Autobiographical Therapeutic Performance as Individual Therapy

Abstract

Autobiographical therapeutic performance (ATP) provides clients seeking personal growth and change the opportunity to give aesthetic form to the wounding experiences and negative messages that have shaped them. It can transform and reintegrate their traumas into a new life-affirming sense of self and an emotionally generative life script. ATP organically follows a rite of passage and hero’s journey structure, which can be useful metaphors in guiding both the development of the theatre piece and the therapeutic process. Furthermore, Transactional Analysis concepts can be used as a therapeutic template, integrating and adapting ideas such as the therapeutic contract, life script and re-decision to the ATP process, as well as emphasizing the role of reparative witness. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 6 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.