structuralism Archives - Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy

Video: Limitations to structuralist understandings (White, 2005)

Length: 8 minutes

In this 2005 lecture Michael White discusses the limitations of structuralist understandings central to popular modern day therapeutic thinking.

Reading: Structuralism and post-structuralism slides (Nylund & VSNT, 2013)

Length: 31 minutes

David Nylund's slides on structuralism & post-structuralism are used to teach participants to draw distinctions between internal state psychology and narrative therapy in VSNT's Level Two Discovery Learning certificate course.

Video: Early ideas on externalizing conversations (White, 1987) – Sample

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Length: 6 minutes

In this 1987 lecture Michael White begins to clearly outline his steps away from ideas of structuralism and functionalism.

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