Video: Absent but implicit (White, 2005)
Michael White discusses the therapeutic ideas of the absent but implicit/double listening - key concepts in narrative therapy practice.
Michael White discusses the therapeutic ideas of the absent but implicit/double listening - key concepts in narrative therapy practice.
Categories and examples of restraint: Michael White, 1986
This rare and vitally important 1986 lecture features Michael White introducing his practice of therapy through a discussion of Gregory Bateson's ideas on negative explanation, double description and restraint. The lecture took place 4 years before his practice became known as narrative therapy.