Psychology for Actors by Page, Kevin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Psychology for Actors Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Psychology of an Actor

Psychology as a Map or Model Psychological Evaluations: Pathology and Disease vs. Personality Types and Traits The Multiplicity of Postmodernity What Is Here and What Is Not The Multi-Perspectival Actor

1 A Very Brief History of Psychology in the West

2 Two Freuds: Free Association and the Defense Mechanisms

The Id, Ego, and Superego Stages of Psychosexual Development Psychoanalysis and Free Association Anna Freud: Defenses and Developmental Lines Psychoanalytic Activities for Actors A Brief Example of Freudian Text Analysis Exploring Defense Mechanisms Free Association

3 Carl G. Jung: Types, Archetypes, and Dreams

Two Realms of the Unconscious Personality Types and Functions: The Introvert and Extrovert Jung’s Structure of the Psyche Dreamwork and Active Imagination Analytic Psychology Activities for Actors Archetypal Identification Type Analysis: The Introvert/Extrovert Continuum Persona and Shadow Dreamwork Active Imagination

4 Alfred Adler: Inferiority and the Individual

Will to Power Life Goals and Lifestyle Early Childhood Recollections and the Birth Order Affect on Development Social Context and Cooperation Individual Psychology Activities for Actors

5 Karen Horney: Psychoanalytic Social Theory

Basic Anxiety and a Developmental Schema Toward, Against, and Away from Others The Idealized Image and the Tyranny of the Shoulds Psychoanalytic Social Theory Activities for Actors

6 Erik Erikson: Life Span Development

Developmental Stages, Polarities, and Virtues Life Span Development Activities for Actors

7 Abraham Maslow: Motivation and Humanistic Psychology

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Self-Actualization Peak Experiences Humanistic Psychology Exercises for the Actor

8 Ken Wilber: Integral Psychology

Quadrants, Levels, Lines, States, and Types The AQAL Approach and Integral Psychology Integral Psychology Exercises for Actors Your Character’s Lines of Development

9 Personality Testing and Pathology

Psychological Tests vs. Personality Inventories The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator The “Big Five” Personality Factors Madness, Insanity, and the Mental Illness Model Conclusions

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