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050 00 $aBF39.4$b.E46 1994
082 00 $a920/.001/9$220
100 1 $aElms, Alan C.,$d1938-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95003775
245 10 $aUncovering lives :$bthe uneasy alliance of biography and psychology /$cAlan C. Elms.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1994.
263 $a9410
300 $avi, 315 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPt. 1. Why Psychobiography? 1. The Psychologist as Biographer. 2. Starting from Scratch -- Pt. 2. The Heart of the Theorist. 3. Freud as Leonardo. 4. The Auntification of C. G. Jung. 5. Allport Meets Freud and the Clean Little Boy. 6. Skinner's Dark Year and Walden Two -- Pt. 3. Into the Fantastic. 7. The Thing from Inner Space: John W. Campbell, Robert E. Howard, and Cordwainer Smith. 8. Darker Than He Thought: The Psychoanalysis of Jack Williamson. 9. Asimov as Acrophobe. 10. The Mother of Oz: L. Frank Baum. 11. Nabokov Contra Freud -- Pt. 4. Beneath Politics. 12. Carter and Character. 13. The Counterplayers: George Bush and Saddam Hussein. 14. From Colonel House to General Haig -- Pt. 5. Other Methods, Other Lives. 15. Going Beyond Scratch.
520 $aPsychobiography 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").
650 0 $aPsychology$xBiographical methods.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88000573
650 0 $aBiography as a literary form.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014164
650 0 $aPsychologists$xPsychology$vCase studies.
650 0 $aPoliticians$xPsychology$vCase studies.
650 0 $aAuthors$xPsychology$vCase studies.
852 00 $boff,psy$hBF39.4$i.E46 1994