Uncovering lives : the uneasy alliance of biography and psychology /

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Psychobiography is often attacked by critics who feel that it trivialises complex adult personalities, "explaining the large deeds of great individuals," as George Will wrote, "by some slight the individual suffered at a tender age, say seven, when his mother took away a lollipop.&quo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elms, Alan C., 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Temas:
Psychology > Biographical methods.
Biography as a literary form.
Psychologists > Psychology > Case studies.
Politicians > Psychology > Case studies.
Authors > Psychology > Case studies.
Celebrities.
Biography.
Famous Persons
Biographies as Topic
Psychological Theory
Psychologie > Histoires de vie.
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
Psychologues > Psychologie > Études de cas.
Politiciens > Psychologie > Études de cas.
Écrivains > Psychologie > Études de cas.
Célébrités.
Biographies.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Reference.
Celebrities
Authors > Psychology
Biography as a literary form
Politicians > Psychology
Psychologists > Psychology
Psychology > Biographical methods
Biografieforschung
Psychologie
Biografie
Biografische methode.
Psychologie.
Interpretatieve methode.
histoire de vie > psychologie.
biographie > psychologie > étude de cas.
Biography
Electronic book.
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The psychologist as biographer
  • Starting from scratch
  • Freud as Leonardo
  • The auntification of C.G. Jung
  • Allport meets Freud and the clean little boy
  • Skinner's dark year and Walden two
  • The thing from inner space: John W. Campbell, Robert E. Howard, and Cordwainer Smith
  • Darker than he thought: the psychoanalysis of Jack Williamson
  • Asimov as acrophobe
  • The mother of Oz: L. Frand Baum
  • Nabokov contra Freud
  • Carter and character
  • The counterplayers: George Bush and Saddam Hussein
  • From Colonel House to General Haig
  • Going beyond scratch.

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