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the uneasy alliance of biography and psychology

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An edition of Uncovering lives (1994)

Uncovering lives

the uneasy alliance of biography and psychology

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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." Worse yet, some writers have clearly abused psychobiography - for instance, to grind axes from the right (Nancy Clinch on the Kennedy family) or from the left (Fawn Brodie on Richard Nixon) - and others have offered woefully inept diagnoses (such as Albert Goldman's portrait of Elvis Presley as a "split personality" and a "delusional paranoid").

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English
Pages
315

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Cover of: Uncovering Lives
Uncovering Lives: The Uneasy Alliance of Biography and Psychology
April 7, 1997, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: Uncovering lives
Uncovering lives: the uneasy alliance of biography and psychology
1994, Oxford University Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-303) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
920/.001/9
Library of Congress
BF39.4 .E46 1994, BF39.4.E46 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 315 p. ;
Number of pages
315

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1092370M
Internet Archive
uncoveringlivesu00elms
ISBN 10
0195082877
LCCN
94016699
OCLC/WorldCat
30476830
Library Thing
1963081
Goodreads
1833966

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