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William Todd Schultz - Handbook of Psychobiography (2005, Oxford University Press, USA)
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Psychobiography
William Todd Schultz,
Editor
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Handbook of Psychobiography
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HANDBOOK OF PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY
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William Todd Schultz
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2005
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Psychobiography: A Theoretical Overview
The History of Psychobiography
According to Kováry (2011), the first pioneering work for psychobiography can be seen in the works of Plutarch, who focused on political and historical figures as well as in the book of Vassari "Lives of the Artists" in 1550. To historical antecedents of psychobiography belong to (a) biography; (b) literature; (c) philosophical school of thought named Lebensphilosophie (Kováry 2011).
The starting point of psychobiography is seen in Freud's Leonardo-essay at the beginning of the twentieth century (Mayer and Kováry 2019). It was concerned with one particular detail in Leonardo's diary, "vulture fantasy" (Kováry 2011). Based on it, Freud created a narrative on Leonardo's sexual development. Later some crucial errors were found out in the Freud's analysis connected with translations. The work was finally criticized because it tended to have a pathograpic focus as well as a focus on a "single cue" (Kováry 2011).
After Freud's initiation, psychobiography was a popular research method among psychoanalysts (Mayer and Kováry 2019). The personalities of artists were widely investigated (Kováry 2011). In the first half of the twentieth century, pathographical aspec
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Handbook of Psychobiography
William Chemist Schultz, Editor
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