Kenneth Gergen
Visiting professor
Kenneth J. Gergen is Professor of Psychology of the Swarthmore College (USA). He is considered to be one of the fathers of Constructivism and has an interest in the narrative of the self, in the processes of social construction, in discursive?? psychology, in the theory of formation/training and valuation, in relational theory, in the rhetoric of research and in critics/criticism of culture. He is an energetic speaker, lecturing all over the world. Furthermore, he is a co-founder, President of the Taos Institute which is a community of scholars and professionals united with the aims of exploring, developing and extending the idea of constructivism in different contexts.
14/10/2005 workshop titled Social Constructionism and Psychotherapy
Publications
- An invitation to social construction.
London: Sage:1999 - Relational responsibility.
Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage:1999 - A terapia como construcao social
Porto Alegre: Artes Medicas:1998 - La terapia come costruzione sociale
Milano: Franco Angeli:1998 - Psychological discourse in historical perspective.
New York: Cambridge University Press:1996 - La terapia como construccion social
Barcelona: Paidos:1996 - Management and organization: Relational alternatives to individualism.
Aldershot: Avebury:1995 - Realities and relationships: Soundings in social construction.
Cambridge, Harvard University Press; Spanish editi:1994 - Refiguring self and psychology.
Hampshire: Dartmouth Publishing Co.:1993 - Therapy as social construction.
London: Sage:1991 - Everyday understanding: Social and scientific implications.
London: Sage:1990 - Texts of identity
London: Sage:1989 - Metapsychology: The analysis of psychological theory.
New York: Praeger:1987 - The social construction of the person.
New York: Springer-Verlag:1985
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