Handbook of psychobiography /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schultz, William Todd
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
Temas:
Psychology > Biographical methods.
Artists > Psychology > Case studies.
Politicians > Psychology > Case studies.
Psychologists > Psychology > Case studies.
Psychology.
Celebrities.
Biography
Psychology
Famous Persons
Psychologie > Histoires de vie.
Artistes > Psychologie > Études de cas.
Politiciens > Psychologie > Études de cas.
Psychologues > Psychologie > Études de cas.
Psychologie.
Célébrités.
psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Research & Methodology.
Celebrities
Artists > Psychology
Politicians > Psychology
Psychologists > Psychology
Psychology > Biographical methods
Biografische methode.
Case Reports
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. How to write a psychobiography. Introducing psychobiography / William Todd Schultz
  • Evolving conceptions of psychobiography and the study of lives: encounters with psychoanalysis, personality psychology, and historical science / William M. Runyan
  • How to strike psychological pay dirt in biographical data / William Todd Schultz
  • What psychobiographers might learn from personality psychology / Dan P. McAdams
  • If the glove fits: the art of theoretical choice in psychobiography / Alan C. Elms
  • How to critically evaluate alternative explanations of life events: the case of Van Gogh's ear / William M. Runyan
  • Divide and multiply: comparative theory and methodology in multiple case psychobiography / Kate Isaacson
  • Diane Arbus's photographic autobiography: theory and method revisited / William Todd Schultz
  • pt. II. Psychobiographies of artists. Nothing alive can be calculated: the psychobiographical study of artists / William Todd Schultz
  • Twelve ways to say "lonesome": assessing error and control in the music of Elvis Presley / Alan C. Elms, Bruce Heller
  • Mourning, melancholia, and Sylvia Plath / William Todd Schultz
  • Margaret's smile / Daniel M. Ogilvie
  • Edith Wharton and Ethan Frome: a psychobiographical exploration / James William Anderson
  • pt. III. Psychobiographies of psychologists. The psychobiographical study of psychologists / James William Anderson
  • Freud as Leonardo: why the first psychobiography went wrong / Alan C. Elms
  • Four, two, or one? Gordon Allport and the unique personality / Nicole B. Barenbaum
  • Nietzsche's madness / Kyle Arnold, George Atwood
  • Erikson and psychobiography, psychobiography and Erikson / Irving Alexander
  • From the Book of Mormon to the operational definition: the existential project of S.S. Stevens / Ian Nicholson
  • pt. IV. Psychobiographies of political figures. Alive and kicking: the problematics of political psychobiography / Alan C. Elms, Anna V. Song
  • Osama Bin Laden: the sum of all fears / Anthony J. Dennis
  • In his father's shadow: George W. Bush and the politics of personal transformation / Stanley A. Renshon
  • Hunting the snark: methodological considerations in studying elusive politicians / Anna V. Song
  • Psychobiography in context: predicting the behavior of tyrants / Betty Glad.

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