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Michael White as Teacher, Mentor Friend: Considering Claims of Guru-ism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2012

Marilyn O'Neill
Marilyn O'Neill*
Affiliation:
Counsellor/Family and Couple Therapist in Private Practice, Sydney, Australia.oneillm@bigpond.net.au
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*Address for correspondence: Marilyn O'Neill, PO Box 600, Cammeray NSW 2062, Australia.
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Abstract

A reflection written on the 20th anniversary of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy and around the first anniversary of the death of its first editor and respected Narrative therapist, author and theorist Michael White. This article reviews the influence of Michael White on the work and life of the author. In this reflection, it reviews some of the significant features of Michael White's teaching, which allows a consideration of claims of ‘guru-ism’ occasionally related to Michael White's work.

Keywords

Michael Whitenarrative therapypostmodernismmental illnessdecontructedconversational processscaffolding conversationsre-authoringtraumapositive failuredistressre-membranelegacyguru
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , 01 June 2009 , pp. 132 - 141
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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