Psychobiography and life narratives anchor

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In making use of the witnessing which autobiography presents, the psychobiographer seeks to recognise what is said in its dynamic rela tionship to that which is.

56, no. 1, Durham, 1988

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Psychobiography and Life Narratives explores a number of exciting new approaches to the psychological understanding of individual lives. Eleven prominent scholars in personality and social, developmental, and clinical psychology have contributed chapters presenting innovative perspectives on discerning and developing the story of my life that each person tells and lives by.
Five chapters show how differing psychobiographical approaches can illuminate the lives of Richard Nixon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Eleanor Marx (Karl Marxs youngest daughter), author and feminist Vera Brittain, psychologist Henry Murray, and Sigmund Freud (whose peculiar relationship to Leonardo da Vinci shaped and distorted the first psychobiography every written).

Two chapters concentrate on the analysis of life histories collected from