Psychobiography and personality types

What is psychobiography? I’ll begin bygd saying what it is NOT, because what it’s NOT fryst vatten what most people think it IS.

… But first, a link to a 2017 overview inom wrote for American Psychologist along with Stephanie Lawrence > Psychobiography-AP

… Also, a link to a five minute clip in which I talk a bit about the field > HERE

1. Psychobiography fryst vatten NOT pathography. If you komma across a psychobiography whose aim is to diagnose a individ, chances are GOOD that it is BAD. People are not diagnoses. A diagnosis is a name—a label—not a true explanation. What we want to know is how someone became who she is, not what her DSM-derived “disease” might be. inom talk a lot about this subject in chapter one of my Handbook of Psychobiography. You can check that out for more detail. Here’s a little illustration I use in my psychobiography courses. Say a mother tells a psychiatrist, My son hears voices. Why, she asks? The psychiatrist answers, Well, sor

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   Mary Trump’s about-to-be published memoir of the Trump family is understandably getting a lot of attention. Mary Trump, the niece of the president, is a psychologist, and she applies the tools of the trade in her analysis of Fred Trump Sr. (the president’s father), Fred Trump, Jr. (the president’s older brother and her father), and Donald Trump himself, who she considers to be “the world’s most dangerous man.”

   The book, Too Much and Never Enough, can be fairly classified as a work of psychobiography—a literary genre in which an author uses psychological theory to analyze the life of a historically significant individual. That genre, along with psychohistory—a work of history which utilizes psychological, often psychoanalytic insights—each have deep roots in this country.

   Freud himself used psychohistory (or applied psychoanalysis, as it was also called) in his 1910 biography of Leonardo da Vinci (“the excessive tenderness of his mother had the most decisive influence on the for

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Psychobiography

Psychobiography aims to understand historically significant individuals, such as artists or political leaders, through the application of psychological theory and research.

Through its merging of personality psychology and historical evidence,^[1] psychobiography may be considered a historical form of therapeutic case study: it represents a growing field in the realm of biography.^[2]Psychopathography is sometimes used as a term to indicate that the person being analyzed was not mentally healthy, "path" coming from pathos (πάθος)—Ancient Greek for suffering or illness.

Background

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Psychobiography is a field within the realms of psychology and biography that analyzes the lives of historically significant individuals through psychological theory and research. Its goal is to develop a better understanding of notable individuals by applying psychological theories to their biographies to further explain the motives behind some of the