1st Edition
The Performance Therapist and Authentic Therapeutic Identity Coming into Being
By Sara London
Copyright 2024
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
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Exploring what it means to be an authentic therapist in the present day, Sara London playfully melds together the tenets of performance art and psychoanalytic theory to advance the hopeful new notion of the performance therapist .
In an era where the therapist is now more of a public-facing entity than ever before, developing a sense of who one is both inside and outside of the consulting... Read more
Part One: Performance Art 1. History of Performance Art 2. Performance Art in Practice 3. Performance Art in Psychoanalysis Part Two: Identity 1. The Tripartite Structure 2. The Persona 3. The False Self and the Idealized Image Part Three: Performance 1. The Structural Performance 2. The Emotional Performance 3. The Intersection of Structure and Emotion: How Therapeutic Performance Looks 4. The Therapeutic Table Set for Two Part Four: Authenticity 1. Performing a 'Real Relationship' 2. Self-Disclosure and Authenticity 3. Authenticity and the Environment Part Five: Application 1. Coming into Being (or, the Magic of Relating)
Biography
Sara London, M.A. is a freelance journalist, author, and satirist-when-convenient. She has a graduate degree in a specialised psychoanalytic research program from New York University’s Gallatin School. Additionally, she writes articles about psychology, wellness, pop culture, and the future of work primarily to fund her many hare-brained schemes.
