The Performing Art of Therapy - Mark O’Connell

The Performing Art of Therapy

Acting Insights and Techniques for Clinicians

The Performing Art of Therapy explores the myriad ways in which acting techniques can enhance the craft of psychotherapy. The book shows how, by understanding therapy as a performing art, clinicians can supplement their theoretical approach with techniques that fine-tune the ways their bodies, voices, and imaginations engage with and influence their clients. Les mer
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The Performing Art of Therapy explores the myriad ways in which acting techniques can enhance the craft of psychotherapy. The book shows how, by understanding therapy as a performing art, clinicians can supplement their theoretical approach with techniques that fine-tune the ways their bodies, voices, and imaginations engage with and influence their clients. Broken up into accessible chapters focused on specific attributes of performance, and including an appendix of step-by-step exercises for practitioners, this is an essential guidebook for therapists looking to integrate their theoretical training into who they are as individuals, find joy in their work, expand their empathy, increase self-care, and inspire clients to perform their own lives.
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Forlag: Routledge
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Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 204
ISBN: 9781138737624
Format: 23 x 15 cm
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"The Performing Art of Therapy is a significant contribution to the field of counseling and psychotherapy. Mark O’Connell has given us a smart, practical, and deeply personal book that will be useful to therapists of all orientations. So much of psychotherapy is taught by text, in a removed, scientific, objective style. O'Connell presents therapy as a creative art, emphasizing performance and the experiential dimension of the encounter. This is not a list of techniques but rather a journey into the use of oneself as the essential instrument of therapeutic engagement."—Lewis Aron, PhD, director of the New York University postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and author of Dramatic Dialogues: Contemporary Clinical Practice

"Mark O’Connell writes to enliven therapists’ use of their selves as creative artists. He situates himself at the intersection of acting and psychotherapy, from which he offers practical exercises that focus on mind, »

Acknowledgements. Prologue Act I. Prepare 1. Listen 2. Know What You Look Like (And Use Your Subtext) 3. Know What You Sound Like (And Face Your Inner Critic) 4. Be Present 5. Breathe 6. Embody 7. Speak 8. Warm Up Act II. Rehearse 9. Frame 10. Play 11. Find the Characters 12. Love Act III. Perform 13. Narrate 14. Direct 15. Publicize 16. Present 17. Take a Bow 18. Audition. Epilogue. Exercises. Drawings. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
Mark O’Connell, LCSW-R, MFA, is a New York City-based psychotherapist in private practice, an author, and an actor. He is the author of Modern Brides & Modern Grooms: A Guide to Planning Straight, Gay, and Other Nontraditional Twenty-First-Century Weddings. For more information, see www.markoconnelltherapist.com.