Article: Dear Michael

Dear Michael Michael White taught us how to retell our life stories

By Stephen Madigan

You're the one who trained me to write letters to clients to underline what you called their "know-how's"--their usually taken-for-granted ability to survive all manner of abuse, ridicule, and trauma, and display remarkable qualities of heroism and capability. Since 1990, I've probably written thousands of ­post-session letters to people, celebrating their unnoticed strengths and overlooked accomplishments. So I've had lots of practice at trying to say things that usually remain unsaid. But writing this--now that you're gone from us with such shocking suddenness--is by far the most difficult thing I've ...

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