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Michael Kingsley White (29 de diciembre de 1948, Adelaida, Australia - † 4 de abril de 2008, San Diego (California)​) fue el fundador de la Terapia narrativa, una contribución significativa a la Psicoterapia y la Terapia familiar y fuente de técnicas adoptadas por otras enfoques. Fue trabajador social y terapeuta familiar, co-director del Dulwich Centre​ en Adelaida, Australia, y autor de varios libros sobre Terapia familiar y Terapia narrativa. Su labor con niños y comunidades aborígenes es especialmente reconocida, además de sus trabajos sobre Esquizofrenia, Anorexia y Bulimia, violencia masculina y Trauma psíquico.

En enero de 2008, White set up the Adelaide Narrative Therapy Centre ​ to provide counselling services and training workshops relevant to work with individuals, couples, families, groups and communities and to provide a context for exploring recent developments relevant to narrative practice." ​

Influencias

Aunque sus influencias iniciales incluyen la Teoría de sistemas y la Cibernética (Gregory Bateson), el trabajo principal de White se basó en una amplia gama de fuentes, entre ellas la Teoría de la Instrucción (Jerome Bruner), Antropología Cultural (Clifford Geertz, Barbara Myerhoff, Victor Turner),

While early influences included those of systems theory and cybernetics (Gregory Bateson) ​, White's main work drew on a wide range of sources, including literary theory (Jerome Bruner), cultural anthropology (Clifford Geertz, Barbara Myerhoff, Victor Turner), non-structuralist psychology (William James, Lev Vygotsky), and French critical / post-structuralist philosophy (Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault). ​

Innovaciones teóricas y prácticas

Key therapeutic ideas developed by White include 'externalizing the problem'​, commonly summarised as 'the person is not the problem, the problem is the problem'; 're-authoring' the dominant stories of people's lives; and the idea of 'double-listening' to accounts of trauma: not only the accounts of trauma itself, but how people have responded to trauma.

Key practicó la terapia narrativa y 'mapeaba' las prácticas narrativas, incluyendo:

• The statement of position map / externalising conversations map
• Re-authoring conversations
• Re-membering conversations
• Definitional ceremonies
• Scaffolding conversations
• The absent but implicit
• Responding to personal failure conversations​

Premios

• International Fellow, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
• Premio de la ATFA por su Distinguida Contribución a la Teoría y Práctica de la Terapia Familar, 1999.​

Bibliografía

• con David Epston, Literate Means to Therapeutic Ends (Adelaide: Dulwich Centre Publications, 1989).
• con David Epston, Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends (New York: W. W. Norton, 1990). ISBN 0-393-70098-4 (hardcover)
• con David Epston, Experience, Contradiction, Narrative and Imagination: Selected papers of David Epston & Michael White, 1989-1991 (Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications, 1992).
• Re-Authoring Lives: Interviews and Essays (Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications, 1995). ISBN 0-646-22735-1
• Narratives of Therapists' Lives (Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications, 1997).
• Reflections on Narrative Practice (Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications, 2000).
• Narrative Practice and Exotic Lives: Resurrecting diversity in everyday life (Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications, 2004). ISBN 0-9577929-9-9
• with Alice Morgan, Narrative Therapy with Children and their Families (Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications, 2006).
• Maps of Narrative Practice. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2007).

La obra de Michael White ha sido traducida al castellano, danés, japonés, sueco, italiano, alemán, chino y francés.

Entrevistas en publicaciones especializadas

• 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).

Véase

Terapia narrativa

Enlaces externos

• Dulwich Centre: Gateway to Narrative Therapy and Community Work
• Adelaide Narrative Therapy Centre
• Writing on the Mind – the power of story telling, All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, emitido el 1 de octubre de 2005
• Necrológica en el New York Times, 28 de abril de 2008

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