ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses various ways that actors and other performing artists can show therapists how to make the most of their clinical presentations—to peers and to the public. Guidelines are provided for how clinicians can engage their audiences as “scene partners” in different mediums, and how they can receive their listener’s observations even as they share their own knowledge, lessons, and opinions. The author suggests that presentations are not only opportunities to perform, but also to listen, reflect, and mutually exchange ideas between participants.