Reading: Anti-anorexia: bearing witness (Epston, 2006)
VSNT has read this marvel of an article written by David Epston far too many times to count. David Epston writes on writes on, Anti-anorexia, Morality and Counter-Morality
Video: The birth of narrative therapy (Epston, Madigan and Sanders, 2011)
Colin Sanders interviews David Epston and Stephen Madigan in front of his Graduate School students on the beginning histories of narrative therapy. In this section of the interview David recalls his first meeting with Michael White in 1982.
Reading: Analysis of Anti-anorexia session transcript (Epston, 2004)
The following conversation is transcribed from a video-taped session with David, Rhiannon, Darren and Glen. This is an example of an Anti-Anorexic approach to therapy, which includes the client’s family and friends, and draws on the experiences other women dealing with Anorexia have already shared.
Audio: The art of crafting narrative questions (Epston, 1995)
A classic! David Epston outlines the questions that guide and shape his questions in narrative therapy.
Reading: From ‘Spy-chiatric’ Gaze to Communities of Concern ( Madigan & Epston 1995)
David Epston and Stephen Madigan's article illustrates the practices of co-research and - circulating the experiences found within the client’s local knowledge through the establishment of Leagues and other forms of what they coined as communities of concern.
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.