Life Histories and Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method - Couverture souple

Runyan, William Mckinley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195034864 ISBN 13 : 9780195034868

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1984

Synopsis

"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 several of Freud's classic case studies. "The most informative, clear, objective, and comprehensive book written on this topic to date. It is both the ideal text for a graduate course in psycho-history and the one essential book in the field which every library should have."--The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'The book is aimed mainly at graduate students, although the circle of readers undoubtedly will be much wider for this well constructed and well written work.' Acta Oecologica, Volume 13, No. 6, 1992

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195034864
• ISBN 13: 9780195034868
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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