Video: Internalizing cultural normativity and discourse (Madigan, 2005)
Stephen Madigan discusses internalized problem conversations and the audience of normative ideas that support these problem conversations.
Reading: Deconstruction and therapy (White, 1991)
The Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy considers this 1991 paper by Michael White as one of the most important narrative therapy articles ever written.
Video: A little story involving Michael White, Michel Foucault and a Restaurant (Madigan, 2014)
Stephen Madigan introduces his 2014, TC12 keynote on the early ideas of Michael White with a little story to situate the humour that was central to their friendship.
Reading: VSNT brief guide to Michel Foucault’s vocabulary handout (Madigan, 1999)
VSNT & Stephen Madigan provides you with their brief guide to Michel Foucault's vocabulary. We hope the guide helps you to negotiate the meaning of his ideas and how they relate to narrative therapy practice. If your goal is to study narrative therapy and your own practice a little more rigorously . . . then you may find yourself returning to this guide.
Video: Power/knowledge in therapy interview (Madigan & White, 1991)
This rare 1991 interview clip captures Stephen Madigan interviewing Michael White about Gregory Bateson, Michel Foucault, the issue of power/knowlege and - how these ideas influence narrative therapy practice.
