ABSTRACT
In fixed-role therapy the clinician conceives his job as one of preparing the client to resume the natural developmental processes of which he is capable. In writing a fixed-role sketch the clinician is particularly sensitive to the constructs in the self-characterization sketch which imply immobility—that is, the impermeable constructs in which the self is one of the elements. Fixed-role therapy is used either in conjunction with other therapeutic procedures or by itself. The personal-construct psychologist is willing to take the position that a person is what he does; and, by fixed-role therapy, as well as by other procedures, he encourages the client to see himself from this viewpoint. One of the most interesting outcomes of fixed-role therapy is the adoption by some clients of a new role which is neither the fixed role nor like the one they described in their original self-characterization. It would seem that fixed-role therapy would provide an interesting and useful way of approaching group psychotherapy.
