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Michael White (29 December 1948 – 4 April 2008) [1] was an Australian social worker and family therapist. He is known as the founder of narrative therapy , and for his significant contribution to psychotherapy and family therapy , which have been a source of techniques adopted by other approaches.
Michael White (pictured) helped develop narrative therapy. Narrative therapy (or narrative practice) [1] is a form of psychotherapy that seeks to help patients identify their values and the skills associated with them. It provides the patient with knowledge of their ability to embody these values so they can effectively confront current and ...
The term was first used by Australian writer, therapeutic theorist, and social worker Michael White in his lectures [1] in 1991. Karl Tomm, a noted Canadian social worker, traces the use of the term to earlier lectures by Michael White in his foreword to Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends [2] (1990).
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David Epston (born 30 August 1944) is a New Zealand social worker and therapist, formerly co-director of the Family Therapy Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, formerly visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy University, formerly an honorary clinical lecturer in the Department of Social Work, University of Melbourne, and formerly an affiliate faculty member in the Ph.D program in Couple and ...
Michael White (criminologist) (born 1951), professor of criminology at Arizona State University Michael White (psychotherapist) (1948–2008), inventor of narrative therapy Michael J. D. White (1910–1983), British zoologist
Sarbin argued that "narrative" is a root metaphor for psychology that should replace the mechanistic and organic metaphors which shaped so much theory and research in the discipline over the past century. [1] Jerome Bruner explored the "narrative kind of knowing" in a more empirical way in his 1986 book Actual Minds, Possible Worlds. [7]
Narrative rationality and narrative emotion are complementary within a narrative theory. The former considers how effectively the story conveys its meaning, as well as its implications. The latter considers the emotional reactions of the story's observers. [19] Narrative emotion is an emotion felt for the sake of someone, or something, else. [19]