In 1992, Stephen Madigan set out to try and understand how Michael White’s theoretical and practice orientation had been influenced by the work of French philosopher/historian Michel Foucault
During this 1991 lecture Michael White begins to introduce the practice of externalizing questions and their relationship with broader dominant cultural practices supporting and creating of problems.
This 1986 video demonstrates Michael's practice of writing therapeutic letters of invitation and inclusion
During this 1991 video interview Michael White address topics including an opposite view to family therapy on the issue of power, power relations and practices of power.
In this 1987 lecture Michael White begins to clearly outline his steps away from ideas of structuralism and functionalism.
Re-authoring conversations are a key feature in the practice of narrative therapy. Michael White's 2004 discussion centres on developing reauthoring conversations through building a scaffold of curiosity and questions.
Drawing on the work of Jerome Bruner, Michael White found a structure to enter into client stories and construct a scaffold for his question. The structure involved Bruner's ideas on the composition of narrative stories through the landscape of action and landscapes of identity.
In this 1991 workshop handout Michael White outlines externalizing conversations as counter-practices that challenge internal state psychology, negative identity conclusions, expert knowledge, and totalizing descriptions of personhood.
In this 2005 lecture Michael White discusses the limitations of structuralist understandings central to popular modern day therapeutic thinking.
Philosopher Todd May joins Stephen Madigan to begin their VSNT.live Series on how certain ideas of Michel Foucault influenced the narrative therapy practice of Michael White.
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