Books for Professionals

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. Social Construction on the Edge
      (2010) by: John Shotter
    2. New Horizons in Buddhist Psychology
      (2010) edited by: Maurits G.T. Kwee
    3. Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding
      (2010) by: Cynthia Sampson
    4. Joined Imaginations
      (2009) by: Peggy Penn, Ph.D.
    5. Celebrating The Other: A Dialogic Account of Human Nature
      (2008) by Edward E. Sampson
    6. Conversational Realities Revisited: Life, Language, Body and World
      (2008) by John Shotter
    7. Horizons in Buddhist Psychology
      edited by Maurits G.T. Kwee, Kenneth J. Gergen and Fusako Koshikawa
    8. Therapeutic Realities: Collaboration, Oppression and Relational Flow
      by Kenneth J. Gergen
    9. Experiential Learning Exercises In Social Construction: A Field Book for Creating Change (2004)
      by Robert Cottor, Alan Asher, Judith Levin, and Cindy Weiser, The Institute for Creative Change
    10. Dialogues About a New Psychology
      by Jan Smedslund
    11. SocioDynamic Counselling: A Practical Approach to Meaning Making
      by Dr. R.Vance Peavy

Social Construction on the Edge: 'Withness'-Thinking and Embodiment



by John Shotter
Taos Institute Publications, 2010

This is a book for practitioners, for people who, like crafts-persons or sports-people, must continually shape or fashion their conduct both within the immediate allowances or opportunities for action afforded them by their circumstances, whilst at the same time, aiming at an overall goal of 'bettering' those circumstances, and their performances within them, in some way.
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Price: $25.00 plus shipping and handling
Paperback, 260 pages

ISBN:
13-digit: 978-0-9819076-4-2

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New Horizons in Buddhist Psychology: Relational Buddhism for Collaborative Practitioners



edited by Maurits G.T. Kwee
Taos Institute Publications, 2010

This volume, a sequel of Horizons in Buddhist Psychology: Practice, Research & Theory, is for all who wish to read about cutting-edge developments in Buddhist Psychology and will be of special interest to professionals (coaches, clinicians, teachers), scholars of various academic disciplines (medicine and the social sciences), as well as to the informed public attracted to meditation (students and experts).
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Price: $35.00 plus shipping and handling
Paperback, 478 pages

ISBN:
13-digit: 978-0-9819076-6-6


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Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding: A Resource for Innovators

by Cynthia Sampson
Taos Institute Publications, Reprinted in 2010

Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding presents an innovative perspective on peacebuilding that breaks new ground.
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Price:  $25.00 plus shipping and handling
Paperback, 436 pages

ISBN:
13-digit: 978-0-9819076-3-5


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Joined Imaginations: Writing and Language in Therapy


by Peggy Penn, Ph.D.
Taos Institute Publications, 2009

This book is about language and writing intherapy. Joined Imaginations draws upon Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of “dialogism in therapy” and  illustrates how we author ourselves in conversation with others.
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Price: $24.00 plus shipping and handling
Paperback, 149 pages

ISBN: 9780981907611

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Celebrating The Other: A Dialogic Account of Human Nature

by Edward E. Sampson
Taos Institute Publications, 2008

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.
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Price: $28.00 plus shipping and handling
Paperback, 207 pages

ISBN:
13-digit: 978-0-9819076-0-4

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Conversational Realities Revisited: Life, Language, Body and World

by John Shotter
Taos Institute Publications, 2008

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.

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Price: $25.00 plus shipping and handling
Paperback, 204 pages

ISBN:
13-digit: 978-0-9712312-5-2

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Horizons in Buddhist Psychology

edited by Maurits G.T. Kwee, Kenneth J. Gergen and Fusako Koshikawa
Taos Institute Publications, 2006

This book is for those who are interested in Buddhist teachings and all who seek routes to growth in human well-being, particularly therapists, coaches, and scientists.
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Price: $40 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)
Paperback, 522 pages

ISBN: 0-9712312-6-5
13-digit: 978-0-9712312-6-9

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Therapeutic Realities: Collaboration, Oppression and Relational Flow

by Kenneth J. Gergen
Taos Institute Publications, 2005

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.
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Price: $32 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)
Paperback, 279 pages

ISBN:
10-digit: 0-7880-2166-4
13-digit: 978-0-7880-2166-4

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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
Taos Institute Publications, 2004

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.
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Price: $24.95 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)
Paperback, 136 pages

ISBN:
10-digit: 0-7880-2122-2
13-digit: 978-0-7880-2122-0

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Dialogues About a New Psychology

by Jan Smedslund
Taos Institute Publications, 2004

This book presents a new paradigm for psychology. It is written in the form of dialogues between three fictional psychologists. In twelve sessions they develop a novel approach to psychology as the study of persons.
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Price $27:00  New SALE Price $14.00 plus shipping and handling
Paperback, 253 pages

ISBN:
10-digit: 0-7880-2115-x
13-digit: 978-0-7880-2115-2

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SocioDynamic Counselling:  A Practical Approach to Meaning Making

by Dr. R.Vance Peavy
Taos Institute Publications, 2004

The volume represents a distillation of a lifetime's work in teaching, research, and practice in the domain of counseling. Rich in insight and clear in exposition, the volume illuminates the intricate processes of relationship in the counseling process.
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Price: $20 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)
Paperback, 137 pages

ISBN:
10-digit: 0-9712312-4-9
13-digit: 978-0-9712312-4-5