Reading: VSNT brief glossary of terms (Madigan, 2016)
For your reading enjoyment - VSNT and Stephen Madigan outline many of the key terms of narrative therapy theory and practice and - offer a brief description of each
Reading: Destabilizing chronic identities of depression and retirement (Madigan, 1999)
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.
Video: Limitations with PTSD diagnosis (Bird and Wade, 2007)
Johnella Bird and Allan Wade discuss the numerous limitations and arbitrary nature of mainstream psychological ideas supporting the diagnosis of PTSD.
Video: Anti-anorexia League consultation: locating ideas of perfectionism (Anti-anorexia league, 1995)
Stephen Madigan interviews a Vancouver Anti-Anorexia League member to consult her insider experience on perfectionism and - how these cultural practices of perfectionism support lifestyles of anorexia.
Live Session: An Externalizing conversation with bulimia (Madigan, 2011)
Stephen Madigan's live video session demonstrates the narrative therapy practices of externalizing conversations, unique outcomes and reauthoring lives and relationships.
Reading: Counter-viewing Questions (Madigan, 2017)
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.
Video: Language and meaning making (Stephen Madigan, 2006)
Stephen Madigan discusses a practice of narrative therapy that is primarily concerned with questioning the politics of identity making - of who has the story telling rights to the story being told in therapy.
Live Session: Anti-anorexia – (first session) part A The practices of anorexia (Madigan, 2014)
The therapeutic discussion centres on close up questions/descriptions of anorexias present day tactics that are somehow helping her to 'remember to forget' the present counter-practices as well as her storied history of standing up and resisting anorexia domination and subjugation.
Reading: Politics of identity (Madigan, 1996)
Stephen Madigan's paper argues how the practice implementation of Narrative Therapy from person to person, and place to place, can be viewed as radically different depending on what practice ideology and presuppositions a therapist inhabits.
Video: The social locations of problems (Madigan, 2005)
Stephen Madigan reviews poststructuralist ideas in reference to the social location and discursive practices of problems.
