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Drug and Prison Rehabilitation Publications

Orme-Johnson, D. W. (2011). Commentary: The Use of Meditation in Corrections. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 55(4), 662-664.

Hawkins, M. A., Orme-Johnson, D. W., & Durchholz, C. F. (2005). Fulfilling the rehabilitative ideal through the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs: Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 17(1) 443-488.

Orme-Johnson, D. W., & Moore, R. M. (2003). First prison study using the Transcendental Meditation program: La Tuna Federal Penitentiary. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 36, 89-96.

Alexander, C. N., & Orme-Johnson, D. W. (2003). Walpole study of the Transcendental Meditation program in maximum security prisoners II: Longitudinal study of development and psychopathology. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 36, 127-160.


Alexander, C. N., Walton, K. G., Orme-Johnson, D. W., Goodman, R. S., & Pallone, N. J. (Eds.). (2003). Transcendental Meditation in Criminal Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press,. (click here )

Goodman, R. S., Walton, K. G., Orme-Johnson, D. W., & Boyer, R. (2003). The Transcendental Meditation program—A consciousness-based developmental technology for rehabilitation and crime prevention. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 36, 1-34.

Gelderloos, P., Walton, K.G., Orme-Johnson, D.W. (1991). Transcendental Meditation and substance misuse: An overview. International Journal of the Addictions 26: 293–325.

Dillbeck, M.C., & Orme-Johnson, D.W. (1982, December). The use of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme in Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention . (Abstract)Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, 35.

Orme-Johnson, D.W, (1981). Prison rehabilitation and crime prevention through the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program. In L.H. Hippchen (ed.), Holistic Approaches to Offender Rehabilitation (Chapter 19). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Press.

Orme-Johnson, D. W. (1977). Scientific research on the Transcendental Meditation Program in the fields of law, justice and rehabilitation. In V. R. K. Iyer (Ed.), First World Assembly on Law, Justice and Rehabilitation West Germany: Maharishi European Research University Press.

Orme-Johnson, D. W., Arthur, G. K., Franklin, L., & O'Connell, J. (1972). The Transcendental Meditation technique and drug abuse counselors. In D. W. Orme-Johnson & J. T. Farrow (Eds.), Scientific research on the Transcendental Meditation program: Collected papers, Vol. 1 (pp. 597-599). Rheinweiler, W. Germany: MERU Press, 1977.

Orme-Johnson, D., Kiehlbauch, J., Moore, R., & Bristol, J. (1971). Personality and autonomic changes in prisoners practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique. In D. W. Orme-Johnson & J. T. Farrow (Eds.), Scientific research on the Transcendental Meditation program: Collected papers, Vol. 1 (pp. 556-561). Rheinweiler, W. Germany: MERU Press, 1977.