Psychotechnique (A portmanteau of ''psychological technique'') forms part of the 'system' of actor training, preparation, and rehearsal developed by the Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski. It describes the inner, psychological elements of training that support what he called "experiencing" a role in performance. In a rehearsal process, psychotechnique is interrelated with the "embodiment" of the role, in order to achieve a fully realised characterisation. Stanislavski describes the elements of psychotechnique in the first part of his manual ''An Actor's Work''.

List

*RelaxationFrom Stanislavsky's book 'An Actor Prepares, and A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method of author, actor and acting teacher Lee Strasberg (Page 59 of the original version of the book). *Concentration on an object * The "As ''if''" (Also called "What ''if"'' or "Magic 'if''") * Affective memory (Also called "Emotional memory", or divided by Maria Ouspenskaya teaching in ''Analytical memory'' and the ''Memory of real feeling''From A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method of author, actor and acting teacher Lee Strasberg. Page 69 of the original version of the book.)

References

* Carnicke, Sharon M. 1998. ''Stanislavsky in Focus''. Russian Theatre Archive Ser. London: Harwood Academic Publishers. . * Carnicke, Sharon M. 2000. "Stanislavsky's System: Pathways for the Actor". In Hodge (2000, 11–36). * Hodge, Alison, ed. 2000. ''Twentieth-Century Actor Training''. London and New York: Routledge. . * Stanislavski, Konstantin. 1938. ''An Actor's Work: A Student's Diary''. Trans. and ed. Jean Benedetti. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. . {{Stanislavski system Acting techniques