Life Histories and Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method
"Clinicians will find this book useful as they attempt to place life histories obtained in an explanatory, help-giving relationship into a scientific context...A reasoned, informative presentation supported by an adequate bibliography."--Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease"Entertaining as well as illuminating...an extremely valuable gathering of approaches to life history and psychobiography."--Qualitative Sociology"An outstanding work.  In this small volume Runyan makes a clear and compelling case for the importance of idiographic studies to the understanding of human behavior."--New Ideas Psychology"Runyan's training [in academic psychology] enables him to approach the psychobiography debate with an engaging and informed skepticism.   He employs the perspectives and parameters of empirical science to clarify the welter of facts and hypotheses on which assertions in psychobiography are often based."--Journal of Modern History