Books From Around the World
The Taos Institute welcomes the following contributions written by colleagues around the world.

Our first two books in this series are:
On Emotions: A Developmental Social Constructionist Account, by Peter Bodor from Hungary
Ethical Ways Of Being, by Dirk Kotze, Johan Myburg, Johann Roux, and Associates from South Africa

Taos Institute Books in Translation  

On Emotions: A Developmental Social Constructionist Account (2004)
by Peter Bodor

This book aims to analyze and uncover certain characteristics and processes of human emotional life and emotional development. Throughout the book a social constructionist framework will be worked out and applied parallel to a developmental perspective. The originality of this approach to emotions represented by the following theoretical and empirical investigations lies in an attempt to adopt a binocular vision of psychology as a discipline which takes as its subject human beings as developing social beings.

This is an important contribution to a constructionist understanding of emotions. Not only does this work make significant connection with philosophical, psychological and social issue related to emotional expression, but offers innovative research on emotional development. Bodor's work is of far-reaching significance and deserving of the widest audience.

Peter Bodor teaches courses on Social Psychology in Budapest, and on Language Acquisition and Linguistic Socialization at the University of Vienna.

170 pages; $20 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)
L' Hartman Publishers, Hungary.
ISBN: 963-9457-76-0

Ethical Ways of Being (2002)
by Dirk Kotze, Johan Myburg, Johann Roux, and Associates

Ethical Ways Of Being explores our search for ethicising ideas and practice in the world of doing and researching care, counselling and therapy. In a culture of scientific "knowledge" and religious "truths", people often become objects of the superior knowledge "experts" have about them. People are subsequently "studied", "diagnosed", "treated", "prescribed" and their own wisdoms and experiences are silenced or ignored.

The authors argue for a participatory ethicising approach that includes the voices of all, especially those affected most by being silenced, marginalized, or oppressed. This book is not about specific or controversial ethical issues, but about everyday life in a world of politics and power, where some benefit and many suffer.

Reflections on the ideas of ethicising participation find their way into the various stories that retell our diverse struggles in doing ethics with, rather than about people.

The authors are from the Institute for Therapeutic Development (ITD) in South Africa.

327 pages; $25 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)
ISBN: 0-9584328-3-X