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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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Psychologists, Psychology, Authors, Politicians, Case studies, Biography as a literary form, Biographical methods, Biografie, Étude de cas, Famous Persons, Biographie, Psychologie, Biografische methode, Histoire de vie, Psychological Theory, Interpretatieve methode, Biografieforschung, Biographies as Topic, Psychology, biographical methods, Authors, psychologyEdition | Availability |
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Uncovering Lives: The Uneasy Alliance of Biography and Psychology
April 7, 1997, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
0195113799 9780195113792
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Uncovering lives: the uneasy alliance of biography and psychology
1994, Oxford University Press
in English
0195082877 9780195082876
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