Deep Drama: Exploring Life as Theater

Description

This book applies a dramaturgical perspective to familiar psychological topics including fear, greed, shame, guilt, rejection, well-being and terrorism. In presenting vivid illustrations of how our understanding of psychological problems can be enriched and enlivened by employing dramatic language and concepts, it brings the well-established field of narrative psychology to life. Providing an accessible and fresh understanding of psychological problems through the language and concepts of theatre, Karl Scheibe builds on the work of leading scholars in the field including Sarbin, Gergen, Bruner and Goffman. This exciting and accessible book acts as a sequel to Scheibe's, The Drama of Everyday Life, and will appeal to students and scholars of narrative and social psychology, theatre studies and the studies of self and identity. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Profound Drama (Karl E. Scheibe)....Pages 1-20 The Person as Actor, the Actor as Person: Personality from a Dramaturgical Perspective (Karl E. Scheibe)....Pages 21-33 The Drama of the Scientific Life (Karl E. Scheibe)....Pages 35-52 Reflections on the Drama of Shame and Guilt (Karl E. Scheibe)....Pages 53-74 The Drama of Fear (Karl E. Scheibe)....Pages 75-96 Paradoxes of Well-being: A Dramatic Analysis (Karl E. Scheibe)....Pages 97-112 Narratives of Addiction (Karl E. Scheibe)....Pages 113-124 On the Psychological Absurdity of a War on Terror (Karl E. Scheibe)....Pages 125-143 Three Modes of Human Aggression, Plus Pure Evil (Karl E. Scheibe)....Pages 145-158 The Use of Dramatic Metaphor in Kahneman’s Psychology (Karl E. Scheibe)....Pages 159-168 Rejection (Karl E. Scheibe)....Pages 169-178 Wisdom from Hamilton (Karl E. Scheibe)....Pages 179-196 Back Matter ....Pages 197-215