Michael White

Noticing What is Precious: Exploration of “Absent but Implicit”

The following is a excerpt from my new Book Understanding Pain, Anger and Fear: Michael White’s Absent But Implicit. In the context of everyday conversations, it is all too common to hear expressions of complaint, pain, frustration, worry, and/or anger.  In our culture, we are quick to point out what we don’t want and what we don’t […]

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what is narrative therapy

What is Narrative Therapy? Plus the Basic Assumptions Of Narrative Practice

Narrative Therapy was developed by social workers from Australia and New Zealand, Michael White and David Epston. It is derived from postmodernism, social constructuralism, and feminist theory. Michael White brought together the ideas of social and learning theorists, such as Bruner, Myerhoff, Bandera, Mears, Erikson, Vygotsky, Derrida, and Foucault, and applied them to therapeutic practice

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