During VSNT's Stephen Madigan 1991 narrative therapy apprenticeship in Adelaide, Australia he received this Michael White handout outlining externalizing and reauthoring conversations as counter-practices. This particular handout is one of the first to outline the politics of narrative practice.
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.
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).
In this brief clip Michael White outlines his practice of 'externalizing' the problem of 'trouble' that clearly had great appeal for the family.
Michael White outlines three important assumptions of narrative therapy practice that he views as helpful to understanding an Anti-anorexia/bulimia practice.
In this key lecture Michael discusses the dominant western understanding of identity - using schizophrenia as the practice example.
This is the first and only taped public interview/discussion involving Steve DeShazer and Michael White (1992). Their discussion on the subject of power clearly illustrates a primary and distinct difference between Narrative Therapy and Solution Focused Therapy.
Michael Whites 2005 lecture offers succinct examples of landscape of action and landscape of identity questions and how people’s lives can become ‘thickened’, and more richly known and described.
Michael White discusses and deconstructs the traditional 'surface and depth' concepts at the heart of therapy practices based in expert knowledge and psychologies individualist practice understandings.
In line with philosopher/historian Michel Foucault's thinking, this 1987 video outlines how Michael White attempts to de-classify and de-thingify the persons he works with in therapy
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