Alan C. Elms

Uncovering Lives

The Uneasy Alliance of Biography and Psychology

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Produktbeschreibung

Written with great clarity and wit, Uncovering Lives illuminates the contributions that psychology can make to biography. Elms's enthusiasm for his subject is contagious and will inspire would-be psychobiographers as well as win over the most hardened skeptics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780195113792
• ISBN-10: 0195113799
• Artikelnr.: 21370000

Autorenporträt

Alan C. Elms is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Personality in Politics and other books, as well as many articles in popular magazines and professional journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One Why Psychobiography?
1.: The Psychologist as Biographer
2.: Starting from Scratch
Part Two The Heart of the Theorist
3.: Freud as Leonardo
4.: The Auntification of C. G. Jung
5.: Allport Meets Freud and the Clean Little Boy
6.: Skinner's Dark Year and Walden Two
Part Three Into the Fantastic
7.: The Thing from Inner Space: John W. Campbell
8.: Darker Than He Thought: The Psychoanalysis of Jack Williamson
9.: Asimov as Acrophobe
10.: The Mothr of Oz: L. Frank Baum
11.: Nabokov Contra Freud
Part Four Beneath Politics
12.: Carter and Character
13.: The Counterplayers: George Bush and Saddam Hussein
14.: From Colonel House to General Haig
Part Five Other Methods, Other Lives
15.: Going Beyond Scratch
Notes
Bibliography
Index