Video: A few ideas on Anti-anorexia Q&A (Madigan, 2002)
Stephen Madigan offers a few introductory ideas on Anti-anorexia - as it relates to culture and identity.
Stephen Madigan offers a few introductory ideas on Anti-anorexia - as it relates to culture and identity.
Elliot Goldner & Stephen Madigan forged a strong relationship together through their work at St. Paul's hospital eating disorder unit. Elliot was the head psychiatrist and opened all the necessary space and support needed for Anti-anorexic narrative therapy based practices to take flight.
Stephen Madigan's paper on the 8 Conversational Habits of Highly Effective Problems demonstrates (in a shortened version) his continued fascination with Michael White's practice and Michel Foucault's ideas on power/knowledge, subjectification and the internalizing practices of dominant cultural discourse pursuit. He attempts to demonstrate the transport of this post-structural theory into narrative therapy practice.
Stephen answers audience post-session questions and offers refections on why he took certain therapeutic positions in the session.
A clear and simple introductory article to help the membership get a handle on narrative therapy theory and practice by Anja Bjoroy, Stephen Madigan and David Nylund (2015)
Stephen Madigan's paper highlights his relational interview meetings with 'Tom’, professional practices of the in patient psychiatric ward, expert knowledge, the notion of chronic identities, disciplinary discourse, and his fascination with developing therapeutic letter writing campaigns inside the psychiatric institution.
Stephen Madigan interprets Michel Foucault’s ideas on power/knowledge, subjectification and internalized cultural discourse - into practice.
Stephen Madigan's post-session interview reflects on the DSM, power and expert knowledge.
Stephen Madigan's VSNT training handout offers a brief introductory tour through a few necessary understandings when developing therapeutic questions from a narrative therapy perspective.