Handbook of psychobiography [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William Todd Schultz

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Disciplina: 150/.72/2
• Soggetto topico: Psychology - Biographical methods; Artists - Psychology; Politicians - Psychology; Psychologists - Psychology
• Altri autori: SchultzWilliam Todd
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Handbook of psychobiography
• ISBN: 0-19-773566-5; 1-280-84087-0; 0-19-803760-0; 1-4294-2096-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777794903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II