Talk:Michael White (psychotherapist)

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In the wake of Michael's death, this page is undergoing a major overhaul to reflect the significant contributions he made to the fields of family therapy and community work. Many close colleauges and practitioners from around the world will be invovled in this process - please have patience while we add key information and make this page far more useful! If you have any questions or comments about anything we add - or if there's any information you'd like to see here - please feel free to add to this talk page. Annarean7 (talk) 12:44, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Date of death
It seems unclear when Michael died. It has alternately been posted, in Wikipedia previously, as in other places, notably his own Adelaide Centre, As April 4. Perhaps the problem is the international dateline. Did he die April 4 San Diego time, April 5 Adelaide time? My assumption would be that the time of death is reported as the time where it happened (in San Diego) not the time where he lived (Adelaide). Perhaps there is a standard. Perhaps it should be specified he died April 4 San Diego time April 5 Adelaide time. (John Lederman (talk) 13:39, 21 June 2008 (UTC)) John Lederman


 * Good point. Annarean7 and I are looking into this.  Dwalls (talk) 12:35, 22 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Changed to April 4; thanks for suggestion. Dwalls (talk) 12:44, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Michael White Archive
I removed the following section from the artcicle:


 * In April 2009, to mark the anniversary of Michael White's death, the Dulwich Centre launched the online component of the Michael White Archive. The archive aims to collect a range of written and spoken reflections on White's contribution to the field of family therapy, as well as video recordings of his interviews. At present, the archive hosts the 'Many stories, many legacies' project, initiated by Ann Hartman. This project invited experienced practitioners to reflect on White's legacies, and includes pieces by David Epston, Ann Hartman, Joan Laird, and Kaethe Weingarten, as well as practitioners in Israel, Uganda, Denmark, Mexico, Hong Kong, Columbia, and Russia. The site also contains audio recordings from the memorial event held for Michael White at Dulwich Centre on November 24, 2008. These recordings include reflections and tributes by Barbara Wingard, David Epston, Jill Freedman, John Winslade, Lorraine Hedtke, and long-term friends and colleagues from the Family Centre, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, Warihi Campbell, Tamalie Kiwi Tamasese, and Charles Waldegrave.

Futher comment
I removed this section because this information seems hardly E. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 21:33, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Interviews in professional publications

 * White, M. (1991). Outside expert knowledge. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 12(4), 207-214. Interviewed by Andrew Wood.
 * White, M. (1993). The politics of therapy. Human Systems: The Journal of Systemic Consultation and Management, 4, 19-32. Interviewed by Leslie Allen.
 * White, M. (1994). A conversation about accountability. Dulwich Centre Newsletter, (2&3), 68-79. Interviewed by Christopher McLean.
 * White, M. (1994). The narrative perspective in therapy. The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 2(1), 71-83. Interviewed by Bubenzer, D.L., West, J.D., & Boughner, S.R.
 * White, M. (1995). Schools as communities of acknowledgment. Dulwich Centre Newsletter, Nos.2&3, 51-66. Interviewed by Christopher McLean.
 * White, M. (1996). On ethics and the spiritualities of the surface: A conversation with Michael White. In Hoyt, M.F. (Ed.), Constructive Therapies 2. New York: Guilford Press.
 * White, M. (1998). Then and now... AFTA Newsletter, 74 (Winter), 43-47.
 * White, M. (1999). Diversity and family therapy. Context: Magazine for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, 46 (December).
 * White, M. (2000). An exploration of aesthetics. Context: Magazine for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, 47 (January).
 * White, M. (2001). Direction and discovery: A conversation about power and politics in narrative therapy.’ In Hoyt, M.F. (Ed.), Interviews with Brief Therapy Experts. (Philadelphia: Brunner-Routledge).

I removed this listing because it is not E. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 21:36, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Influences: Bateson
Please explain more about Gregory Bateson. (comment placed in article moved here by Dwalls (talk) 14:08, 10 December 2009 (UTC))

Bateson was quoted in Michael White's early writings inspired by cybernetic ideas, but White still quoted him when his interests turned to narrative: there is a discussion of Bateson's ideas about understanding and interpretation of reality, 'news of a difference', the importance of the temporal dimension, and differentiation in both White and Eptson's 'Narrative means to therapeutic ends' (1990), as well as White's landmark 2001 paper 'Folk psychology and narrative practice'. While much of Bateson's ideas do not fit with narrative practice as it evolved, and he is not engaged with by most narrative writers today, in 2007, White said that one of his upcoming reserach projects was to re-read Bateson's work, and re-engage with it in the cotext of his thinking at the time, especially around ideas of differentiation, as drawn from Derrida, and the realtionship of thought and knowledge, as drawn on White's reading at the time of Deleuze. Annarean7 (talk) 23:59, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

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