Day 13 is our last full day in Australia and took place at the
University of Melbourne's Center for International Mental Health
in their School of Population Health. The format consisted of
informal discussions with faculty and students followed by a
formal presentation by me with subsequent discussions. Today was
more academic. I talked about the compatibility of indigenous
views of narrative and of narrative practice with contemporary
neuroscience and with social constructionism as well as the
social construction of the brain as typified by Charles
Whitehead, Robert Turner, and others. Of course, we had to begin
by acknowledging Michael White, a legend and in his own country,
at that, but also pointing out, as I have mentioned in previous
Days, that Michael represents a branch on a very large tree for
which I submit that indigenous people are the trunk and the
roots. Michael approached narrative as technique, as finding the
client's story and changing it through a variety of clever
externalization technique