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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
