Talk Therapy as Cultural Practice: A "Narrative" Approach to Culture, Power, and Change

Date: Feb 28, 2008
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Helen Gremillion, from Gender Studies, will speak at the Poynter Center. "Narrative therapy," developed in the 1980s by Australian Michael White in collaboration with New Zealander David Epston, is an approach to talk therapy that explores the sociopolitical contexts of all clients' lives and relationships. Narrative work grew out of a critique of supposed cultural and interpersonal "neutrality" or "objectivity" within mainstream therapeutic practice. This talk presents narrative work as an alternative to standard therapies for anorexia nervosa in particular (the latter is the subject of Gremillion's book, Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center).
More Contact Info: Glenda Murray
Location: Poynter Center, 618 East Third Street
Web site: http://poynter.indiana.edu/medethics.shtml