Life Histories and Psychobiography

by William McKinley Runyan

Book Overview

"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, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"