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Uncovering lives : the uneasy alliance of biography and psychology / Alan C. Elms.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 315 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585332134
  • 9780585332130
  • 128045394X
  • 9781280453946
  • 9786610453948
  • 6610453942
  • 9780195354331
  • 0195354338
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Uncovering lives.DDC classification:
  • 920/.001/9 20
LOC classification:
  • BF39.4 .E46 1994eb
NLM classification:
  • 1995 K-754
  • WZ 313
Other classification:
  • 77.04
Online resources:
Contents:
The psychologist as biographer -- Starting from scratch -- Freud as Leonardo -- The auntification of C.G. Jung -- Allport meets Freud and the clean little boy -- Skinner's dark year and Walden two -- The thing from inner space: John W. Campbell, Robert E. Howard, and Cordwainer Smith -- Darker than he thought: the psychoanalysis of Jack Williamson -- Asimov as acrophobe -- The mother of Oz: L. Frand Baum -- Nabokov contra Freud -- Carter and character -- The counterplayers: George Bush and Saddam Hussein -- From Colonel House to General Haig -- Going beyond scratch.
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Summary: Psychobiography is often attacked by critics who feel that it trivialises 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." And yet, as Alan Elms argues in Uncovering Lives, in the hands of a skilled practitioner, psychobiography can rival the very best traditional biography in the insights it offers.; Elms makes a strong case for the value of psychobiography, arguing in large part from his own fascinating case studies of over a dozen prominent figures, including George Bush, Saddam Hussein, and Sigmund Freud.; Written with great clarity and wit, Uncovering Lives illuminates the contributions that psychology can make to biography. Elm'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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303) and index.

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Psychobiography is often attacked by critics who feel that it trivialises 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." And yet, as Alan Elms argues in Uncovering Lives, in the hands of a skilled practitioner, psychobiography can rival the very best traditional biography in the insights it offers.; Elms makes a strong case for the value of psychobiography, arguing in large part from his own fascinating case studies of over a dozen prominent figures, including George Bush, Saddam Hussein, and Sigmund Freud.; Written with great clarity and wit, Uncovering Lives illuminates the contributions that psychology can make to biography. Elm's enthusiasm for his subject is contagious and will inspire would-be psychobiographers as well as win over the most hardened skeptics.

The psychologist as biographer -- Starting from scratch -- Freud as Leonardo -- The auntification of C.G. Jung -- Allport meets Freud and the clean little boy -- Skinner's dark year and Walden two -- The thing from inner space: John W. Campbell, Robert E. Howard, and Cordwainer Smith -- Darker than he thought: the psychoanalysis of Jack Williamson -- Asimov as acrophobe -- The mother of Oz: L. Frand Baum -- Nabokov contra Freud -- Carter and character -- The counterplayers: George Bush and Saddam Hussein -- From Colonel House to General Haig -- Going beyond scratch.

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