Video: Challenging the idea of catharsis (White, 2005)
Michael White challenges the modern psychological idea of catharsis - the releasing and discharging of pain as a means of healing as it relates to trauma.
Audio: Discussion on diagnosis (DeShazer and White, 1992)
There were always comparisons between Solution Focused and Narrative Therapy that - Steve De Shazer and Michael White did not necessarily agree with. This rare recording is an excerpt of Steve DeShazer & Michael White discussing diagnosis.
Video: Reworking troubled reputations in families (White, 2004)
Michael White discusses his ideas and method of reworking (and the prospect of un-learning) singular troubled reputations in families through re-authoring conversations
Audio: Landscape of Action and Consciousness (White, 1991)
In this 1991 lecture, Michael White outlines the theory and practice surrounding his use of relative influence questions, landscape of action and consciousness (identity) questions, and those sneaky and beautiful alternative stories that do not fit with the problem story known as - unique outcomes.
Video: Introducing externalizing questions lecture (White, 1986)
Michael White's historical 1986 lecture begins to outline for North American therapists the ideology and theory behind a new practice that he has named externalizing conversations.
Video: Multiple identities to stand in (White, 2005)
Michael White discusses narrative practice ideas that interrupt totalizing identities of men who are violent.
Audio: Exceptions and unique outcomes (DeShazer and White, 1992)
In this rare interview, Steve DeShazer and Michael White discuss their practice conceptions and difference regarding the ideas of exceptions and unique outcomes
Video: Unique outcomes versus troubled reputations in families (White, 2004)
In this 2004 lecture, Michael White subverts dominant and popular positivist explanations of personhood and speaks to the possibility of alternative identity conclusions and those beautiful counter-experiences known as unique outcomes.
Audio: Practices of Re-authoring (White, 1992)
Michael White discusses how specific narrative questions can be introduced in the re-authoring of lives and relationships
Video: Histories of narrative therapy keynote (Madigan, 2014)
PreviewStephen 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
