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.
Stephen demonstrates the questions involved with circulating the counter-story to strengthen the preferred reputation within the oppressive conditions of racism
Stephen Madigan answers post-session questions about the questions he asks in the therapy session.
What begins as a standard narrative therapy session demonstration takes a dramatic turn. We invite you to pay particular attention to Stephen’s questions regarding race, power relations, and culture.
David Nylund's paper writes that most cultural diversity classes in social work are taught from a liberal or conservative multicultural perspective that precludes a power analysis and a critical discussion of whiteness.
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.
This VSNT paper by Stephen Madigan looks at the relationship between the relational ideas of narrative theory and practices when engaging with persons living on psychiatric wards who professionals have named with destabilizing chronic identities.
Stephen Madigan outlines how narrative therapy questions are designed to both respectfully and critically raise suspicions about prevailing problem stories. The handout on the idea of counter-viewing questions speaks to narratives therapy’s deconstructive therapeutic act.
Stephen Madigan reviews poststructuralist ideas in reference to the social location and discursive practices of problems.
Stephen Madigan's handout offers you a brief introduction to a few Anti-anorexia questions taken from his in patient ward hospital sessions back in 1994
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