Handbook of psychobiography / edited by William Todd Schultz.
2005
BF39.4 .H36 2005eb
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Title
Handbook of psychobiography / edited by William Todd Schultz.
ISBN
9780198037606 (electronic bk.)
0198037600 (electronic bk.)
1429420960
9781429420969
9780195168273
0195168275
9786610840878
6610840873
1280840870
9781280840876
0195168275 (Cloth)
0198037600 (electronic bk.)
1429420960
9781429420969
9780195168273
0195168275
9786610840878
6610840873
1280840870
9781280840876
0195168275 (Cloth)
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xi, 380 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
BF39.4 .H36 2005eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)76942344
Summary
Brings together the world's leading psychobiographers, writing on many of the major figures of our age - from Osama Bin Laden to Elvis Presley. This book addresses the subject of how to construct a psychobiography. It provides useful definitions of good and bad psychobiography, and discusses an optimal structure for psychobiographical essays.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
pt. I. How to write a psychobiography. Introducing psychobiography / William Todd Schultz
Evolving conceptions of psychobiography and the study of lives: encounters with psychoanalysis, personality psychology, and historical science / William M. Runyan
How to strike psychological pay dirt in biographical data / William Todd Schultz
What psychobiographers might learn from personality psychology / Dan P. McAdams
If the glove fits: the art of theoretical choice in psychobiography / Alan C. Elms
How to critically evaluate alternative explanations of life events: the case of Van Gogh's ear / William M. Runyan
Divide and multiply: comparative theory and methodology in multiple case psychobiography / Kate Isaacson
Diane Arbus's photographic autobiography: theory and method revisited / William Todd Schultz
pt. II. Psychobiographies of artists. Nothing alive can be calculated: the psychobiographical study of artists / William Todd Schultz
Twelve ways to say "lonesome": assessing error and control in the music of Elvis Presley / Alan C. Elms, Bruce Heller
Mourning, melancholia, and Sylvia Plath / William Todd Schultz
Margaret's smile / Daniel M. Ogilvie
Edith Wharton and Ethan Frome: a psychobiographical exploration / James William Anderson
pt. III. Psychobiographies of psychologists. The psychobiographical study of psychologists / James William Anderson
Freud as Leonardo: why the first psychobiography went wrong / Alan C. Elms
Four, two, or one? Gordon Allport and the unique personality / Nicole B. Barenbaum
Nietzsche's madness / Kyle Arnold, George Atwood
Erikson and psychobiography, psychobiography and Erikson / Irving Alexander
From the Book of Mormon to the operational definition: the existential project of S.S. Stevens / Ian Nicholson
pt. IV. Psychobiographies of political figures. Alive and kicking: the problematics of political psychobiography / Alan C. Elms, Anna V. Song
Osama Bin Laden: the sum of all fears / Anthony J. Dennis
In his father's shadow: George W. Bush and the politics of personal transformation / Stanley A. Renshon
Hunting the snark: methodological considerations in studying elusive politicians / Anna V. Song
Psychobiography in context: predicting the behavior of tyrants / Betty Glad.
Evolving conceptions of psychobiography and the study of lives: encounters with psychoanalysis, personality psychology, and historical science / William M. Runyan
How to strike psychological pay dirt in biographical data / William Todd Schultz
What psychobiographers might learn from personality psychology / Dan P. McAdams
If the glove fits: the art of theoretical choice in psychobiography / Alan C. Elms
How to critically evaluate alternative explanations of life events: the case of Van Gogh's ear / William M. Runyan
Divide and multiply: comparative theory and methodology in multiple case psychobiography / Kate Isaacson
Diane Arbus's photographic autobiography: theory and method revisited / William Todd Schultz
pt. II. Psychobiographies of artists. Nothing alive can be calculated: the psychobiographical study of artists / William Todd Schultz
Twelve ways to say "lonesome": assessing error and control in the music of Elvis Presley / Alan C. Elms, Bruce Heller
Mourning, melancholia, and Sylvia Plath / William Todd Schultz
Margaret's smile / Daniel M. Ogilvie
Edith Wharton and Ethan Frome: a psychobiographical exploration / James William Anderson
pt. III. Psychobiographies of psychologists. The psychobiographical study of psychologists / James William Anderson
Freud as Leonardo: why the first psychobiography went wrong / Alan C. Elms
Four, two, or one? Gordon Allport and the unique personality / Nicole B. Barenbaum
Nietzsche's madness / Kyle Arnold, George Atwood
Erikson and psychobiography, psychobiography and Erikson / Irving Alexander
From the Book of Mormon to the operational definition: the existential project of S.S. Stevens / Ian Nicholson
pt. IV. Psychobiographies of political figures. Alive and kicking: the problematics of political psychobiography / Alan C. Elms, Anna V. Song
Osama Bin Laden: the sum of all fears / Anthony J. Dennis
In his father's shadow: George W. Bush and the politics of personal transformation / Stanley A. Renshon
Hunting the snark: methodological considerations in studying elusive politicians / Anna V. Song
Psychobiography in context: predicting the behavior of tyrants / Betty Glad.
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