New Trends in Psychobiography [electronic resource] /
Mayer, Claude-Hélène.editor.
Kovary, Zoltan.editor.
This volume offers insights into contemporary trends and perspectives in psychobiographical research. It applys new theoretical and methodological frameworks and presents discourses on psychobiography from transdisciplinary backgrounds and various socio-cultural contexts, displaying the new state-of-the-art, new trends and themes in psychobiography. The book outlines psychobiography’s outstanding contribution to psychology from 36 internationally reputable authors. It also presents the ideas of five outstanding psychobiographers through interview excerpts. This book is a must for researchers, lecturers and practitioners in the field of psychology and social sciences interested in the use of new psychological theories and methodologies in life-span research.
This volume offers insights into contemporary trends and perspectives in psychobiographical research. It applys new theoretical and methodological frameworks and presents discourses on psychobiography from transdisciplinary backgrounds and various socio-cultural contexts, displaying the new state-of-the-art, new trends and themes in psychobiography. The book outlines psychobiography’s outstanding contribution to psychology from 36 internationally reputable authors. It also presents the ideas of five outstanding psychobiographers through interview excerpts. This book is a must for researchers, lecturers and practitioners in the field of psychology and social sciences interested in the use of new psychological theories and methodologies in life-span research.
Chapter 1. Introduction (Claude-Hélène Mayer) -- Part 1: Theoretical, methodological and conceptual approaches in psychobiography -- Chapter 2. Executing Psychobiography (James William Anderson) -- Chapter 3. Psychobiography and “psychology as a rigorous science”. Explorations in epistemology, clinical practice and university education (Zoltan Kovary) -- Chapter 4. Systems Psychodynamics in Psychobiography: The individual within the (unconscious) systems' dynamics (Claude-Hélène Mayer) -- Chapter 5. Old wine in new skins? Psychobiography and Positive Psychology (Claude-Hélène Mayer) -- Chapter 6. Suitability Indicators in the Study of Great Lives: Guidelines for the Selection of the Psychobiographical Subject (Barbara Burnell) -- Chapter 7. Distinction between high resolution and low resolution psychobiography (Ágnes Bálint) -- Chapter 8. Abstractions of truth (Robert F. Mullen) -- Chapter 9. An Ethics Guide to Psychobiography. Trends in Best Practice (Joseph G. Ponterotto) -- Chapter 10. Aspects of Political Psychobiography (Reprint) (Avner Falk) -- Part 2: Psychobiographies on selected individuals -- Chapter 11. Psychological reflections on the build-up to the first heart transplant (Roelf van Niekerk) -- Chapter 12. Amor fati or posttraumatic growth? The case of Etty Hillesum in the time of the Holocaust (Márta Csabai) -- Chapter 13. Jack Kerouac (William Todd Schultz) -- Chapter 14. Goethe's path to creativity - A psychobiography (Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla) -- Chapter 15. Jean Paul Sartre's psychosocial identity development - A psychobiographical perspective (Tatjana Müller) -- Chapter 16. Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche – The contradictory nature of the Self in a dream of Raskolnikov and in the breakdown of Nietzsche (Tamás Témyi) -- Chapter 17. Constructing "Georgia": Love, play, work as a central theme in O'Keefee's early and late memories (Athena Androutsopoulou) -- Chapter 18. A Psychobiographical Portrait of Adam Small’s Eriksonian Ego-strengths or Virtues: Contextualized within South Africa’s Pre-, Middle- and Post-Apartheid eras (Paul J.P. Fouché) -- Chapter 19. Time, Death, Eternity: Imagining the soul of Johann Sebastian Bach (George Atwood) -- Chapter 20. The amazing life of Charlize Theron (Tracey Prenter) -- Chapter 21. Dr Donald and Mr Trump. A study in political psychopathology (Avner Falk) -- Chapter 22. A reflection on the psychosocial-historical turning points in the life of Sol Plaatje: Co- founder of the African National Congress (Crystal Welman) -- Chapter 23. L. Ron Hubbard and Jim Jones: Narrative Identity in the Lives of Two Controversial Religious Leaders (James Kelley) -- Chapter 24. The use of unusual psychological theories in psychobiography: A case study and discussion (Carol du Plessis) -- Chapter 25. Specificity and evolution of (psycho-) biography of Jesus of Nazareth in the first century AD (psychobiography in the Lvov-Warsaw School) (Amadeusz Citlak) -- Part 3: Applied Psychobiography -- Chapter 26. Psychobiography as an effective research methodology for the advocacy of abused and neglected youth in South Africa (Sharon Johnson) -- Chapter 27. Administration of the psychobiographical care model (Erwin Böhm).
Consciousness.
Social sciences
Psychological tests and testing.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Positive Psychology.
Psychological Methods/Evaluation.