LEADER 04179nam 22006614a 450 001 9910452133403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-84087-0 010 $a0-19-803760-0 010 $a1-4294-2096-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000468233 035 $a(EBL)281371 035 $a(OCoLC)476026294 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000168174 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11149644 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000168174 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10193083 035 $a(PQKB)10787687 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC281371 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL281371 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10271629 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL84087 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000468233 100 $a20040601d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aHandbook of psychobiography$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by William Todd Schultz 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (393 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-516827-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aChapter 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 Psychologists 327 $aChapter 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 327 $aChapter 23. Hunting the Snark: Methodological Considerations in Studying Elusive Politicians Chapter 24. Psychobiography in Context: Predicting the Behavior of Tyrants; Index; 330 $aBrings 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. 606 $aPsychology$xBiographical methods 606 $aArtists$xPsychology$vCase studies 606 $aPoliticians$xPsychology$vCase studies 606 $aPsychologists$xPsychology$vCase studies 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPsychology$xBiographical methods. 615 0$aArtists$xPsychology 615 0$aPoliticians$xPsychology 615 0$aPsychologists$xPsychology 676 $a150/.72/2 701 $aSchultz$b William Todd$0930131 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452133403321 996 $aHandbook of psychobiography$92240116 997 $aUNINA