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Monthly Specials
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On a regular basis, we will be offering our on-going customers very special offers and rates for our videos. |
MONTHLY SPECIAL: Michael White - Beating Sneaky Wee
$75.00 On April 4, 2008, Michael White, at the age of 59, died of a heart attack. He was in San Diego, California, having finished day one of a three-day workshop. Michael was the co-founder, with David Epston, of Narrative Therapy, and his death creates a vacuum that will be impossible to fill. He was a colleague and personal friend. We met at an AFTA meeting in Chicago in early 1988, and were privileged to document his clinical work from that time on. To build a context, Michael was forty years old and working on developing a new approach to therapy, something he called, “literary means to therapeutic ends.” He and David had self-published a paperback book about what they were thinking about and he was beginning to present at small international workshops. This was before reflecting teams, or outsider witness groups, as he came to call them, were invented. Michael was largely known for his work with enuretic and encopretic children, mostly from an article he had published entitled, “From Avalanche to Victory.” The subtitle mentioned “pseudo-encopresis,” since Michael claimed that he had never found a case where a mother was to blame for the encopresis, therefore, it must be that he had been working with pseudo-encopresis. His work was brilliant. He connected with children and he was a shining example of good contact and caring. We documented a case with a five-year old who was still wetting her pants and in spite of obtaining a single-session cure, Michael was reluctant to allow us to market the tape. We did a six-month follow-up and added that to the program but Michael was still reluctant to sell the tape. At the beginning of his career, Michael did not want to become known for “Beating Sneaky Wee.” We have used this program in our trainings for nearly twenty years now and many, many clinicians have learned a valuable lesson from this example. Additionally, Michael White has come to stand for so much more than working with enuresis or encopresis. Narrative Therapy has become synonymous with externalizing the problem, finding alternative stories that are more affirming than the dominant story, reauthoring lives and reflecting processes. However, those children who still wet their pants, still show up in family therapy. We have decided to make available the original program, “Beating Sneaky Wee,” knowing that no-one could now make the mistake of pigeon-holing Michael’s work to this specialty. So, our monthly special will commemorate this work. It is also reminiscent of the early years of a developing Narrative Therapy. There are no reflections, Michael goes out to consult with the team and returns with a message. The technical aspects of the program are more primitive but Michael’s characteristic work comes shining through. The DVD, “Beating Sneaky Wee,” will be priced at $75 through July, 2008. [ Add to Cart] [ View Cart] |