Article: Women are Dying: A Narrative Therapy Approach to Anorexia & Bulimia. Elliot Golden & Stephen Madigan (Canada)

Graduate Student’s ask what is a good way to learn narrative therapy practice and theory.  The quick answer is – working in the area of dis-ordered eating. What Elliot Goldner and Stephen Madigan had hoped to write in this chapter was not a catch-all theory/practice, but rather putting forth sets of anti-individualist ideas and approaches that appear to be helpful to most of the people they had worked with who were struggling against anorexia and bulimia. Stephen’s co-author and very good friend Elliot Goldner died suddenly and young in 2017. Elliot was the head psychiatrist in charge of Eating Disorders for the Province of British Columbia Canada. His therapeutic and political position was incredibly ‘pro-narrative therapy’ and without him using his power and position to pave the way, much of what Stephen and the women of the the Anti-anorexia League were able to do – would not have been possible. We do miss Elliot Goldner a lot.