Jean-Francois Jacques PhD is an independent dramatherapist, clinical supervisor and researcher. He is also the creative director of the Theatre of Lived Experience. His current areas of research are intersubjectivity, otherness, aesthetics, embodiment and spectatorship. He is published in the field of dramatherapy and has presented at conferences nationally and internationally. Recent publications include a paper ‘Investigation into the Production of Meaning in Autobiographical Performance in Dramatherapy’ in The Arts in Psychotherapy (2020), a chapter on ‘Otherness and Meaning in Performance’ in the edited volume Cultural Landscapes in the Arts Therapies (University of Plymouth Press, 2017), and a chapter on ‘Intersubjectivity in Autobiographical Performance in Dramatherapy’ in the edited volume on The Self in Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).