Video: Early ideas on externalizing (White, 1987)
In this 1987 lecture Michael White begins to clearly outlines his novel ideas on externalizing problem conversations in therapy and the idea of restraints
In this 1987 lecture Michael White begins to clearly outlines his novel ideas on externalizing problem conversations in therapy and the idea of restraints
In this 2005 lecture Michael White discusses the limitations of structuralist understandings central to popular modern day therapeutic thinking.
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.
Categories and examples of restraint: Michael White, 1986
This 1986 video show why VSNT has argued for many years that without a thorough investigation/understanding of Bateson's ideas on negative explanation, double description, and restraints - it would be difficult to fully grasp Michael Whites narrative therapy work.
In this 2004 lecture, Michael White subverts dominant and popular positivist explanations of personhood and speaks to the possibility of alternative identity conclusions and those beautiful counter-experiences known as unique outcomes.
Michael White discusses his ideas and method of reworking (and the prospect of un-learning) singular troubled reputations in families through re-authoring conversations
A wonderful discussion on relative influence and relational externalizing practices with Michael White in 1987
The Michael White workshop in 1987 outlines a few novel letter writing approaches when we find ourselves working with youth who won’t come to therapy
VSNT's Stephen Madigan received this Michael White Handout on Externalizing Conversations with Families in Adelaide, Australia, 1991