
Handbook of Psychobiography
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I. How to Write a Psychobiography
- Chapter 1. Introducing Psychobiography
- Chapter 2. Evolving Conceptions of Psychobiography and the Study of Lives: Encounters With Psychoanalysis, Personality Psychology, and Historical Science
- Chapter 3. How to Strike Psychological Pay Dirt in Biographical Data
- Chapter 4. What Psychobiographers Might Learn From Personality Psychology
- Chapter 5. If the Glove Fits: The Art of Theoretical Choice in Psychobiography
- Chapter 6. How to Critically Evaluate Alternative Explanations of Life Events: The Case of Van Gogh's Ear
- Chapter 7. Divide and Multiply: Comparative Theory and Methodology in Multiple Case Psychobiography
- Chapter 8. Diane Arbus's Photographic Autobiography: Theory and Method Revisited
- Part II. Psychobiographies of Artists
- Chapter 9. Nothing Alive Can Be Calculated: The Psychobiographical Study of Artists
- Chapter 10. Twelve Ways to Say "Lonesome": Assessing Error and Control in the Music of Elvis Presley
- Chapter 11. Mourning, Melancholia, and Sylvia Plath
- Chapter 12. Margaret's Smile
- Chapter 13. Edith Wharton and Ethan Frome: A Psychobiographical Exploration
- Part III. Psychobiographies of Psychologists
- Chapter 14. The Psychobiographical Study of Psychologists
- Chapter 15. Freud as Leonardo: Why the First Psychobiography Went Wrong
- Chapter 16. Four, Two, or One? Gordon Allport and the Unique Personality
- Chapter 17. Nietzsche's Madness
- Chapter 18. Erikson and Psychobiography, Psychobiography and Erikson
- Chapter 19. From the Book of Mormon to the Operational Definition: The Existential Project of S.S. Stevens
- Part IV. Psychobiographies of Political Figures
- Chapter 20. Alive and Kicking: The Problematics of Political Psychobiography
- Chapter 21. Osama Bin Laden: The Sum of All Fears
- Chapter 22. In His Father's Shadow: George W. Bush and the Politics of Personal Transformation
- Chapter 23. Hunting the Snark: Methodological Considerations in Studying Elusive Politicians
- Chapter 24. Psychobiography in Context: Predicting the Behavior of Tyrants
- Index
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