Reading: Collected papers (Epston, 1988)
Video: The politics of knowledge and creating co-research (Epston, 2017)
During an all day Anti-anorexia/bulimia workshop at Therapeutic Conversations 14, Anne Saxtorph from Copenhagen asks David a question regarding how unlike a normative therapist (or normative narrative therapist) he seems within a therapy session. David discusses his ideas on co-research and the politics of knowledge.
Video: Vocabularies of experience and the shaping of questions David Epston & Michael White interview (Madigan, 1994)
Within this 1994 interview, David Epston discusses how he establishes alternative 'meaning making' and vocabularies of experience within the therapeutic session - through the shaping of the questions he's asks.
Video: How the ideas of Anti-anorexia Leagues began: (David Epston, 2017)
David Epston discusses how the only way a therapist can possibly begin to understand and respond to the deadly practices of a/b is through a careful and respectful listening of the insiders accounts of this torturous and deadly lifestyle. He discusses the circulation of these knowledges and the formation of his virtual Leagues.
Video: A politic and poetic of questions David Epston & Michael White interview (Madigan, 1994)
Within the 1994 interview, Michael White discusses how externalizing conversations are discursive and designed to bring forth the politics of experience. David Epston discusses what he calls juvenile externalizing questions and how they act to minimize possibilities.
Video: Apprenticing in the practices of Anti-anorexia: (David Epston & Stephen Madigan, 2017)
David Epston invites Stephen Madigan to discuss the early days of their apprenticeship/supervision relationship.
Live Session: David Epston, 1995 (part 1)
David Epston meets with a young boy of 12 years old (and his psychiatrist). The young boy has been living in a psychiatric hospital in Sweden for over one year because of a relationship to anger and violence.
Reading: An emergency response to ‘going off your face’ at school (Epston, 1987)
Can you ever imagine writing this paper? . . . The emergency response to ‘going off your face’ at school gives you a window into the world of David Epston.
Live Session: David Epston, 1995 (part 2)
The next part of the live session David Epston begins to rework the troubled/violent reputation of the young boy and ask questions to help develop an alternative story line.
Live Session: David Epston, 1995 (part 4)
The fourth part of the live interview session David Epston begins find support of the counter-story by circulating the new story through letter writing.
