A list of resources including books, journals and websites.
Books:
The Tree Of Knowledge – The Biological Roots Of Human Understanding
By Humberto Maturana and Francisco J. Varela
Autopoiesis and Cognition – The Realization of the Living
By Humberto Maturana and Francisco J. Varela
Aesthetics of Change
By Bradford P. Keeney, Heinz Von Foerster
Family Therapy
By Dorothy Stroh Becvar, Raphael J. Becvar
Change; Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution
By Paul Watzlawick, John H. Weakland, Richard Fisch
Pragmatics of Human Communication – Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes
By Paul Watzlawick, Janet Helmick Beavin, Don D Jackson
Milan Systemic Family Therapy – Conversations in Theory and Practice
By Luigi Boscolo, Gianfranco Cecchin, Lynn Hoffman, Peggy Penn
Foundations of Family Therapy – Conceptual Framework for Systems Change
By Lynn Hoffman
Steps to an Ecology of Mind – Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution and Epistemology
By Gregory Bateson
A Theory Of Personality – The Psychology Of Personal Constructs
By George A. Kelly
Madness and Civilization – A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
By Michel Foucault
Oikos website has a list of recommended books.
Journal Articles:
Hoffman, L. (1985). Beyond Power and control: Towards a “Second order” family systems therapy. Family systems Medicine, 3, 381-396.
Hoffman, L. (1992). A reflexive stance for family therapy. In McNamee, S., and Gergen, K.J. (Eds), Therapy as a social construction (pp7-24). London: Sage
Griffith, J.L., Griffith, M.E & Slovik, I.S. (1992). Owning one’s epistemological stance intherapy. Dulwich Centre Newsletter, 1, 5-11
Bogdan, J.C. (1984). Family organisation as an ecology of ideas: An alternative to thereification of family systems. Family Process, 23, 376-388.
Anderson, H., & Goolishian, H. (1992). The client is the expert: A not-knowing approach totherapy. In McName, S., & Gergen, K.J. (Eds.) Therapy as social construction (pp25-39). London: Sage.
Some of the following recommended books are more practical in nature and may not be ecosystemic in epistemology. These books are recommended as they were found to be helpful in terms of our current societal context.
Trauma
Treating Traumatized Children
By Beverly James
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
By Philip Saigh
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder – DSM-IV and Beyond
By Jonathan Davidson, Edna Foa
Psychology and Religion
A Way of Being
By Carl R. Rogers
Religion and Nothingness
By Keiji Nishitani
Websites:
