By Michael White
Use of letter-writing in relations therapy.
White and Epston base their treatment at the assumption that folks event difficulties while the tales in their lives, as they or others have invented them, don't sufficiently characterize their lived adventure. treatment then turns into a technique of storying or restorying the lives and stories of those humans. during this approach narrative involves play a crucial position in treatment. either authors percentage pleasant examples of a storied treatment that privileges a person’s lived event, inviting a reflexive posture and inspiring a feeling of authorship and reauthorship of one’s reports and relationships within the telling and retelling of one’s tale.
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Call a it is its . work. (1980, . p. 82) clear that Foucault does not propose any alternative ideology, any other ideal unitary organize our . lives. knowledge around which we can Neither does he suggest that it is possible to *For an example of an attempt to resurrect subjugated erudite knowledge, see Dale Spender's Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them (1983). Story, Knowledge, and Power 27 "deny" knowledge, that is, to act apart from and experience the world from outside of the mediating effects of knowledge and discursive practices.
Moreover, readers will notice a certain inevitable overlapping of ideas Knowledge and Power Commonly, and Power is tions in it is its under the different headings. as Constitutive proposed that power effects, that it is is repressive in its opera- negative in force and character. said to disqualify, limit, deny, and contain. However, we predominantly experience the positive or of power, that we are subject to power through Foucault argues that constitutive effects normalizing "truths" that shape our power (Foucault, 1979, 1980, and relationships.
Life experience is richer than discourse. Narrative and give meaning to experience, but there are always feelings and lived experience not fully encompassed by the dominant story. (E. Bruner, 1986a, structures organize p. 143) The structuring of a narrative requires recourse to a selective pro- cess in not fit which we prune, from our experience, those events that do we and others have with the dominant evolving stories that a reinterpretation of these facts, the second North Americans to perform meaning around and express many aspects of their lived experience that were not visible in *Apart from allowing for story also enabled Native "readings" of the first story.
