Welcome to the Psychology Book Store. We feature books especially directed to the professional psychologist who is providing clinical services, consultation to organizations, or either personal or professional coaching services.

Here on the table at the front of our bookstore are our currently featured books.

Featured Book One

The Crises of Expertise and Belief

Authors: Kevin Weitz, Psy.D. and William Bergquist, Ph.D.

Leaders and experts are in crisis–as are coaches, consultants, mentors and educators who work to support leaders at all levels. They confront an abundance of challenges that are particularly difficult for leaders who know it all, have narcissistic tendencies or are rigid and resistant to all new ideas. According to Kevin Weitz and William Bergquist, the authors of this book, multiplying this problem are segments of society that are not only utterly fooled and manipulated by these leaders and experts, but also believe their every deceitful utterance. A seemingly counter intuitive psychological driver makes it difficult and nearly impossible to convince these segments of society to believe expert scientists and credible leaders. Many of these people simply don’t want to believe. Their personality types and in-group connectedness drive them to believe “crazy stuff”.

There is a strong tendency for people to believe bazaar conspiracy theories, lies and disinformation propagated by manipulative leaders and pseudo experts. This tendency is magnified by the pervasive presence in our mid-21^st Century world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, turbulence and contradiction (which we label VUCA-Plus in this book). The way people view and interact with leaders and experts is complex and diverse. Some of us are skeptical and distrustful, particularly of political leaders and scientific experts. Others believe every word uttered despite indisputable facts to the contrary. This book explores the psychology behind these differences.

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The Authors

Kevin Weitz

Kevin Weitz Psy.D. is an organizational psychologist, leadership coach and business consultant specializing in culture change and organizational transformations. Kevin’s coaching focus is helping leaders navigate change specifically where new leadership behaviors are needed to be successful. He has consulted with companies such as Chevron Corp, Intel Corp, Levi Strauss, Pacific Gas & Electric and British Colombia Hydro amongst others. Kevin is the author of an eBook entitled “The House of Culture” available on Amazon.

William Bergquist

William Bergquist, Ph.D. is an internationally known coach, consultant, trainer and educator. He is also a widely published author, researcher, and scholar. As an author of more than 50 books and 150 articles, Bill writes about profound personal, group, organizational and societal transitions and transformations.  Bill has served as consultant, coach and/or trainer to leaders in more than 1,000 organizations over the past 50 years and has co-founded the Library of Professional Coaching and founded the Library of Professional Psychology.

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Featured Book Two

The Ark of Leadership: An Integrative Perspective

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Authors: William Bergquist, Jeannine Sandstrom and Agnes Mura

The elusive phenomenon called “Leadership” is like the elephant in the noted fable about the blind men seeking to describe the elephant that they are touching. Some “blind men” (leadership theorists) declared that leadership is a matter of style or personality traits, other declare that effective leadership is dependent on the setting in which it is being engaged; others that it is based on a set of competencies or behavior patterns. These blind men are all correct—but they are only viewing (touching) part of the elephant. This book is uniquely about the entire elephant –

Leadership is a complex phenomenon. It is not just complicated (with many parts) but also complex (with all of the parts interacting with one another). This book is the first to provide a synthesis of leadership, in which the many interweaving parts are portrayed and the implications of this interweaving are explicitly traced. The Ark of Leadership provides the foundation for any leadership development initiative by outlining multiple perspectives, each with its implications, resulting in a guide on how to foster and develop leadership in many different settings.

Sample of Reviews:

The Ark of Leadership is hard to encapsulate: the most comprehensive reference and practical approach to leadership development I have seen in all my years of being an IT leader and then coaching and consulting leaders globally. Unlike ambiguous terms and prescriptive ideals about what makes a great leader, it articulates the many considerations that inform a leader’s path, empowering individuals to shape themselves into the leaders they aspire to be – for the context to which they feel most called to contribute.
The five practices of Legacy Leadership weave together key dimensions of leadership development and are cross-referenced with personality and leadership styles, with interpersonal needs and how they apply (most or least effectively) under different organizational conditions.
We follow the narrative journey of lively client cases, navigating through their challenges, with a spectrum of emotions—from frustration and resignation to ambition and possibility.
In both my role as a leader and my practice of leadership development, I consider this book a trusted companion, to be referred to time and again. And I consider it a bonus to also find a much richer understanding here into the evolution of teams, with their pitfalls and enormous potential.

Anne Miller,

Strategic business consultant and global executive coach

As a studious leadership coach for over 35 years, I find this is the best all-around reference guide to leadership development I’ve ever seen. It will live on your desk, not on your shelf! “The Ark of Leadership” is a crisply structured compendium of leadership best practices and approaches – vast territory indeed! But it is concise, engagingly written, cross referenced, and easily accessible for any situation, as we collectively respond to a “whitewater” world.

Karen King

Lead Partner, Vistage WorldWide CEO Peer Organization, NM

The Authors

Making use of more than 120 combined years of coaching, consulting and leadership development in more than 1,000 organizations throughout the world, Bergquist, Sandstrom and Mura provide a comprehensive portrait of leadership as it is engaged in many different countries and in a wide range of organizations and communities.

William Bergquist

An international coach and consultant, professor in the fields of psychology, management and public administration, author of more than 50 books, and president of a global institution (PSP) that provides training, conducts research, and publishes books at the cutting edge of professional psychology. Dr. Bergquist consults on and writes about personal, group, organizational and societal transitions and transformations. In recent years, Bergquist has focused on the processes of organizational coaching and the field of health psychology. He is coauthor with Agnes Mura of coachbook and consultbook, co-founder of the Library of Professional Coaching and founder of the Library of Professional Psychology.

Jeannine Sandstrom

With a doctorate in Human Resource Development, Jeannine Sandstrom launched a career dedicated to practical and research-based developmental leadership approaches. She led three national management development consultancies prior to founding Coachworks, a firm that focuses on strategic leadership, leader-team development and the education of professional coaching and consultant. Her articles have been featured in The Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine. A Master Certified Coach, teacher and mentor to generations of professional coaches, Dr. Sandstrom has been generously and generatively active on numerous national professional and industry organization.

Agnes Mura

A pioneering practitioner in leadership development at a global level for over 20 years, Agnes Mura serves as a Master Certified Coach. She has coached, facilitated and consulted on organizational behavior in six languages, in the US, Europe and Latina America, while helping build professional coaching associations that have shaped the profession. Agnes’ leadership was forged in her escape from Romania, an academic career in Germany, diplomacy work for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and a senior career in international banking. She served from 2013 to 2020 as an Independent Director of a global publicly traded company. With Dr. Bergquist, she has co-authored multiple books.

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Features Book Three

New Johari Window: The Intricate Dance of Interpersonal Relationships

Author: William Bergquist, Ph.D.

Why are some people interpersonally smart? Why do other people seem to be interpersonally challenged, if not downright stupid?  Even more fundamentally, why are each of us sometimes geniuses and sometimes idiots in our interactions with people about whom we care deeply? Whom we want to influence? Whom we want to engage in a less contentious manner? With whom we want to be more productive manner?

Interpersonal effectiveness is not just a matter of social or interpersonal intelligence and not just a matter of interpersonal competence. It is also a matter of becoming more fully aware of the multiple dimensions in which human interactions operate.

In seeking to address the WIIFM challenge (What’s in it for me?), this book provides a new model of interpersonal relationships that builds on the most widely used model of interpersonal relationships to be offered during the second half of the 20^th Century—namely the Johari Window.

Acknowledged as among the most insightful and useful models of human interaction, the Johari Window continues to be respected and often cited during the first years of the 21^st Century.

In the present book a new edition of the Johari Window is offered. The New Johari Window offers fresh insights and useful concepts regarding human interaction.

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Featured Book Four

Love Lingers Here: Stories of Enduring Intimate Relationships

Author: William Bergquist, Ph.D.

As the subtitle of the book implies, Love Lingers Here concerns enduring intimate relationships that exist in our mid-21st Century world. Most books about couples are written by those doing couples therapy and are based on the assumption that successful couples are doing whatever the couples in therapy are not doing (called “pathological extension”).

Love Lingers Here is based instead on interviews with more than 70 couples who have been together for many years (averaging 20 plus years together). Through thick and thin, these couples (both straight and gay) have remained loyal to one another and have found ways in which to adjust to changing conditions in their own lives and the world in which they reside.

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Love Lingers Here

Making use of a model of developmental stages, the author, William Bergquist, has described how his couples have found ways to remain in love over time. Dr. Bergquist introduces new concepts regarding relationship-based covenants, remarriages within a relationship, and marker events (differences that make a difference). Making use of a metaphor regarding the “tectonic plates” that move below the earth’s crust, Bergquist offers inspiring narratives regarding how specific “plates” in the lives of couples are engaged at each of their developmental stages. These plates relate to such critical issues as the couple’s finances, establishing a home, and raising children or initiating a shared project. Both troubling earthquakes and majestic mountains are created by enduring intimate couples when confronting these issues—much as earthquakes and mountains are created by earth-bound tectonic plates.

Finally, attention is given to very long term relationships (from throughout the world) as well as the long-term relationship of some celebrity couples. A summary of the findings from this twenty-year study is provided for the benefit of those who wish themselves to establish and maintain enduring, intimate relationships—and find love that lingers with one another!

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The Author

William Bergquist is an internationally known coach, consultant, trainer and educator. He is also a widely published author, researcher and scholar, and owns one of the few independent graduate schools in North America. As an author of more than 50 books and 150 articles, Bill writes about profound personal, group, organizational and societal transitions and transformations. He has conducted research and scholarship in North America, Europe and Asia to establish the foundation for his written work. His book, The Postmodern Organization, has been identified as one of the 50 classics in organizational theory and has been translated into both Italian and Mandarin. In Our Fifties was featured on Good Morning America and in several metropolitan newspapers. The Vitality of Senior Faculty received the annual research award in 1998 from the American Educational Research Association.

The Professional School of Psychology, where William Bergquist serves as president, offers a unique model of advanced training and education in countries throughout the world, blending intensive and flexible tutorial instruction with highly accessible and virtual interactive resources via email, teleconferences and other digitally mediated means. Bill has served as consultant, coach and/or trainer to leaders in more than 1,000 organizations over the past 50 years. Having consulted, trained and coached in organizations throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, Dr. Bergquist has written extensively about consulting, coaching and training strategies in more than two dozen publications, and co-founded the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations and International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations. During the past decade, Bergquist has also created or co-created two digital libraries (Library of Professional Coaching and Library of Professional Psychology) that together have published more than 1,500 vetted documents, are home to seven digital magazines and journals, as well as more than a dozen annual collections of essays and articles.

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