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Titolo |
Handbook of psychobiography [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William Todd Schultz |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-84087-0 |
0-19-803760-0 |
1-4294-2096-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Psychology - Biographical methods |
Artists - Psychology |
Politicians - Psychology |
Psychologists - Psychology |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Contributors; 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; 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 Psychobiog raphical Exploration; |
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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; 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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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