Psychobiography and life narratives / edited by Dan P. McAdams and Richard L. Ochberg.

Durham : Duke University Press, 1988.

340 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"The text of this book was originally published, in slightly different form and without the present index, as volume 56, number 1 of the Journal of Personality"--T.p. verso

Biography, narrative, and lives : an introduction / Dan P. McAdams -- Freud as Leonardo : why the first psychobiography went wrong / Alan C. Elms -- The changing self : using personal documents to study lives / Abigail J. Stewart, Carol Franz, and Lynne Layton -- Using motive scores in the psychobiographical study of an individual : the case of Richard Nixon / David G. Winter and Leslie A. Carlson -- Exemplary lives : the uses of psychobiography for theory development / Rae Carlson -- Henry A. Murray's early career : a psychobiographical exploration / James William Anderson -- Life stories and the psychosocial construction of careers / Richard L. Ochberg -- The press release : symbolic communication in life history interviewing / Jacquelyn Wiersma -- A theory of multiple-case research / George C. Rosenwald -- Personality, psychological assessment, and psychobiography / Irving E. Alexander -- Progress in psychobiography / William McKinley Runyan.

Includes bibliographies and index