Ken Gergen

     
Institution
Swarthmore College

Current Position
Senior Research Professor

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Psychology from Duke University, 1962

Research Interests
Interpersonal Processes
Self/Identity

Courses Taught
Concepts of the Person
Identity and Community
Personality Theory and Interpretation
Reading Culture
Self and Other
Technology, Self, and Sociey
The Self Theory, Ideology and Practice

 
Ken Gergen
Department of Psychology
Swarthmore College
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
U.S.A.

Home Page
Phone: (610) 328-8434
Fax: (610) 328-7814
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Ken Gergen
Kenneth Gergen has research interests in narratives of the self; processes of social construction; psychological discourse, theory formation and evaluation; relational theory, rhetoric of inquiry; and culture critique.


Books:

  • Gergen, K. (1999). An invitation to social construction. London: Sage.
  • Gergen, K. (1994). Realities and relationships: Soundings in social construction. Cambridge, Harvard University Press. (Spanish edition, Realidades y Relaciones, Barcelona: Paidos; Danish edition, Virkelighed og relationer, Dansk Psykologisk Forlag, 1997.)
  • Gergen, K. (1993). Refiguring self and psychology. Hampshire: Dartmouth Publishing Co.
  • Gergen, K. (1991). The saturated self: Dilemmas of identity in contemporary life. New York: Basic Books. (Spanish edition, El yo saturado, Barcelona: Paidos. German edition, Das Ubersattigte Selbst, Heidelberg: Carl Auer, 1996. Greek edition, 1997.)
  • Gergen, K., & Davis, K. E. (1985). The social construction of the person. New York: Springer-Verlag.
  • Gergen, K., & Graumann, C. F. (1996). Psychological discourse in historical perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Gergen, K., Hosking, D., & Dachler, H. P. (1995). Management and organization: Relational alternatives to individualism. Aldershot: Avebury.
  • Gergen, K., & Mcnamee, S. (1999). Relational responsibility. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage.
  • Gergen, K., & McNamee, S. (1991). Therapy as social construction. London: Sage. (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.)
  • Gergen, K., & Shotter, J. (1989). Texts of identity. London: Sage.
  • Gergen, K., Stam, H. J., & Rogers, T. B. (1987). Metapsychology: The analysis of psychological theory. New York: Praeger.
  • Semin, G., & Gergen, K. (1990). Everyday understanding: Social and scientific implications. London: Sage.

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