Books

• The self in social interaction:  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.)
• The self concept:  Advances in theory and research.  Boston: Ballinger, 1981  (edited with M. Lynch & A. Norem-Hebeisen).
• Historical social psychology.  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum (edited with M. Gergen), 1984.  Reprinted in 2013, New York: Psychology Press.
• The social construction of the person.  New York: Springer-Verlag, 1985 (edited with K. E. Davis). Reprinted in CD ROM series, The Taos Institute, 2005.
• 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).  Reprinted in CD ROM series, The Taos Institute, 2005.
• Everyday understanding:  Social and scientific implications.  London: Sage, 1990 (edited with G. Semin).
• Toward transformation in social knowledge.  New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982. Second Edition, London: Sage, 1994. Japanese edition, Nakanishiya Shuppan, 1998.
• The saturated self, dilemmas of identity in contemporary life. New York: Basic Books (1991; 2nd. Ed. 2001). Spanish edition, El yo saturado, Barcelona: Paidos. German edition, Das Ubersattigte Selbst, Heidelberg: Carl Auer, 1996. Greek edition, 1997. Danish edition, Det Maettede Selv, Dans Psykologisk Forlag, 2006; Polish edition, Nascoyne Ja, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2009.
• Therapy as social construction. London: Sage (1991). (edited with S. McNamee). Spanish edition, La terapia como construccion social, Barcelona: Paidos, 1996, 2^nd edition, 2008;  Portugese edition, A terapia como construcao social, Porto Alegre: Artes Medicas, 1998: Japanese edition, Kongo Shuppan,1997; Italian edition, La terapia come costruzione sociale, Milano: Franco Angeli, 1998; Korean translation, Seoul: Kakjisa. 2004; Japanese translation, 2014, Tomi Shobo.
• 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. Japanese edition. Nakanishya Shuppan, 2004.
• 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: Resources for sustainable dialogue Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage. With S. McNamee, 1999.   
• An invitation to social construction. London: Sage, 1999; a 2^nd edition in 2009. 3^rd. ed. 2015.  4^th ed.  2023. Also translated as  Le constructionisme sociale, Geneva: Delachaux et Nestle, 2002; Konstruierte Wirklichkeiten, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2002. Japanese translation, 2005. Second edition, Danish translation, Mindspace, 2010, Italian translation in process. 4^th edition: An invitation to social construction: Co-creating the future.
• Social construction in context, London: Sage, 2001. Chinese translation, 2012.
• The Appreciative organization. Cleveland: Taos Institute Press. 2001, with D. Cooperrider, H. Anderson, M. Gergen, S. McNamee, and D. Whitney. 2^nd edition, 2008.
• Social construction, a reader. London: Sage. Edited with M. Gergen. 2003
• Die Werstschatzende organisation, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2004 (Edited with K. Deissler).
• Social construction, entering the dialogue.  Cleveland: Taos Institute Publications. 2004. 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, 2009, Carl-Auer; Farsi translation, 2015, Swedish and Greek translations in process. (with M. Gergen)
• Therapeutic realities, collaboration, oppression and relational flow. Chagrin Falls, OH: Taos Institute Publications. 2006. Reformed as: Construire la realite, Un nouvel avenir pour la psychotherapie. Paris: Editions du Seuil (2005), Construir la realidad, El futuro de la psicoterapia. Barceolona: Paidos, 2006; Construzione sociale e pratiche terapeutiche: Dall’oppressione all collaborazione, Franco Angeli, 2006. Greek translation in process.
• Horizons in Buddhist psychology, Chagrin Falls, OH: Taos Institute Publications (edited with M. Kwee and F. Koshikawa.) 2006. Korean Translation, 2024 (Unjusa).
• Construccionismo Social, Aportes para el debate.  (curated 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) London: Palgrave. 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. (2009) New York: Oxford University Press. 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, (Dansk Psykologisk Forlag, 2010), Spanish translation (Desclee De Brouwer, 2015), Chinese translation simple (Shanghai Press, 2017); German translation (dgvt-Verlag, 2021), Chinese traditional (PsyGarden Publishing, 2020), Japanese translation (2021), Greek translation in process.
• Playing with Purpose: Adventures in performative social science. Alta Mira Press. (2012) With M. Gergen.
• Relational leading: Practices for dialogically based collaboration. Chagrin Falls, OH: K. Taos Institute Publications. (2014) Danish edition: Mindspace (2013). With L. Hersted.
• Education as social construction. Chagrin Falls, OH: WorldShare Books. (2015) Edited with T. Dragonas, S. McNamee, & E. Tseliou.
• Paths toward Positive Aging: Dog days with bone and other essays. Chagrin Falls, OH: Taos Institute Publications. (2017) (With M. Gergen).
• Social Konstruktionisme og Uddannelse. Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag. (2017) With Mellon.
• Social Konstructionisme - ledelse og organisation. Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag. (2020) With K. Mellon.
• Beyond the Tyranny of Testing: Relational Evaluation in Education. New York: Oxford University Press. (2020) (with S. Gill). Danish translation, Dansk Psykologisk Forlag (2022), Japanese 2023, Chinese 2025, Greek translation in process.
• The Relational Imperative: Resources for a World on Edge. Chagrin Falls, OH: Taos Institute Publications. (2021) Danish translation, Mindspace (2022); Japanese 2023, NAKANISHIYA SHUPPAN; Dutch, 2023 WorldShare; French, 2024 WorldShare; Spanish (2025) translation in process.
• Passionate pursuits: Selected clearings from a lifetime in dialogue. Taos Institute: Worldshare Books (2024) French, 2025 WorldShare; Spanish, WorldShare (2026). Portuguese translation in process.
• Renegade: From postmodern revolution to relational transformation. London: Routledge. (In press).