04179nam 22006614a 450 991045213340332120200520144314.01-280-84087-00-19-803760-01-4294-2096-0(CKB)1000000000468233(EBL)281371(OCoLC)476026294(SSID)ssj0000168174(PQKBManifestationID)11149644(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000168174(PQKBWorkID)10193083(PQKB)10787687(MiAaPQ)EBC281371(Au-PeEL)EBL281371(CaPaEBR)ebr10271629(CaONFJC)MIL84087(EXLCZ)99100000000046823320040601d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrHandbook of psychobiography[electronic resource] /edited by William Todd SchultzOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20051 online resource (393 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-516827-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 EarChapter 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; Chapter 14. The Psychobiographical Study of PsychologistsChapter 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 TransformationChapter 23. Hunting the Snark: Methodological Considerations in Studying Elusive Politicians Chapter 24. Psychobiography in Context: Predicting the Behavior of Tyrants; Index;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.PsychologyBiographical methodsArtistsPsychologyCase studiesPoliticiansPsychologyCase studiesPsychologistsPsychologyCase studiesElectronic books.PsychologyBiographical methods.ArtistsPsychologyPoliticiansPsychologyPsychologistsPsychology150/.72/2Schultz William Todd930131MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452133403321Handbook of psychobiography2240116UNINA