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	Psychobiography: FAQ
		Psychobiography requires the adoption of a posture informed by the science of psychology.
		Psychobiography is case study research, so any approach to case study applies to psychobiography as well.
		Psychobiography, in contrast, is usually qualitative, not interested in reducing people to numbers; it tends to focus on unique individuals; and it believes in using the mind, using subjectivity, to understand the mind and human subjectivity.
	www.psychobiography.com /faq.html (1806 words)

	The Nation, 05/07/1977 - Psychobiography of Everyday Life by Noland, Richard W. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		...Psychobiography as life history rather than case history (though it must, of course, retain its ability to deal with varying degrees of ego stress as well as normaative, ; conflict-free 'ego functions) is a research tool of enormous potential...
		...Psychobiography, then, is not only subject to a number of dangers but also to certain limitations...
		...One of the unique values of good psychobiography is its almost fictional capacity to focus on the interaction between ego identity and social process...
	www.archive.thenation.com /Summaries/v224i0018_16.htm (2040 words)

	Richard Nixon; A Psychobiography; Vamik D. Volkan, Norman Itzkowitz, and Andrew W. Dod
		Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography is the first thoroughgoing psychological portrait of the 37th president, drawing upon telling interviews with Nixon intimates, published and archived materials, while employing a rigorous psychoanalytic methodology.
		Norman Itzkowitz is professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University and a member of the International Relations Division of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction at the University of Virginia.
		He is coauthor of The Immortal Atatürk: A Psychobiography.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023110/0231108559.HTM (612 words)

	Narrative Psychology: Personality, Psychobiography and Psychology of the Life Story
		This section deals with approaches to the study of personality and its development which are informed by intensive study of the individual life story over time.
		These approaches have been variously called "psychobiography," "biographical psychology," or "life story psychology." Individuals are studied across their lifespan from the perspective of the question: how can one understand their development psychologically?
		This approach has undergone scholarly development from the earlier basic work done by personality psychologists such as Henry Murray as well as other psychologists (e.g., Erikson) and historians using psychoanalytic tools by which to understand key individuals, e.g., Hitler and Gandhi among others.
	web.lemoyne.edu /~hevern/nr-pbiog.html (1479 words)

	Narrative Psychology: William McKinley Runyan (Theorists)
		This is William Todd Shultz's fascinating interview with Mac Runyan about his history, intellectual development, and his work and teaching in the field of psychobiography and personality psychology.
		Runyan, W. Psychobiography: Understanding one life at a time [Review of the book Uncovering lives: The uneasy alliance of biography and psychology].
		Runyan, W. Studying lives: Psychobiography and the conceptual structure of personality psychology.
	web.lemoyne.edu /~hevern/nr-theorists/runyan_william.html (443 words)

	Learn more about Psychohistory in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Why there is still such denial about the reality of child abuse.
		Psychobiography - which seeks to understand individual historical people and their motivations in history.
		Group Psychohistory - which seeks to understand the motivations of large groups in history.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/ps/psychohistory.html (762 words)

	HotWired: Head Space - Alan Elms Transcript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Elms: As usual in the sci-fi field, I started reading it at about age 12; got into psychology later; into psychobiography still later; began pursuing the life of Cordwainer Smith as interesting case study; then went on from there.
		over the weekend and found it fascinating, not just for the sci-fi connection but for your discussion of psychobiography in general, its methods uses and abuses, its potential and ethics.
		And you suggest a writer may grow through his working out of psychological situations through his fiction, instead of just hiding and repeating neuroses.
	webmonkey.wired.com /talk/club/special/transcripts/elms.html (1782 words)

	Books, Music, & Videos : Uncle Pete's Pirate Adventure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Psychobiography is often attacked by critics who feel that it trivializes 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.
		Elms makes a strong case for the value of psychobiography, arguing in large part from example.
		For example, Elms discusses the fiction of Isaac Asimov in light of the latter's acrophobia (fear of heights) and mild agoraphobia (fear of open spaces) - and Elms includes excerpts from a series of letters between himself and Asimov.
	www.ez-shopping.net /Books-Music-Videos/index63801.html (501 words)

	Psychobiography: What's New
		Her article on my Plath research and on psychobiography more generally is set to run on or around October 23, 2003.
		I was also interviewed last August, 2003, by the BBC for a jointly produced BBC/Discovery Channel documentary on the life of the notorious King Herod, who ordered the slaughter of the innocent children of Bethleham.
		Posted a description of the Handbook of Psychobiography (Oxford University Press), along with its initial list of contributors and their subjects (from Elvis to George W. Bush!).
	www.psychobiography.com /new.html (1774 words)

	OUP: Handbook of Psychobiography: Schultz
		Editor William Todd Schultz introduces the field, provides valuable definitions of good and bad psychobiography, discusses an optimal structure for psychobiographical essays, and offers a blueprint for striking psychological paydirt in biographical data.
		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.
	www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-516827-5 (830 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Darwinian Psychobiography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		These preliminary considerations raise the intriguing question of what psychobiography would be like if it had been developed by Darwin rather than by Sigmund Freud and his followers.
		It is to Bowlby's considerable credit that his psychobiography of Darwin, which places patterns of childhood attachment at the center of his narrative account, helps to illuminate precisely this exceptional aspect of Darwin's scientific style.
		This discussion brings me back to the contrast between psychobiography the Darwinian way and psychobiography done the way that Sigmund Freud and other psychoanalysts have typically tried to carry it out.
	www.sulloway.org /DarwinPsychobio.htm (4393 words)

	Printed Matter -- Alan Elms -- December 4, 1994
		An example of a good psychobiography is Doris Kearns Goodwin's ``LBJ and the American Dream.'' Bad would be Fawn Brodie on Richard Nixon or Nancy Clinch on the Kennedy family.
		Elms say a good psychobiography can rival the very best traditional biographies in the insights it offers Ï in fact, the best biographies today include psychobiographical elements.
		After all these years on the job, he says there are still professional drawbacks for those starting out in psychobiography.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /~gizmo/elmsa.html (772 words)

	Search Results for psychobiography - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Vamik D. Volkan and Norman Itzkowitz, The Immortal Atatürk (1984, reissued 1986), is a psychobiography.
		James L. Clifford, From Puzzles to Portraits: Problems of a Literary Biographer (1970), examples of the author's own research on biography followed by an analysis of biographical problems; Leon Edel,...
		A guide for the general reader is Paul M. Angle, A Shelf of Lincoln Books: A Critical, Selective Bibliography of Lincolniana (1946, reissued 1972).
	www.britannica.com /search?query=psychobiography&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (329 words)

	press
		By JENNIFER K. ANALYZE THIS: A new press will be devoted to precisely the kind of studies Dr. Post does, along with other psychological approaches to public affairs, both past and present.
		One of the first books from Pitchstone Press will be a psychobiography of Napoleon, by Avner Falk, an independent
		Talks are under way for a book analyzing the psychological makeup of figures who inspire blind loyalty, such as David Koresh and Osama bin Laden.
	www.pitchstonepublishing.com /press.htm (333 words)

	Reviews: Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith
		Fortunately, such a criticism cannot be leveled at Robert D. Anderson, MD, for his remarkable volume, Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith: Psychobiography and the Book of Mormon.
		Anderson, a senior psychiatrist, has adopted the purely naturalistic approach of the psychoanalytic school in producing a consistent and persuasive case that Smith suffered from narcissistic personality disorder.
		The impact of The Book of Mormon on the eternal welfare of many warrants a careful study of this text.
	www.signaturebooks.com /reviews/inside.htm (2334 words)

	Behavior OnLine Forums - Adlerian Psychobiography and Psychohistory - Adolf Hitler
		The disciplines of Adlerian psychobiography and psychohistory have not yet developed very far.
		I have not, myself, ever examined actual historical figures, but like other Adlerians I have looked at literary creations, and have written articles on Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot", Sartre's "Nausea", and Camus' "The Outsider" for the Canadian Journal of Adlerian Psychology.
		The Canadian Journal of Adlerian Psychology is, unfortunately, not available online, but I would strongly encourage people to both subscribe and contribute to it.
	www.behavior.net /bolforums/showthread.php?t=372 (972 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Life Histories and Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		"The one essential book in the field" In this pathbreaking study, Runyan reviews and responds to major criticism of psychobiography and of the case study method, and suggests criteria for evaluating and improving in-depth studies of individual lives.
		Theoretical points are vividly illustrated iwth examples from the lvies of (among others) Vincent Van Gogh, Emily Dickinson, Abraham Lincoln, Shakespeare, Malcolm X, Woodrow Wilson, Virginia Woolf, and several of Freud's classic case studies.
		It is both the ideal text for a graduate course in psycho-history and the one essential book in the field which every library should have."--The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0195034864 (278 words)

	Publications
		Volkan, V. and Itzkowitz, N. The Immortal Ataturk: A Psychobiography.
		Volkan, V., Itzkowitz, N., and Dod, A. Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography.
		Volkan, V. and Itzkowitz, N. (In translation) The Immortal Ataturk: A Psychobiography.
	www.healthsystem.virginia.edu /internet/csmhi/pubitzkowitz.cfm (245 words)

	Webguide - Internet Resources for Psychobiography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The main site about psychobiography in general is Jazwinski's, which contains lecture notes, and illustrates general principles with Freud's paper on Leonardo, perhaps the first example of psychobiography.
		If you have a writer or a poet or a musician or a politician in mind you will find something relevant, especially if they have American connections or are academically fashionable.
		This site offers a psychobiography, including details of her family history, her psychiatrists, and contemporary views of affective illness.
	www.rcpsych.ac.uk /info/webguide/psychobio.htm (395 words)

	Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith: Psychobiography and the Book of Mormon
		These views have all been colored, to some extent at least, by what Joseph Smith later became.
		Psychobiography, itself, can not help but be criticized.
		After reading Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith: Psychobiography and the Book of Mormon, you'll never read the Book of Mormon the way you used to again.
	www.lds-mormon.com /josephsmithmind.shtml (3576 words)

	Faculty of Health & Behavioural Sciences - Department of Psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		As a preliminary to a psychobiography of Mozart some brief surveys are needed:
		Of the literature of psychobiography; Of Mozart biographical literature; Of psychological studies of genius;
		The student would be involved as much as s/he wished.
	www.psyc.uow.edu.au /research/research_dev_scheme.html (407 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / The elusive George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The methods of psychobiography are severely challenged by these men.
		Ellis complains of the "interpretive dilemma posed by a man of action who seems determined to tell us what he did, but equally determined not to tell us what he thought about it." Altogether, the task of writing a psychobiography of Washington is a bit like climbing Mount Rushmore without a rope.
		Many scholars have tried to solve the riddle of Washington's psychological chemistry.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/10/24/the_elusive_george (528 words)

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		Gender Psychobiography Paper: One assumption underlying this course is that society constructs gender, which means that being male or female is defined by society in a particular way within a given place and time.
		To gain an appreciation of this, students should choose scholarly biographical and/or autobiographical materials about an eminent person in history and write an essay that integrates what they have learned with other course and/or supplementary readings on lifespan gender development.
		Procedure for Peer Review workshop for drafts of Psychobiography essays Prior to this workshop, please carefully read the two papers you are assigned and draft typewritten comments addressing the questions below.
	www.uky.edu /Education/EDP/edp604sp05ssr.doc (1940 words)

	RICHARD NIXON ON THE COUCH --- PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY
		Nixon: A Psychobiography reminds us of Nixon's many accomplishments on the foreign and domestic fronts, achievements that have been buried under the avalanche of tragic flaws that brought him down.
		And the accomplishments were many: facilitating "détente" with the Soviet Union, opening the door to communication with mainland China, promoting the passage of the Welfare Reform Act, ending the Vietnam war, and making major strides in desegregation.
		There is a danger, however, in dismissing worthy insights into Nixon's personality and behavior in Nixon: A Psychobiography as mere psychoanalytic bullshit.
	www.ralphmag.org /nixon.html (1260 words)

	International Society for Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		This is a continually updated selection of general online resources related to phenomenology, humanistic psychology, existential psychology, narrative psychology and psychobiography, philosophical counselling, and transpersonal psychology and somatics.
		Basic information on psychobiography—the intensive, detailed study of individuals (often famous or historical) using psychological theory/research in order to glean information about how the mind works (or how a particular mind works).
		Psychobiography differs from other approaches to the study of personality in that it is profoundly interested in the entire, unique individual, and not just in isolated variables (like general personality traits).
	www.existentialpsychology.org /isepp_links.htm (2545 words)

	Studies in Short Fiction: Poe's "The Black Cat" as psychobiography: some reflections on the narratological dynamics - ...
		Studies in Short Fiction: Poe's "The Black Cat" as psychobiography: some reflections on the narratological dynamics - Edgar Allan Poe - Critical Essay
		Before proceeding to the narratological dynamics of "The Black Cat," I would like to give a brief overview, describing some of Genette's concepts that will form the basis for my examination of the narratology as it relates to the psychobiography of the narrator of Poe's tale.
		Drawing on a notion addressed initially by Wayne Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction, that narrative, in contrast to dramatic depiction, is illusory because "no narrative can `show' or `imitate' the story it tells," Genette calls narrative the "illusion of mimesis" (164).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2455/is_2_35/ai_83585370 (1059 words)

	Career Advice Psychobiography Alan C. Elms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Anyone who's interested in pursuing a career in psychobiography, whether as a college professor or as an "independent scholar," is invited to send me an e-mail at acelms@ucdavis.edu.
		I no longer encourage potential psychobiographers to study with me, because I am on the verge of retirement from my academic position.
		But if you're really passionate about becoming a psychobiographer, I can give you some sense of career paths that might enable you to practice this worthy profession at least part-time.
	www.ulmus.net /ace/ref/pbcareer.cfm (182 words)

	Narrative Psychology:What Was New (Announcement Archive) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The date following the author name should be checked against the month of the last update of that subpage and adjusted accordingly.
		Renamed the "Psychobiography and Biographical Psychology" subpage as
		Personality, Psychobiography, and Psychology of the Life Story" in order to emphasize the importance of contemporary narrative appraoches to the study of personality (e.g., the work of Dan McAdams).
	webserver.lemoyne.edu /~hevern/whatwasnew.html (1043 words)

	William M. Runyan
		The study of life histories and case histories; the history of psychoanalysis and of personality psychology; adult development; psychobiography; history and philosophy of social science.
		Runyan, W.M. Studying Lives: Psychobiography and The Conceptual Structure Of Personality Psychology, In R. Hogan, et al.
		Runyan, W.M. Life Histories and Psychobiography, Oxford University Press.
	socialwelfare.berkeley.edu /faculty/runyan.htm (106 words)

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