Deep Drama

Exploring Life as Theater

Karl E. Scheibe

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9783319629858
• eBook ISBN: 9783319629865
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Personality in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• List of Figures
• 1: Profound Drama
• 2: The Person as Actor, the Actor as Person: Personality from a Dramaturgical Perspective
• 3: The Drama of the Scientific Life
• 4: Reflections on the Drama of Shame and Guilt
• 5: The Drama of Fear
• 6: Paradoxes of Well-being: A Dramatic Analysis
• 7: Narratives of Addiction
• 8: On the Psychological Absurdity of a War on Terror
• 9: Three Modes of Human Aggression, Plus Pure Evil
• 10: The Use of Dramatic Metaphor in Kahneman’s Psychology
• 11: Rejection
• 12: Wisdom from Hamilton
• References
• Index