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Writings by Michael White

This page includes free articles by Michael White to download, links to articles about Michael White, and a complete bibliography of his work.

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‘ Reflecting teamwork as definitional ceremony ‘ (first published in  Re-authoring lives: interviews and essays  (Adelaide, Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications)) introduced the ideas of Barbara Myerhof and definitional ceremony to narrative practice, which led to outsider-witness practices.

Workshop notes , including:

• Externalising conversations exercise
• Statement of position maps 1 & 2
• Therapeutic posture
• Re-authoring conversations
• Re-membering conversations
• Definitional ceremony and outsider-witness
• Attending to the consequences of trauma
• Distinctions between traditional & modern power
• Addressing personal failure

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Magazine articles and radio features about Michael White and narrative therapy

• Cowley, G. & K. Springen. (1995).  Rewriting life stories.  Newsweek , April 17.
• Wylie, M.S. (1994).  Panning for gold.  Family Therapy Networker, 18 (6), 40-48.
• Special report on narrative therapy,  Life Matters , ABC Radio National, broadcast 23 December 1999 (repeated 8 October 2002).
• Writing on the Mind – the power of story telling,  All in the Mind , ABC Radio National, broadcast 1 October 2005.

Michael White – complete bibliogpraphy

This section presents a complete list of Michael White’s writings. If we have missed anything out, please  contact us .

• White, M., & Epston, D. (1989).  Literate means to therapeutic ends . Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.
• White, M., & Epston, D. (1990).  Narrative means to therapeutic ends . New York: W. W. Norton.
• Epston, D., & White, M. (1992).   Experience, contradiction, narrative and imagination: Selected papers of David Epston & Michael White, 1989-1991 . Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.
• White, M. (1995).  Re-authoring lives: Interviews and essays . Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.
• White, M. (1997).  Narratives of therapists’ lives . Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.
• White, M. (2000).  Reflections on narrative practice . Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.
• White, M. (2004).  Narrative practice and exotic lives: Resurrecting diversity in everyday life . Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.
• White, M., & Morgan, A. (2006).  Narrative therapy with children and their families . Adelaide, South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.
• White, M. (2007).  Maps of narrative practice . New York, NY: W. W. Norton.
• White, M. (2011). Narrative practice: Continuing the conversations (D. Denborough, Ed.), New York, NY: W.W. Norton.

Journal articles

• White, M. (2005). Children, trauma and subordinate storyline development.  The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work , No.3&4.  
• White, M. (2004). Working with people who are suffering the consequences of multiple trauma: A narrative perspective. The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work , No.1.  
• White, M. (2003). Narrative practice and community assignments.  The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work , No.2.
• White, M. (2002). Journey metaphors.  The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work , No.4.
• White, M. (2002). Addressing personal failure.  The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work , No.3.
• White, M. (2001): Folk psychology and narrative practice.  Dulwich Centre Journal , No.2.
• White, M. (2001). Narrative practice and the unpacking of identity conclusions.  Gecko: A Journal of Deconstruction and Narrative Ideas in Therapeutic Practice , (1), 28-55.
• White, M. (1999). Reflecting-team work as definitional ceremony revisited.  Gecko: A Journal of Deconstruction and Narrative Ideas in Therapeutic Practice , (2), 55-82.
• White, M. (1997): Challenging the culture of consumption: Rites of passage and communities of acknowledgement. Dulwich Centre Newsletter , Nos.2&3.
• White, M. (1997). Comportamenti e loro determinanti o azioni e loro senso. Metafore sistemiche e narrative.  Connessioni Centro Milanese di Terapia della Famiglia  no 1.
• White, M. (1997).  The Mouse stories. In White, C. & Hales, J. (Eds.),  The personal is the professional: Therapists reflect on their families, lives and work . South Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications.
• White, M., & Epston, D. (1997). The by-pass operation: An approach to feeding problems in young children. In J. Freedman, D. Epston, & D. Lobovits, (Eds.),  Playful approaches to serious problems: Narrative therapy with children and their families . New York: W.W.Norton.
• Epston , D., & White, M. (1995). Termination as a rite of passage: Questioning strategies for a therapy of inclusion. In R. Neimeyer, & M. Mahoney (Edss),  Constructivism in psychotherapy . Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
• Epston, D., & White, M. (1995). Consulting your consultants: A means to the co-construction of alternative knowledges. In Friedman, S. (Ed.),  The feflecting team in action . New York: Guilford Press.
• Epston, D., White, M., & Murray, K. (1993). A proposal for a re-authoring therapy. Rose’s revisioning of her life and a commentary. In S. McNamee, K. J. & Gergen (Eds.),  Therapy as social construction . London: Sage Publications.
• White, M. (1993). Histories of the present. In S. Gilligan (Ed.),  Therapeutic conversations . New York: W.W.Norton.
• White, M. (1992). Men’s culture, the men’s movement, and the constitution of men’s lives.  Dulwich Centre Newsletter , No.3.-      Reprinted 1996 in  Men’s ways of being . New York: Westview Press.
• White, M. (1991): Deconstruction and therapy.  Dulwich Centre Newsletter,  No.2. –      Reprinted in S. Gilligan (Ed.),  Therapeutic conversations . New York: W.W.Norton. –      Reprinted in 1997 in Flemish in Migerode, L. & Rober, P.(Eds.),  Conversaties en Verhalen . Netherlands: Garant. –      Reprinted in 1998 in French in Cahiers E. Godbeter-Merinfeld (Ed.), Paris, Brusxelles: De Boeck Universit ( Constructivisme et Constructionisme Social: Auz Limites de la Systemique ). –      Reprinted in 1997 in German in Herausgegeben von Jochen Schweitzer, Arnold Retzer und Hans Rudi Fischer (Eds.) Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Taschenbuch.  Wissenschaft Systemische Praxis und Postmoderne .
• White, M., & Epston, D. (1991). A conversation about AIDS and dying.  Dulwich Centre Newsletter,  No.2.
• White, M. (1990). Consultation interviews and accountability.  Dulwich Centre Newsletter,  No.4.
• Epston, D. & White, M. (1990). Consulting your consultants: The documentation of alternative knowledges.  Dulwich Centre Newsletter,  No.4.
• White, M. (1989/90). Family therapy training and supervision in a world of experience and narrative.  Dulwich Centre Newsletter,  Summer.
• White, M. (1988/89). The externalizing of the problem and the re-authoring of lives and relationships.  Dulwich Centre Newsletter,  Summer. –      Translated and reprinted in Swedish, Spanish and Italian publications.
• White, M. (1988). Saying hullo again: The incorporation of the lost relationship in the resolution of grief.  Dulwich Centre Newsletter,  Spring.
• White, M. (1988). The process of questioning: A therapy of literary merit.  Dulwich Centre Newsletter,  Winter. –      Reprinted in German as ‘Der Vorgang der Befragung: ein literarisch wertvolle therapie?’  Familiendynamik, 14  (2) , 1989.
• White, M. (1988). Assumptions and therapy.  Dulwich Centre Newsletter,  Autumn.
• White, M. (1987). Family therapy and schizophrenia: Addressing the ‘in-the-corner’ lifestyle .  Dulwich Centre Newsletter, Spring.
• White, M. (1986). Couple therapy: Urgency for sameness or appreciation of difference.  Dulwich Centre Newsletter , Summer. –      Reprinted in  Family Therapy Journal , Argentina, 1988.
• White, M. (1986). The conjoint therapy of men who are violent and the women with whom they live.  Dulwich Centre Newsletter , Spring.
• White, M. (1986). Family escape from trouble.  Case Studies , 1(1).
• White, M. (1986). Ritual of inclusion: An approach to extreme uncontrolled behaviour in children and young adolescents.  Dulwich Centre Review . –      Reprinted in 1994 in  Journal of Child and Youth Care , Vol.9 No.2, Canada.
• White, M. (1986). Anorexia nervosa: A cybernetic perspective. In J. Elka-Harkaway (Ed. ) Eating disorders and family therapy . New York: Aspen. –      Reprinted in  Dulwich Centre Review,  1986.
• White, M. (1986). Negative explanation, restraint and double description: A template for family therapy.  Family Process, 25 (2).
• White, M. (1985). Fear busting and monster taming: An approach to the fears of young children.  Dulwich Centre Review . –      Reprinted in German as Kinderangste und familiare Interaktion.  Familiendynamik,  1986.
• White, M. & Epston, D. (1985). Consulting your consultants’ consultants. Melbourne, V.A.F.T.
• White, M. (1984). Pseudo-encopresis: From avalanche to victory, from vicious to virtuous cycles.  Family Systems Medicine, 2 (2) –      Reprinted in  Family Therapy Journal , Argentina.
• White, M. (1984). Marital therapy: Practical approaches to long-standing problems. The  Australian Journal of Family Therapy, 4 (1). –      Reprinted in  Familiendynamik , West Germany, 1985.
• White, M. (1983). Anorexia nervosa: A transgenerational system perspective.  Family Process, 18 (3).
• White, M. (1983). Psychosomatic problems. In M. Texto (Ed.),  Helping families with special problems . New York: Jason Aronson.
• White, M. (1980). Systemic task setting in family therapy.  Australian Journal of Family Therapy, 1 (4).
• White, M., Heins, T., Cooper, D., & Petrovic, L. (1980). Family therapy for chronic childhood asthma.  Australian Journal of Family Therapy, 1 (2).
• White, M. (1979). Distant family treatment – A case of school phobia.  Australian Paediatric Journal, 15 , 187-189.
• White, M. (1979). Structural and strategic approaches to psychosomatic families.  Family Process,  18 (3).

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At the Jerusalem synagogue where Hersh Goldberg-Polin danced in life, grief and anger reign after his death

JERUSALEM — Three hundred and thirty-two days after Hersh Goldberg-Polin danced in the courtyard next to his Jerusalem synagogue on the holiday of Simchat Torah, more than a thousand people gathered there in grief and prayer to mourn his murder by Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

During the Sunday night vigil, the courtyard railings were lined with oversized yellow ribbons to symbolize advocacy for the hostages, Hapoel Jerusalem soccer flags — the 23-year-old’s favorite team — and posters that read, “We love you, stay strong, survive,” a mantra coined by his mother, Rachel Goldberg-Polin.

Just hours earlier, one of the posters had been hanging over the balcony of the home of Shira Ben-Sasson, a leader of Hakhel, the Goldberg-Polins’ egalitarian congregation in the Baka neighborhood of Jerusalem.

“We were sure we would take it down when he came home,” Ben-Sasson said.

The community wanted to unite while respecting the Goldberg-Polins’ desire for privacy, she said, prompting them to organize the prayer gathering.

“But it’s like a Band-Aid or giving first aid, it’s what you do in an emergency. I don’t know how we go on after this,” she said.

A covered courtyard at the Hakhel congregation was filled with mourners the day after Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose family are prominent members, was found to have been killed in Gaza. Hundreds of other people crowded outside the gates, Sept. 1, 2024. (Deborah Danan)

She added that the community, which has a large contingent of English-speaking immigrants, was not prepared for the High Holidays, which begin in about a month. She said, “Seeing his empty seat is hard.”

For Ben-Sasson, who wore a T-shirt bearing the Talmudic dictum “There is no greater mitzvah than the redeeming of captives,” the tragedy is especially painful because, she said, it could have been avoided with a ceasefire agreement that freed hostages.

“Hersh was alive 48 hours ago. We think a deal could have saved him. There is no military solution to this,” she said.

That feeling of bereavement, often mixed with betrayal, pervaded gatherings across Israel on Sunday, as the country struggled with the news that six hostages who may have been freed in an agreement were now dead as negotiations continue to stall. Speakers at protests in Tel Aviv blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who himself apologized for not getting the hostages out alive but blamed Hamas for obstructing a deal. The country’s labor union, the Histadrut, has called a national strike on Monday to demand a deal.

A rare early September rain lashed parts of Israel on Sunday, leading to a widespread interpretation: God, too, was weeping.

Some at the Jerusalem gathering, including the relative of another former hostage, said Netanyahu had chosen defeating Hamas over freeing the captives.

Josef Avi Yair Engel’s grandson Ofir was released from Hamas captivity in November. He paid tribute to Hersh Goldberg-Polin, murdered in captivity, in Jerusalem, Sept. 1, 2024. (Deborah Danan)

Josef Avi Yair Engel, whose grandson Ofir, 18, was released from Hamas captivity in November during that month’s ceasefire deal, expressed shock over Hersh’s murder but said he was not surprised, given the wartime policies of Netanyahu’s government.

“We knew months ago this was going to happen. Bibi’s formula, to dismantle Hamas and return the hostages, wasn’t logical. It’s an either/or situation,” Engel said, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname. “He’s tearing the country apart. I’m afraid that in the coming months there won’t be a state at all.”

Engel said he felt a close bond with Hersh’s father Jon Polin, not only because of their joint activism in the hostage families’ tent outside the Prime Minister’s Residence, but also because of their shared identity as Jerusalemites.

“There aren’t many of us in the hostage circle,” he said. “We’re like family.”

Sarah Mann, who did not know the family personally, said the weekend’s tragedy reminded her of Oct. 7.

“This day has sparks of the seventh, which created numbness and an inability to talk. Just complete shock,” she said.

Mourners left notes at a gathering at Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s family synagogue in Jerusalem. Many of the messages used the Hebrew word for “sorry.” (Deborah Danan)

Part of the reason for that, Mann said, was Rachel, who she described as a “force of faith.” Goldberg-Polin’s mother emerged as the most prominent advocate for the hostages globally and became a symbol in her own right as she crisscrossed the world calling for her son’s freedom.

“Millions of people around the world held onto her. Once that was cut, people’s ability to hold onto faith was knocked out today. But even though this has shattered us, we need to keep holding onto God,” Mann said.

For Susi Döring Preston, the day called to mind was not Oct. 7 but Yom Kippur, and its communal solemnity.

She said she usually steers clear of similar war-related events because they are too overwhelming for her.

“Before I avoided stuff like this because I guess I still had hope. But now is the time to just give in to needing to be around people because you can’t hold your own self up any more,” she said, tears rolling down her face. “You need to feel the humanity and hang onto that.”

Like so many others, Döring Preston paid tribute to the Goldberg-Polins’ tireless activism. “They needed everyone else’s strength but we drew so much strength from them and their efforts, “she said. “You felt it could change the outcome. But war is more evil than good. I think that’s the crushing thing. You can do everything right, but the outcome is still devastating.”

Guy Gordon, with his daughter Maya, added a broken heart to the piece of tape he has worn daily to mark the number of days since the hostage crisis began, Sept. 1, 2024. (Deborah Danan)

Guy Gordon, a member of Hakhel who moved to Israel from Dublin, Ireland, in the mid-1990s, said the efforts towards ensuring Hersh’s safe return have been an anchor for the community during the war. The community knew him as the family described him in its announcement of his funeral on Tuesday, as “a child of light, love and peace” who enjoyed exploring the world and coming home to his family, including his parents and younger sisters, Leebie and Orly.

“It gave us something to hope for, and pray for and to demonstrate for,” he said. “We had no choice but to be unreasonably optimistic. Tragically it transpired that he survived until the very end.”

Gordon, like many others in the crowd, wore a piece of duct tape marked with the number of days since Oct. 7 — a gesture initiated by Goldberg-Polin’s mother. Unlike on previous days, though, his tape also featured a broken red heart beside the number.

Nadia Levene, a family friend, also reflected on the improbability of Hersh’s survival.

“He did exactly what his parents begged him to do. He was strong. He did survive. And look what happened,” Levene said.

She hailed Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s “unwavering strength and belief in God,” adding, “There were times I lost faith. I suppose I was angry with God. But she just kept inspiring us all to pray, pray, pray.”

Leah Silver of Jerusalem examined stickers showing Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s mantra for her son Hersh, who was murdered in captivity in Gaza, at a gathering after Hersh’s death, Sept. 1, 2024. (Deborah Danan)

Jerusalem resident Leah Silver rejected politicizing the hostages’ deaths.

“Everything turns political so quickly. I came here because I felt that before all the protests, we need to just mourn for a moment and to pray. And show respect for each other,” she said. “We’ve become confused about who the enemy is. It’s very sad.”

But not everyone at the gathering joined in to sing Israel’s national anthem at the closing of the prayer gathering.

“I’m sorry, I can’t sing ‘Hatikvah,'” Reza Green, a Baka resident who did not know the Goldberg-Polins personally, said. “I’m too angry. We shouldn’t be here.”

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