ABSTRACT
In the Introduction to Psychology for Actors, the author, Kevin Page, tells the story of how and why he wrote the book. As a student of both acting theory and psychology, Page realized that either much of the psychology that actors rely on (through the filter of Stanislavsky or many of the other classic acting theorists) is either dated, all the way back to the 1800s, or they have received no formal instruction in modern psychology, its methods and techniques, at all. This realization led the author to conceive of a book that would investigate many of the twentieth-century, post-Stanislavsky ideas about human psychology in terms that actors could understand and actively use in their professional work, both improving themselves and building characters.
