Issues of authenticity in roleplaying in therapeutic settings
1. Issues of authenticity in roleplaying in therapeutic settings
how people live their lives like actors performing on a stage and how we should strive to remove our masks
to be authentic
Action
Masking
Practitioner acting ‘professionally’ ≠ empathy
Client ‘acting up’ to power ≠
removing the mask from both
Motivational Interviewing practitioner and client
Roleplaying/acting
Stanislavski- being in the moment creates authenticity
Brecht – action creates emotion, no need for authenticity
Theory
Dramaturgy “the self is a sense of who one
is, a dramatic effect emerging a particular
scene” Goffman, involves
status, role, scripts, stage & boundaries
Performativity- we ‘act’ our
gender, race, sexuality, according to our own, and
society’s understanding of that gender, etc
Epistemology
Cohen (1985) Symbolic construction of community
Blumer- Symbolic interactionism
Berger and Luckmann -Social construction of reality
Tim Curtis, The University of Northampton, 2013