title: David K. Reynolds
text: # David K. Reynolds
  
  David Kent Reynolds is an author and the founder of Constructive Living. He was a faculty member at the UCLA School of Public Health, the University of Southern California School of Medicine and the University of Houston. He is currently Director of the Constructive Living Center in Coos Bay, Oregon. In 1988 he was retained by the World Health Organization (WHO) to teach Constructive Living to professional health workers in China. Dr. Reynolds studied Morita therapy and Naikan and lectures on these subjects to Japanese in Japanese in Japan. He is the only non-Japanese citizen to have received the Morita Prize and the Kora Prize from the Morita Therapy Association in Japan. Reynolds, an American, currently divides his time between Japan and the United States.
  
  ## Books
  
  Many of Reynolds' books about Constructive Living contain a reference to water in their title. They have been published in eight countries around the world.
  
  * Suicide Inside and Out, University of California Press, 1976
  * Morita Psychotherapy, University of California Press, 1976
  * The Quiet Therapies, University of Hawaii Press, 1980
  * Naikan Psychotherapy, University of Chicago Press, 1983
  * Constructive Living, University of Hawaii Press, 1984
  * Playing Ball on Running Water, Morrow, 1984
  * Living Lessons, Asahi Press, 1984
  * Even in Summer the Ice Doesn't Melt, Morrow, 1986
  * Water Bears no Scars, Morrow, 1987
  * Flowing Bridges, Quiet Waters, SUNY Press, 1989
  * Pools of Lodging for the Moon, Morrow, 1989
  * A Thousand Waves, Morrow, 1990
  * Thirsty, Swimming in the Lake, Morrow, 1991
  * Plunging Through the Clouds, SUNY Press, 1993
  * Rainbow Rising from a Stream, Morrow, 1992
  * Reflections on the Tao te Ching, Morrow, 1993
  * A Handbook of Constructive Living, Morrow, 1995; University of Hawaii Press, 2002
  * Light Waves: Fine Tuning the Mind, University of Hawaii Press, 2001
  * Water, Snow, Water, University of Hawaii Press, 2013.
  
  and many recent Kindle books, all combined totaling 50 titles.
  
  