Articles

Notes for a workshop delivered at the Second Aotearoa Solution Focused Practice Conference, Christchurch, March 15th 2017

A competency mechanism-NZ Journal of Counselling 2017, 37,1: 44-63.-A review of the NZ HPCA Act as it might concern NZ Counsellors, suggesting that they adopt routine outcome monitoring as a mechanism to show competency.

A mechanism for competency (not in refereed journal)-A review of the NZ HPCA Act, guild protection rackets, and an alternative mechanism for public protection.

A taste of Wittgenstein for SFBT – 2. Journal of Solution Focused Brief Therapy, 1, 2: 41-58-This article is made available with the consent of the copyright holder, the Journal of Solution Focused Brief Therapy. An overview of Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations for Solution Focused Brief therapists.

A taste of Wittgenstein for SFBT – 1. Journal of Solution Focused Brief Therapy, 1,1: 11-29.-This article is made available with the consent of the copyright holder, the Journal of Solution Focused Brief Therapy. An overview of Wittgenstein and the Tractatus for Solution Focused Brief therapists.

Mental health is an ‘abominable mess’: Mind and nature a necessary unity. NZ Journal of Psychology, 43, 1: 5-17-This article is made available with the consent of the copyright holder, the NZ Journal of Psychology. A review of ‘real world’ outcomes in Mental Health.

Wittgenstein and the Red Queen: Attuning to the world and each other. NZ Journal of Psychology, 42, 3: 18-26.This article is made available with the consent of the copyright holder, the NZ Journal of Psychology.
Outcome feedback tools can assist both clients and therapists attune to Wittgenstein’s non-dualistic world.

Wittgenstein and the tikanga of psychotherapy. NZ Journal of Psychology, 40,2: 16-24.This article is made available with the consent of the copyright holder, the NZ Journal of Psychology. The non-dualistic world revealed by Wittgenstein’s Investigations can be witnessed in Māoritanga; we might take lessons.

Crisis engagement in mental health: A NZ Mäori contribution. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 17, 5: 317-325.This article is made available with the consent of the copyright holder, the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. Co-authored with Te Ata Munro this paper advocates the priority of engagement over assessment in MH crises.

A pōwhiri poutama approach to therapy. N.Z. Journal of Counselling, 27, 1: 9-20.This article is made available with the consent of the copyright holder, the NZ Journal of Counselling.
The ritualistic steps taken on traversing a NZ Māori meeting house as a model of therapy.

The kaupapa outcome rating scale. NZ Journal of Counselling, 27, 1: 21-32.This article is made available with the consent of the copyright holder, the NZ Journal of Counselling. An outcome rating scale based on the NZ Māori whare tapa whā model of health.

The delicate scientist practitioner. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 27, 4: 177-186.This article is made available with the consent of the copyright holder, the Australian & NZ Journal of Family Therapy.
A suggestion to adopt Goethe’s ‘delicate empiricism’ as an alternative to the Boulder model.

Three stories. Context: The Magazine for Family Therapy & Systemic Practice. December, 2003, 70: 2-6This article is made available with the consent of the copyright holder, Context. Three stories for telling in therapy for their therapeutic effect.

Amy and the fear monster-not in refereed journal.-A brief Narrative therapy story of 7year old Amy sorting out a fear monster.

From anorexia to model: Taking seriously a young woman’s goal” Family Therapy Case Studies, 7, 1: 29-32.-This article is made available with the consent of the copyright holder, the Family Therapy Case Studies. A case study on the dramatic success of a young woman wanting to be a model via a very simple intervention.

Anorexia tattoo. Presentation at the National Eating Disorders Meeting, Wellington. (Revised 1998)A 2-part case sudy utilising Narrative therapy & a purposively split team with a young woman first met in intensive care.

A strange encounter with Carl Auer: a story of pi. Not in refereed journal, Revised in 2014.-My first encounter with seeing the world from inside out rather than outside in.

No theory solution focused practices is a way of life: A further step to an ecology of mind’ – Journal of Solution Focused Practices, 2022, Vol 6(2) article 10; which is an article that elaborates on Steve de Shazer’s often quoted quip that SFBT has no theory.

Radical enactivism: A guide for the perplexed. Co-authored with Keith Tudor. Journal of Theoretical And Philosophical Psychology, 2024, 44(1), 1-16. This article attempts to set out the varying positions taken by enactivists in cognitive science – enactivism is the idea that we think with our bodies by making subtle physical movements as we consider various things.

Trigant Burrow and the social world. Co-authored with Keith Tudor. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 2022, 19(2), 187-201. This article looks at the prescient Trigant Burrow who in 1922 argued that mother is the love subject, not the love object as Freud had claimed, and mind-at-large (the unconscious) includes the social (and ecological). He was doing bio-feedback demonstrations decades before it became popular.

Has the time come for Trigant Burrow. An unpublished paper that heralds the first American psychoanalyst – who was such a radical he got kicked out of the American Psychoanalytic Society which he’d helped found!

Inviting Relational Responsibility – Another unpublished paper reviewing Foucault’s account of the fabrication of the ‘autonomous self’ and the emergence of the dangerous ‘psy complex’ in regulating our lives.

Yin-yang and developmental systems theory: How the West fell from grace. This paper was rejected by several journals but essentially how the West lost site of the yin-yang balance in 539 BCE, and the clawing of our way back.

Radical Enactivism and Māoritanga: Autonomy, Homonomy and Heteronomy. Co-authored with Keith Tudor. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, 2025, 20(2). 14-41. This paper looks at how major elements of Radical enactivism were present in Måoritanga and it is therefore a good guide to finding ecological harmony.

Radical enactivism, relational responsibility, and restorative justice. Unpublished paper reviewing Levinas’ ethical position that we have a relational responsibility for all, this fits well with enactivism, and this can be applied in restorative justice and my own experience of this.

Limbic – The travelling therapy bear. The NZ Solution Focused Conference (2017) presentation of Limbic photographed with a number of leading therapists from around the world. Self-soothing.

Daruma dolls and Solution Focused Practice . Journal of Solution Focused Practice, 2025, 9(1) 20-32. A way of being exemplified by Daruma Dolls (Roly-poly toys). https:/​/​doi.org/​10.59874/​001c.140675

Introduction to the New Materialism(s): Deleuze, Barad, and the end of the linguistic turn. Under review with a journal currently. Looks at the emerging new paradigm known as the ’new materialism(s)’ that serves as a basis for enactivism and brings into focus co-evolution

Deleuze and the new materialism(s) comes to SFP. Under review with a journal currently. Looks at the new materialism(s) paradigm as it relates to solution focused practices.