CAPITAL AND WORKER VALUES: WHAT MATTERS IN AN ORGANIZATION?
[Note: This is a revised chapter from The Postmodern Organization, a book I wrote 32 years ago. While we might assume that t…
John Trumper: Working in the Soviet Union
In this fifth essay based on a series of interviews conducted with John Trumper, M.D. attention is directed to Dr. Trumper's…
John Trumper and Susan Price: Working with Members of the Navaho Nation
This document contains an interview conducted by Bill Bergquist with John Trumper and Susan Price. Both John and Susan have …
John Trumper: Work with the Maori
This first interview focused on John Trumper's work with the Maori in Northern New Zealand. …
The Wonder of Interpersonal Relationships V: Coherence
We are living in a world where loneliness abounds. Whether this social condition of isolation is good for our heart and soul…
Chinese Characters and Perspectives: The Social Construction of Gender
Philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein once said: ‘The limits of my language are the limit of my world.” Language is t…
Alone and Together: Chinese Culture, Tradition and Language
I was born after the 1980s, in a small city in northern China. China has a tradition of togetherness (collectivism)—yet I fe…
The Breeze of Freedom
One of my colleagues recently left her long term residence in China and is now living in a country that is currently much le…
Psychology, Neo-Sociopsychology, and Paths to a Better, Less Prejudiced Society
When it comes to psychology in general, I am a fan. I have a degree in it. At its best, psychology is an honest attempt to h…
A PALLID HOPELESSNESS: REFLECTIONS ON ALIENATION
Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness…. -Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scriven…