Philosopher 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.
Stephen Madigan explores Michael White's ideological connection to second order cybernetics and the work of Gregory Bateson and - how it was that Michael and David Epston decided to turn away from 150 years of psychological theory, vocabulary and practice
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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.
The paper brings together the relational politic of narrative theory and practice considerations when working with persons living on psychiatric wards who have been professionally named and captured within destabilizing chronic identities. The paper features an example of therapeutic letter writing campaigns.
Stephen Madigan highlights a few primary narrative therapy ideas including how narrative therapy theory hinges on the idea that conventional ideas of the self as a separate, singular, coherent and readable entity is a normative psychological construct - but it is not an established scientific truth.
Stephen explores the mans experiences with certain dominant expectations and specifications of masculinity and this leads to a broadening of definitions on alternative ways of being a man.
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.
Johnella discusses the ways we use language - in particular, the relational use of language allows her to work with the intricacies of living within power relations.
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.
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