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Article: Dear Michael
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- Psychotherapy Networker
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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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 Âpost-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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Article: Dear Michael (3).(Brief Article)(Poem)
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June 22, 2004 ;
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...Will we ever leave the subjunctive, the moody forecasts of doubt, and will we grow certain of white marble and touch, so that to speak is to know whereof the words issue and why? These are old questions I have long explored you will say, and call down the circling hawk, and greet me with a
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