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We are excited to bring to publication a new series for our readers. The Books for Professional series features extensive explorations of their subject matter. This series offer insights, practices and developments in social construction.
We have the following books in this series:
1. Celebrating
The Other : A Dialogic Account of Human Nature (2008) by Edward E.
Sampson
2. Conversational Realities Revisited:
Life, Language, Body and World (2008) by John Shotter
3. Horizons in Buddhist Psychology, edited by Maurits
G.T. Kwee, Kenneth J. Gergen and Fusako Koshikawa
4. Therapeutic Realities:
Collaboration, Oppression and Relational Flow, by Kenneth J.
Gergen
5. Experiential Learning
Exercises in Social Construction: A Field Book for Creating Change,
by Robert Cottor, Alan Asher, Judith Levin, and Cindy Weiser, The Institute
for Creative Change
6. Dialogues
About a New Psychology, by Jan Smedslund
7. SocioDynamic Counselling:
A Practical Approach to Meaning Making, by Dr. R.Vance Peavy
Celebrating
The Other: A
Dialogic Account of Human Nature (2008)
By Edward E. Sampson
In this important book, Sampson launches a new attack - this time on Western culture's centuries-long preoccupation with a contained, individualistic, monologic Self and its fearful suppression of all that is Other - all that is experienced as different from the implicit, self-affirming white male standard. This view, he demonstrates, focuses more on the leading protagonist and supporting cast that he has assembled to service his own interests, desires and fears, than on others as viable people in their own right.
Denying the Other so as to create a world secured on behalf of the dominant groups' interests has become an obsession driving not only the larger culture but also the human sciences, in particular psychology's theories of human nature. Women, African-Americans and others not of the dominant classes have been constructed as serviceable Others, and appear in textbooks, journals and popular accounts as figures whose images and everyday realities have been created to serve the dominant groups' desires.
Sampson uses the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin, George Herbert Mead, and postmodern and feminist theorists to reject this dangerous obsession and to create a dialogic foundation to replace the Other-suppressing views of psychology, and indeed, of all Western culture. Sampson's arguments are convincing, liberating, and have major implications for the human sciences and the people they claim to serve. 'Celebrating the Other' will change the way human nature is viewed and studied. As the author reminds us, in silencing the Other we distort our own situation and stunt our opportunities for growth - 'no one voice can be quoted without losing the greatest opportunity of all: to converse with otherness and to learn about our own otherness in and through those conversations.
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207 pages
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ISBN: 978-0-9819076-0-4
Conversational
Realities Revisited: Life, Language, Body and World (2008) |
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Conversational Realities Revisited is a new edition of John Shotter’s 1993 book Conversational Realities. Like the first edition, it contests the traditional scientific view that naturally occurring psychological and sociological realities of a systematic and structured kind are to be discovered underlying appearances. Instead, it claims that such orderly ‘realities’ are both socially constructed and sustained in existence only within the context of people’s disorderly, everyday conversational activities. However, this second edition is much more oriented toward practical issues than the first.
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Social constructionist thought transforms psychotherapy, opening new vistas in understanding and practice. This work provides a brief introduction to social construction, and then illuminates the landscape of change. Special emphasis is given to topics of therapeutic communication, narrative, and therapeutic practices both traditional and contemporary. Critical chapters focus on the oppression of psychodiagnostic categories and the neuro/biological and pharmaceutical investments that support them. Additional chapters provide a range of insights into the poetics of therapy, collaborative practices with clients, and the broader flow of relationships in which therapy takes place. Lively discussions with therapy doyens, Mony Elkaim and Michael Hoyt, conclude the work. This book contains Kenneth Gergen's major contributions to therapeutic thought and practice. Earlier writings are updated and orchestrated, and original chapters added to reflect his most recent thinking on therapy as a process of collaborative construction. [more information] |
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This field book presents exercises that have been organized into Learning Labs that will invite innovative thinking and practice with those familiar with social construction theory as well as those who are newcomers to constructionist thinking. Learning Labs are designed to generate new thinking about diverse societal and professional issues. These exercises promote and enhance creative change strategies for mental health, educational and organizational development professionals. [more
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