Handbook of psychobiography

pt. I. How to write a psychobiography. Introducing psychobiography / William Todd Schultz

Evolving conceptions of psychobiography and the study of lives: encounters with psychoanalysis, personality psychology, and historical science / William M. Runyan

How to strike psychological pay dirt in biographical data / William Todd Schultz

What psychobiographers might learn from personality psychology / Dan P. McAdams

If the glove fits: the art of theoretical choice in psychobiography / Alan C. Elms

How to critically evaluate alternative explanations of life events: the case of Van Gogh's ear / William M. Runyan

Divide and multiply: comparative theory and methodology in multiple case psychobiography / Kate Isaacson

Diane Arbus's photographic autobiography: theory and method revisited / William Todd Schultz

pt. II. Psychobiographies of artists. Nothing alive can be calculated: the psychobiographical study of artists / William Todd Schultz

Twelve ways to say "lonesome": assessing error and control in the music of Elvis Presley / Alan C. Elms, Bruce Heller

Mourning, melancholia, and Sylvia Plath / William Todd Schultz

Margaret's smile / Daniel M. Ogilvie

Edith Wharton and Ethan Frome: a psychobiographical exploration / James William Anderson

pt. III. Psychobiographies of psychologists. The psychobiographical study of psychologists / James William Anderson

Freud as Leonardo: why the first psychobiography went wrong / Alan C. Elms

Four, two, or one? Gordon Allport and the unique personality / Nicole B. Barenbaum

Nietzsche's madness / Kyle Arnold, George Atwood

Erikson and psychobiography, psychobiography and Erikson / Irving Alexander

From the Book of Mormon to the operational definition: the existential project of S.S. Stevens / Ian Nicholson

pt. IV. Psychobiographies of political figures. Alive and kicking: the problematics of political psychobiography / Alan C. Elms, Anna V. Song

Osama Bin Laden: the sum of all fears / Anthony J. Dennis

In his father's shadow: George W. Bush and the politics of personal transformation / Stanley A. Renshon

Hunting the snark: methodological considerations in studying elusive politicians / Anna V. Song

Psychobiography in context: predicting the behavior of tyrants / Betty Glad.