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Method acting is employed by actors to evoke realistic emotions into their performance by drawing on personal experiences. Raymond Hamden, doctor of Clinical and Forensic Psychology, defines the purpose of method acting as “compartmentalizing their own feelings while playing another character () they could bring the emotions of that personal feeling to cry if they needed to with that character.” 〔Hamden, Raymond. “Clinical and Forensic Psychology.”〕 However, when these emotions are not compartmentalized, they can encroach on other facets of life, often seeming to disrupt the actor’s psyche. This occurs as the actor delves into previous emotional experiences, be they joyful or traumatic.〔Hamden, Raymond. “Clinical and Forensic Psychology.”〕 The psychological effects, like emotional fatigue, comes, however when suppressed or unresolved raw emotions are unburied to add to the character.〔Grandley, Alicia A. “When ‘The Show Must Go On’: Surface Acting As Determinants of Emotional Exhaustion and Peer-Rated Service Delivery.”〕 not just from the employing personal emotions in performance. The question becomes whether the actor calls up resolved or unresolved emotions in their acting. == Psychological effects == The psychological effects of method acting vary in intensity from individual to individual. Some common effects include; *Fatigue *Fear *Anxiety *Shame *Sleep deprivation *Personality changes *Psychotic disorders. Fatigue, or emotional fatigue, comes mainly when actors “create dissonance between their actions and their actual feelings.”.〔Grandley, Alicia A. “When ‘The Show Must Go On’: Surface Acting As Determinants of Emotional Exhaustion and Peer-Rated Service Delivery.”〕 A mode of acting referred to as “surface acting” involves only changing one’s actions without altering the deeper thought processes. Method acting, when employed correctly, is mainly deep acting, or changing thoughts as well as actions, proven to generally avoid excessive fatigue. Surface acting is statistically “positively associated with a negative mood and this explains some of the association of surface acting with increased emotional exhaustion.” 〔Judge, Timothy A. “Is Emotional Labor More Difficult for Some than for Others? A Multi-level, Experience-sampling Study.”〕 This negative mood that is created leads to fear, anxiety, feelings of shame and sleep deprivation. Raw emotion or unresolved emotions conjured up for acting, may result in a sleep deprivation and the cyclical nature of the ensuing side effects. Sleep deprivation alone can lead to impaired function, causing some individuals to “acute episodes of psychosis.” Sleep deprivation initiates chemical changes in the brain that can lead to behavior similar to psychotic individuals.〔Hamden, Raymond. “Clinical and Forensic Psychology.”〕> These episodes can lead to more lasting psychological damage. In cases where raw emotion that has not been resolved, or traumas have been evoked before closure has been reached by the individual, the emotion can result in greater emotional instability and increased sense of anxiety, fear or shame.〔Konin, Elly A. “Acting Emotions: Shaping Emotions on Stage.”〕 The problem seen in method acting comes from the inability of actors to compartmentalize the emotions of the character from their own in daily life. Generally the actors who suffer personality changes and psychotic disorders already have some psychotic tendencies or are emotionally unstable. Those who have dissociative identity disorder “can’t recognize that the role isn’t theirs” and, even though these individuals appear normal, they have psychotic disorders that sometimes take months to identify.〔Hamden, Raymond. “Clinical and Forensic Psychology.”〕 Dissociative identity disorder is a chemically based disorder that results from “high stress and trauma.” What these individuals experience psychologically can further detriment their chemical and physiological makeup.〔Hamden, Raymond. “Clinical and Forensic Psychology.”〕 One factor that is rarely discussed when observing the emotional effects of method acting is that the individuals that practice method acting may already be emotionally unstable. Dr. Hamden notes that “many actors have had a traumatic life, () acting gives () the opportunity to be someone else.” 〔Hamden, Raymond. “Clinical and Forensic Psychology.”〕 These individuals are already emotionally unstable and so the effects of method acting are more severe for them. It is only a minority of people, about 32%, that will have extreme traumatic experiences.〔Hamden, Raymond. “Clinical and Forensic Psychology.”〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Psychological effects of method acting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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