The Me I See: Acting, Participating, Observing, and Viewing and Their Implications for Videofeedback

Abstract

Videofeedback is compared with daily experience in order to clarify the insight that this medium can give. The theoreticalframework which resulted is specifically related to the video experience rather than assimilating it into concepts designed to cope with other problems. Essentially, a viewer is seen as being similar to an actor in terms of access to memories and similar to an observer in terms of direct access to behavioral evidence, but should not be equated with either. Implications for therapy and training are discussed.