Video: Limitations of structuralist understandings (White, 2005)
In this 2005 lecture Michael White discusses the limitations of structuralist understandings central to popular modern day therapeutic thinking.
Video: Philosopher Todd May on Michel Foucault & Michael White (May, 2020) Sample
PreviewPhilosopher 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.
Audio: Practices of re-authoring (White, 1992)
Michael White's 1992 key lecture shows how therapists might consider and bring forth questions that can be introduced during the re-authoring of lives and relationships that encourage people to generate new proposals for action
Audio: Reauthoring conversations (White, 1991)
A clear description of what constructs, constitutes, and scaffolds the possibility of entering into Reauthoring Conversations is discussed by Michael White during a workshop in 1991
Reading: Conversations with men handout (White & VSNT, 2007)
Michael White's work began to construct questions to address and deconstruct specific cultural influences, trainings and demands of dominant masculinity.
Reading: Externalizing the problem and internalizing personal agency (Tomm, 1989)
Externalizing the problem and internalizing personal agency, Karl Tomm, 1989
Video: Timing and the questioning of discourses (Jill Freedman, TC12, 2015)
Jill Freedman elegantly discusses how she learned to orientate herself to asking deconstructive questions on the politics of discourse.
Video: The birth of narrative therapy (Epston, Madigan and Sanders, 2011)
Colin Sanders interviews David Epston and Stephen Madigan in front of his Graduate School students on the beginning histories of narrative therapy. In this section of the interview David recalls his first meeting with Michael White in 1982.
Video: Helping therapists reject expert truths about persons (White, 2005)
Michael White outlines a crucial difference between narrative practice and 150 years of psychological thinking.
Video: Vocabularies of experience and the shaping of questions David Epston & Michael White interview (Madigan, 1994)
Within this 1994 interview, David Epston discusses how he establishes alternative 'meaning making' and vocabularies of experience within the therapeutic session - through the shaping of the questions he's asks.
