Michael White Research Articles

Original Liberty Jazz Band

America’s only true contribution to the arts, jazz, has become a popular worldwide phenomenon since its birth just over 100 years ago. Though it has evolved into several different styles, each with their own geniuses and heroes, none has remained more functional and socially vibrant than its original form: New Orleans jazz. Though the music has often been commercialized and misunderstood, the unique cultural environment that gave birth to jazz still exists in some form today and the music is still part of New Orleans celebrations: parades, weddings, funerals, parties, etc. The program ‘‘New Orleans Jazz: A Musical, Cultural, and Social Tradition,’’ is a rare opportunity to learn about and be entertained by this unique musical form. In the opening segment, Dr. Michael White outlines the origins, social significance, spread, and musical characteristics of New Orleans jazz. The next segment uses Dr. White’s internationally known Original Liberty Jazz Band (which consists of all New Orleans-born descendants of the first generation of jazz pioneers), to demonstrate the role of each instrument, various song types, and the characteristic process of ‘‘polyphony’’ or collective improvisation. The band will perform numerous standards of New Orleans jazz, including the works of the tradition’s most outstanding practitioners such as Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Sidney Bechet. The music is highly emotional, spiritual, and exciting. Audience participation through discussion is welcome.

An unreliable history

Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science. By Michael White and John Gribbin. Viking: 1992. Pp. 304. £16.99. To be published in June in the United States by New American Library at $23.

The application of Michel Foucault's philosophy in the problem externalizing discourse of Michael White

This paper examines how Michael White's theoretical and practice orientation can be mapped onto the work of French philosopher/historian Michel Foucault. Specifically, Foucault's analysis of his three modes of the objectification of the subject and the inseparability of power and knowledge will be viewed as similar to, and shaping of, White's conceptions of externalizing internalized problem discourse. Where religions once demanded the sacrifice of bodies, knowledge now calls for experimentation on ourselves, calls us to the sacrifice of the subject of knowledge Michel Foucault: Madness and Civilization

Book reviews

Journal of Family TherapyVolume 14, Issue 1 p. 93-101 Free Access Book reviews First published: 1992 https://doi.org/10.1046/j..1992.00445.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Tilman Furniss, The Multi Professional Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse, Integrated Management, Therapy and Legal Intervention William N. Friedrich, Psychotherapy of Sexually Abused Children and Their Families Michael White and David Epston, Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends Cloé Madanes, Sex, Love and Violence: Strategies for Transformation Neil Frude, Understanding Family Problems: A Psychological Approach Volume14, Issue11992Pages 93-101 RelatedInformation

Outside Expert Knowledge; An interview with Michael White

Michael White is an internationally renowned family therapist from Dulwich Centre in South Australia. In this interview, Michael discusses his ideas and experiences covering a wide range of topics including the re‐authoring process, changing roles of therapists and persons in therapy, the reflecting team, training, and the future of family therapy.

The Case of the Sneaky Sleep Thief: White's Externalizing Technique Within a Broad Strategic Frame

The use of Michael White's technique, “externalizing the problem”, as applied within an integrated strategic framework is presented. Components of the MRI, de Shazer, White, Milan, and Haley models of Strategic Family Therapy are utilized. The case of the “sneaky sleep thief” also illustrates how the family can lead the way in therapy, with the therapists formulating hypotheses and offering tasks in response to the family's problem presentation and feedback. The family may lead therapists from one frame to another, inviting flexibility, spontaneity, fun, and effective treatment. The unifying theme is that, while working within an integrated strategic framework, the therapists offer what seems to work, utilizing skills already in the family's repertoire.

The Reauthoring of Therapist's Stories: Taking Doses of Our Own Medicine

Gregory Bateson's concept of double description and Michael White and David Epston's notion of doing family therapy from a literary or narrative analogy are explored in relation to the reauthoring of therapist's stories. This exploration attempts to answer the question of what self-management, supervision, and consultation would look like if we applied the same techniques that we use with therapeutic clients? Various ideas and questions are presented which address the following areas: (1) rewriting our stories about clients, (2) rewriting our stories about ourselves, (3) rewriting other therapist's stories, and (4) rewriting industrial consultation stories.

Cybernetics, Relative Influence Questions and the Therapist

Occasionally therapists encounter clients who dismiss statements of support and affirmation. This paper examines the effect of such situations on one therapist through some of the views of cybernetic theory and writings of Michael White. The use of relative influence questions with two case examples are illustrated to show how a new therapeutic context was created. Lastly, some considerations of a cybernetic therapy model are discussed with the therapist in mind.

Michael White (ed.), The Social World of the Young Unemployed, Policy Studies Institute, London, 1987. 92 pp. paper £4.95.

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Taming Chemical Monsters: Cybernetic-Systemic Therapy with Adolescent Substance Abusers

This paper demonstrates the utility of applying Michael White's family therapy approach with adolescent substance abusers. A brief overview of the cybernetic-systemic family approach will be provided. This will be followed by a case example of a family that had been oppressed by alcoholism problems for four generations.

Treatment of Encopresis Using Modifications to Michael White's Approach

This case study describes the efforts of one family therapy team to implement the “map for therapy” developed by Michael White to treat encopresis. Whereas the team discovered that White's map was useful in charting a general course for treatment, they also discovered the necessity of devising some novel interventions when therapy moved beyond the boundaries of the map. This article reports on implementation of the map, as well as the “detours”. The team concluded that detours will often be necessary, though the precise nature of these will depend on the idiosyncratic patterns of the particular family and family-helper systems.

Resources for a Journey of Hope: the Work of Welfare State International

Founded by John Fox in Bradford in 1968, Welfare State International – WSI for short – is a consortium of freelance associates, many of whom have a fine art background. Funded by the Arts Council to research prototype forms of visual, celebratory theatre and ceremonial art, the company has achieved an international reputation for its original and pioneering work, having worked for and with communities throughout Britain and Europe, and as far afield as Japan, Australia, the USA, Canada, and Tanzania. Handcrafted celebratory events may variously incorporate specially made pyrotechnic animations, iceworks, architectural lanterns, carnival orchestras, oratorios of popular song, clay grottoes, mobile tableaux of performance art, theatrical transformations, surreal films, and infernal sculptural machines. WSI has consistently explored the territory between theatrical product and applied anthropology. In the original series of Theatre Quarterly, a feature in TQ8 (1972), compiled by John Fox, described and illustrated the company's early years, and in 1983 Tony Coult and Baz Kershaw edited a ‘Welfare State Handbook’ for Methuen, entitled Engineers of the Imagination. As the company celebrates its twentieth anniversary, its Development Director, Michael White, looks at some current directions and preoccupations in WSI's work and thinking.

White and the Cybernetic Therapies: News of Difference

This article discusses the therapy of Michael White and compares his approach with other cybernetic approaches, including structural family therapy, Haley/Madanes, MRI and the Milan approach. The White approach shares some significant commonalities with MRI and can be considered a strategic therapy. Nevertheless there are also substantial differences. Particular features of the White approach that differentiate it from other strategic models include double description, the role of restraints, and the selective links the therapy makes with the social contexts of problems.

Archaeological Evidence of Church Life before Constantine

Book Review| September 01 1987 Archaeological Evidence of Church Life before Constantine Archaeological Evidence of Church Life before Constantine, Graydon F. Snyder. L. Michael White L. Michael White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Biblical Literature (1987) 106 (3): 560–562. https://doi.org/10.2307/3261101 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation L. Michael White; Archaeological Evidence of Church Life before Constantine. Journal of Biblical Literature 1 September 1987; 106 (3): 560–562. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3261101 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveSBL PressJournal of Biblical Literature Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Sociological Analysis of Early Christian Groups: A Social Historian's Response

Journal Article Sociological Analysis of Early Christian Groups: A Social Historian's Response Get access L. Michael White L. Michael White Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue 3, Fall 1986, Pages 249–266, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711378 Published: 01 October 1986

Michael White, Long-term Unemployment and Labour Markets, Report No. 622, Policy Studies Institute, London, 1983. 295 pp. £6.50.

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The Capital Budget: History and Future Directions

While there is a substantial body of literature concerning capital programming and budgeting in the private sector, there is only a modest literature on this subject in the public sector. Government researchers and public administration scholars have, for about seventy‐five years, recognized the value of budgeting for operating expenses and have tried to develop theoretical frameworks for the public budgeting process. However, very little of this attention has been devoted to capital budgeting. As Alan Steiss has stated,“ The theory of capital budgeting has not been set forth; rather the emphasis... has been on devising and improving the techniques of capital budgeting.” Michael White has called capital budgeting an “elusive subject” that “lacks clear definitions, organized traditions of inquiry, conceptual boundaries, standard questions, and reliable data sets.”

BOOK REVIEWS

Book review in this article:Unions, Change and Crisis: French and Italian Union Strategy and The Political Economy, 1945–1980. By Peter Lange, George Ross, and Maurizio Vannicelli.The Medical Effects of Nuclear War: Report of The British Medical Association's Board of Science and Education.Nuclear War: The Aftermath. Edited by Jeannie Peterson.The Fate of The Earth. By Jonathan Schell.The Survival Option: A Guide to Living Through Nuclear War. By Ivan Tyrrell.Understanding the United Kingdom: The Territorial Dimension in Government. By Richard RoseThe Territorial Dimension in United Kingdom Politics. Edited by Peter Madgwick and Richard RoseThe English World: History, Character and People. Edited by Robert Blake.Europe's Nuclear Power Experiment: History of the OECD Dragon Project. By E. N. Shaw.Fusion: Science, Politics and the Invention of a New Energy Source. By Joan Lisa Bromberg.The Prelude to the Truman Doctrine: British Policy in Greece 1944–1947. By G. M. Alexander.Under Japanese Management. By Michael White and Malcolm Trevor.

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:Labour Law and Politics in the Weimar Republic, edited by Roy Lewis and Jon Clark.Stagflation Vol. 1 Wage Fixing, by J.E. Meade. Allen & UnwinPayment Systems in Britain, Michael White, GowerPay in the Public Sector, R.F. Elliot, and J.F. FallickEffects of the Temporary Employment Subsidy, B.M. Deakin and C.F. PrattenManagers in Focus: The British Manager in the Early 1980s, by Michael Poole, Roger Mansfield, Paul Blyton and Paul FrostWho Gets to the Top?, A Sociological Study of Business Executives, by Gloria L. Lee. GowerThe Dynamics of White‐Collar Unionism: A Study of Local Union Participation, by Nigel Nicholson, Gill Ursell and Paul BlytonIndustrial Relations in International Perspective: Essays on Research and Policy, edited by P.B. DoeringerThe Militancy of British Miners by V.L. AllenKing Coal, Miners, Coal and Britain's Industrial Future by Tony HallAu milieu du gué, Jean‐Louis MoynotWorking Life: A Social Science Contribution to Work Reform, by B. Gardell and G. JohanssonOrganized Workers and Socialist Politics in Interwar Japan, by Stephen S. Large

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:Design for Work and Use. Ergonomic Case Studies Vol. II. Edited by H. G. MAULE & J.S. WEINER.Ergonomics at Work. By DAVID J. OBORNE.Working Life: A Social Science Contribution to Work Reform. Edited by B. GARDELL & G. JOHANSSON.Psychology and Industrial Productivity. Edited by M. M. GRUNEBERG & D. J. OBORNE.Alcohol Problems in Employment. Edited by B. D. HORE & M. A. PLANTMARSHALL, J. & COOPER, C. L. (eds) (1981). Coping with Stress at Work.WARR, P. B. (ed.) (1980). Psychology at Work.Understanding the Unemployed. By JOHN HAYES & PETER NUTMAN.Organizations: Theory and Analysis. BY ARTHUR G. BEDEIAN.The Hidden Meaning of Pay Conflict. By MICHAEL WHITE.