Life Histories and Psychobiography

by William McKinley Runyan

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"The one essential book in the field" In this pathbreaking study, Runyan reviews and responds to major criticism of psychobiography and of the case study method, and suggests criteria for evaluating and improving in-depth studies of individual lives. Theoretical points are vividly illustrated with examples from the lives of (among others) Vincent Van Gogh, Emily Dickinson, Abraham Lincoln, Shakespeare, Malcolm X, Woodrow Wilson, Virginia Woolf, and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195034864

ISBN13:9780195034868

Release Date:April 1984

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

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