Cultivating change: personal challenge in psychophysical training

Helping actors improve their career well-being

“…Confronting this issue, Seton (2008) shed light on the complex nature of the acting practice and the impact of "post-dramatic stress" (borrowing from post-traumatic stress disorder) on actors' lives (p. 2), while Middleton (2012) argued that acting training has not been examined through a psychological lens, even though it requires actors to work intensively with material located within one's own mind/body. Along these lines, research by Prior et al (2015) suggested that an investigation into an actor's personal well-being is more often than not scarce, even though Brandfonbrener (1992) wrote of actors as "The Forgotten Patients," who face health risks and psychological hazards while endeavoring to portray with depth a character's emotions, not to mention acquire possible negative personality traits of their character.…”

“…Confronting this issue, Seton (2008) shed light on the complex nature of the acting practice and the impact of “post-dramatic stress” (borrowing from post-traumatic stress disorder) on actors’ lives (p. 2), while Middleton (2012) argued that acting training has not been examined through a psychological lens, even though it requires actors to work intensively with material located within one’s own mind/body. Along these lines, research by Prior et al.…”