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“Acting out” means that a person does things against himself or others instead of expressing whatever feelings he is blocking.
“Comedy is acting out optimism.”
Robin Williams
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Berman, C.W. (2016). Acting Out Instead of Feeling. In: Surviving Dementia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35102-5_8
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