Sheila McNamee

Sheila McNamee is an American academic known for her work in social constructionism. She is a Professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire and a founder, Vice President and board member of the Taos Institute.^[1] Her work focuses on appreciative dialogic transformation within a variety of social and institutional contexts including psychotherapy, organizations, education, healthcare, and local communities. She engages constructionist practices in a variety of contexts to bring communities of participants with diametrically opposing viewpoints together to create livable futures.

McNamee is married to a scholar of communication (Professor John Lannamann). They reside in Durham, New Hampshire.

Selected academic positions

• Faculty, Ph.D. Program in Social Psychology, University of Parma, Italy (2005 – present)
• Visiting Professor, School of Governance, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands (2006–2009)
• Visiting Professor, Department of Public Health, College of Nursing, University of São Paulo - Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (2007)
• Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology and Education, University of São Paulo - Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (2009)

Awards

• 2001-2004 Class of 1944 Professorship, University of New Hampshire
• 2007 Lindberg Award for Outstanding Scholar/Teacher, College of Liberal Arts, University of New Hampshire (2007–2008)

Books

• McNamee, S. and Gergen, K. J. (Eds.) (1992). Therapy as Social Construction. London: Sage. ISBN 0803983034
• McNamee, S. and Gergen, K.J. (1999). Relational Responsibility: Resources for Sustainable Dialogue. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage. ISBN 0761910948
• Deissler, K. G. and McNamee, S. (Eds.). (2000). Philosophy in Therapy: The Social Poetics of Therapeutic Conversation. (Phil und Sophie auf der couch: Die soziale poesie therapeutischer gesprache). Heidelberg: Carl Auer Systeme Verlag.
• Hosking, D. and McNamee, S. (Eds.) (2006). The Social Construction of Organization. Malmo, Sweden: Liber and Copenhagen Business School Press. ISBN 8763001659
• Anderson, H., Cooperrider, D., Gergen, K., Gergen, M., McNamee, S. and Whitney, D. (2008, 2nd edition). The Appreciative Organization. Ohio: Taos Institute Publications. ISBN 0971231273

Notes

References

• Guanaes, Carla; Rasera, Emerson F. (2006). "Therapy as social construction: An interview with Sheila Mcnamee". Interamerican Journal of Psychology, Vol. 40, No. 1 pp. 127–136

External links

• Social Construction Therapies Network