original Libertarians,” Independent Review 16 no. 4 (2012): 485–500. Consider also Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
5. Gardiner Harris, “Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns to Drug Therapy,” New York Times, March 5, 2011, accessed August 27, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/health/ policy/06doctors.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2.
6. Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley, The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (New York: Harper Collins World, 2002).
7. In my experience, mental illnesses are not illnesses at all but rather people’s reaction to trying to navigate life’s problems without the proper tools.
8. Russell Howard Tuttle, “Human Evolution,” Encyclopedia Britannica, last modified April 16, 2015, accessed August 30,2015, https://www.britannica.com/science/human-evolution.
9. Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1962).
10. Barbara L. Fredrickson, Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Think, Do, Feel, and Become (New York: Hudson Street Press, 2013). Fredrickson’s research validated my hypothesis that love was nourishment.
11. Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
12. Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey (New York: Plume, 2009).