The drama of everyday life book read reviews from worlds largest community for readers psychologists says the old joke know everything there is to k. Writing with elegance and passion scheibe asks us to take note of the self representation performance and scripts of the drama that is our everyday life in doing so he challenges our dispirited senses and awakens psychology to a new realm of dramatic possibility. Everyday life presents the dramaturgical approach to psychology one which identifies the writhing force which struggles to exalt our lives from mundane to magical both a psychotherapist in private practice and a professor at wesleyan university scheibe calls for a form of quotidian psychology one which lowers the mask of traditional psychology to reveal the faces of the players beneath and study the scripts of their commonplace lives in order to comprehend the drama life affords. By infusing the theories of countless figures within the field of psychology the drama of everyday life exudes an inherent value for students while its winning literary style offers universal appeal immune to the cyclic bowing out of each weary actor drama endures swirling in the footlights which never dim beneath the curtain which shall not fall. The drama of everyday life by scheibe karl e psychologists says the old joke know everything there is to know about the college sophomore and the white rat but what about the rest of us older than the former bigger than the latter with lives more labyrinthine than either in this ambitious book karl e scheibe aims to take psychology out of its rut and bring it into contact with the