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This is for reflective practitioners, for people wishing to inquire into what is involved in thinking ""in the moment"" when encountering unique, ""first-time"" events. It is also about complexity considered as a third realm of mysterious events subsisting between those we call problems which we can solve by rational thought, and those we call ineffable which we cannot at all describe in words

This is a philosophy book for psychotherapists, psychologists, organisational consultants and scholars who are interested in the construction of each other, how we make meaning together and move with people in dialogue. John gets beyond a purely cognitive understanding of what it means to be human and shows us different ways of appreciating the nuanced movements in acts of developing relational know-how to create new ways of being - and becoming.
Ann L. Cunliffe, Professor of Management, University of Bradford
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This imaginative and original book challenges the traditional scientific view that naturally occurring psychological and sociological realities' are to be discovered underlying appearances. Instead, it claims that such orderly realities are both socially constructed and sustained within the context of people's disorderly, everyday conversational activities.

John Shotter's interdisciplinary analysis highlights the socially contested but imaginary nature of many of the things' we talk about in social life and illuminates the processes of their construction. He offers a broad-ranging...