Published Books

  • The self in social interaction, Vol. 1: Classic and current perspectives. New York: Wiley & Sons, 1968 (edited with C. Gordon).
  • The study of policy formation. New York: Free Press, 1968, (edited with R. A. Bauer).
  • Personality and social behavior. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1979 (edited with D. Marlowe).
  • The concept of self. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.
  • The psychology of behavior exchange. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1969. Also published in 1973, A psicologia do intercambio do comportamento (D. M. Leite, trans.), Sao Palo: P.E. Blucher, Ltd. Also translated and published in Japanese, 1978, Tokyo: Seishin Shobo.
  • Social psychology: Explorations in understanding. (1974) (edited with D. Rosenhan, R. Nisbett, & G. Clapp), CRM Books.
  • Social psychology in transition. New York: Plenum, 1977 (edited with L. H. Strickland & F. Aboud).
  • Social exchange: Advances in theory and research. New York: Plenum Press, 1980 (edited with M. Greenberg & R. Willis).
  • Social psychology. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, Inc., 1981 (with M. Gergen). Second edition, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986. Translated as Psicologia Sociala. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2nd Ed. 1986; Translated as Psycholgoie Sociale. Quebec: Etudes Vivantes, 2nd Ed. 1992 (with S. Jutras.)
  • Instructor's handbook for social psychology. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, 1981 (with M. Gergen & B. S. Feinberg). Second edition, New York: Springer-Verlag (with M. Gergen).
  • The self concept: Advances in theory and research. Boston: Ballinger, 1981 (edited with M. Lynch & A. Norem-Hebeisen).
  • Toward transformation in social knowledge. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982. Second Edition, London: Sage, 1994. Japanese edition, Nakanishiya Shuppan, 1998.
  • Historical social psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum (edited with M. Gergen), 1984.
  • The social construction of the person. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1985 (edited with K. E. Davis).
  • Metapsychology: The analysis of psychological theory. New York: Praeger, 1987. (edited with H. J. Stam & T. B. Rogers).
  • Texts of identity. London: Sage (1989). (edited with J. Shotter).
  • Everyday understanding: Social and scientific implications. London: Sage, 1990 (edited with G. Semin).
  • The saturated self, Dilemmas of identity in contemporary life. New York: Basic Books (1991). Spanish edition, El yo saturado, Barcelona: Paidos. German edition, Das Ubersattigte Selbst, Heidelberg: Carl Auer, 1996. Greek edition, 1997.
  • Therapy as social construction. London: Sage (1991). (edited with S. McNamee). Spanish edition, La terapia como construccion social, Barcelona: Paidos, 1996. Portugese edition, A terapia como construcao social, Porto Alegre: Artes Medicas, 1998: Japanese edition, 1997; Italian edition, La terapia come costruzione sociale, Milano: Franco Angeli, 1998.
  • Refiguring self and psychology. Hampshire: Dartmouth Publishing Co. (1993).
  • Reality and relationships, Soundings in social construction. Cambridge, Harvard University Press (1994). Spanish edition, Realidades y Relaciones, Barcelona: Paidos; Danish edition, Virkelighed og relationer, Dansk Psykologisk Forlag, 1997.
  • Management and organization: Relational alternatives to individualism. Aldershot: Avebury (1995). (edited with D. Hosking and H.P. Dachler).
  • Psychological discourse in historical perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (edited with C.F. Graumann).
  • Relational responsibility. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage. With S. McNamee, 1999
  • An invitation to social construction. London: Sage, 1999
  • Social construction in context. London: Sage, 2001.
  • The Appreciative Organization. Cleveland: Taos Publications. With H. Anderson, D. Cooperrider, M. Gergen, S. McNamee, and D. Whitney. (2002)
  • Social construction, a reader. London: Sage. Edited with M. Gergen, 2003.
  • Die Werstschatzende Organisation, Bieldefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2004 (Edited with K. Deissler).
  • Social Construction, Entering the Dialogue. Cleveland: Taos Institute Publications. 2004. With M. Gergen. Italian translation, 2005, Logos Edizione; Danish translation, 2005, Dansk Psykologisk Forlag; French translation, 2006, Satas; Serbian translation, 2006, Zepter. Spanish translation: Paidos (in press) German translation in process.
  • Construire la realite, Un nouvel avenir pour la psychotherapie. Paris: Editions du Seuil (2005). Also, Construir la realidad, El futuro de la psicoterapia. Barceolona: Paidos. 2007.
  • Therapeutic realities, collaboration, oppression and relational flow. Cleveland: Taos Institute Publications (2006)
  • Horizons in Buddhist Psychology. Chagrin Falls, OH: Taos Institute Publications (edited with M. Kwee and F. Koshikawa.) (2006)
  • Construccionismo Social, Aportes para el debate. (Edited by M. Estrada Mesa and S. Diazgranados Ferrans) Bogota: Universidad de los Andes Press (2007)
  • Meaning in action, Constructions, narratives, and representations. New York: Haworth. (Edited with T. Sugiman, W. Wagner, and Y. Yamada) 2008.
  • Constructing worlds together, interpersonal Communication as Relational Process. Boston: Pearson, (Edited with S. Schrader and M. Gergen) 2008
  • Relational being, beyond self and community. New York: Oxford University Press. (2009) Winner of the PROSE Award (Professional and Scholarly Excellence), Association of American Publishers, 2010, and the Erving Goffman award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction, Media Ecology Association, 2010. Danish translation, 2010, Dansk Psykologisk Forlag. Chinese translation in process.
  • Playing with Purpose: Adventures in performative social science. Alta Mira Press. (2012) With M. Gergen.