Video: Expert knowledge (White, 2005)

Length: 5 minutes

Michael White discusses the traditional 'surface and depth' concept at the heart of internal state psychologies practice and - those therapies based in expert knowledge and individualism

Video: Gregory Bateson, negative explanation and restraint (White, 1986)

Length: 14 minutes

This rare and vitally important 1986 lecture features Michael White introducing his practice of therapy through a discussion of Gregory Bateson's ideas on negative explanation, double description and restraint. The lecture took place 4 years before his practice became known as narrative therapy.