internalizing personal agency Archives - Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy

Reading: Externalizing the problem and internalizing personal agency (Tomm, 1989)

Length: 28 minutes

Externalizing the problem and internalizing personal agency, Karl Tomm, 1989

Reading: Addressing personal failure (White, 2006)

Length: 36 minutes

Michael Whites 2006 paper (which VSNT ranks as one of his all time best!) describes therapeutic options relevant to addressing a growing sense of people experiencing 'personal' failure. The paper also describes the operations of modern power (as opposed to sovereign power).

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