William Todd Schultz

Handbook of Psychobiography

Herausgeber: Schultz, William Todd

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Produktbeschreibung

Stevens, Erik Erikson, Edith Wharton, Saddam Hussein, Truman Capote, Kathryn Harrison, Jack Kerouac, and others. Within each case study, tips are proffered along the way as to how psychobiography can be done more cogently, more intelligently, and more valuably. With its combination of telling about and showing how to practice psychobiography wisely, its inclusion of most of the field's leading practitioners, and its diversity of subjects, "The Handbook of Psychobiography" represents the best the field has to offer. It will define the discipline, set a course for effective future developments, and quickly emerge as a must-read for any beginning or serious psychobiographer, narrative psychologist, personologist or personality researcher.

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This exceptionally readable and down-to-earth handbook is destined to become the definitive guide to psychobiological research, the application of psychological theory and research to individual lives of historical importance. It brings together for the first time the world's leading psychobiographers, writing lucidly on many of the major figures of our age - from Osama Bin Laden to Elvis Presley.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 265mm x 187mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 917g
• ISBN-13: 9780195168273
• ISBN-10: 0195168275
• Artikelnr.: 21033206

Autorenporträt

William Todd Schultz, Associate Professor of Psychology, Pacific University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

* Part 1: How to write a psychobiography
* 1: Introducing psychobiography
* 2: Evolving conceptions of psychobiography and the study of lives:
Encounters with psychoanalysis, personality psychology, and
historical science
* 3: How to strike psychological paydirt in biographical data
* 4: What psychobiographers might learn from personality psychology
* 5: If the glove fits: The art of theoretical choice in
psychobiography
* 6: How to critically evaluate alternative explanations of life
events: The case of Van Gogh's ear
* 7: Divide and multiply: Comparative theory and methodology in
multiple case psychobiology
* 8: Diane Arbus' photographic autobiography: Theory and method
revisited
* Part 2: Psychobiography of Artists
* 9: Nothing alive can be calculated: The psychobiographical study of
artists
* 10: Twelve ways to say 'lonesome': Assessing error and control in the
music of Elvis Presley
* 11: Mourning, melancholia, and Sylvia Plath
* 12: Margaret's smile
* 13: Edith Wharton and Ethan Frome: A psychobiographical exploration
* Part Three: Psychobiography of Psychologists
* 14: The psychobiographical study of psychologists
* 15: Freud as Leonardo: Why the first psychobiography went wrong
* 16: Four, two or one? Gordon Allport and the unique personality
* 17: Nietzsche's Madness
* 18: Erikson and psychobiography, psychobiography and Erikson
* 19: From the book of Mormon to the operational definition: The
existential project of S.S. Stevens
* Part Four: Psychobiography of Political Figures
* 20: Alive and kicking: The problematics of political psychobiography
* 21: Osama Bin Laden: The sum of all fears
* 22: In his father's shadow: George W Bush and the politics of
personal transformation
* 23: Hunting the Snark: Methodlogical Considerations in Studying
Elusive Politicians
* 24: Psychobiography in context: Predicting the behaviour of tyrants