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  Life Histories and Psychobiography by William McKinley Runyan 1st HC Oxford 1982
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Make/Author/Artist: William McKinley Runyan
Edition/ Material: 1st 1982
Details: Hard Cover

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Product Code: LHISPSY

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Table of Contents:
  • Part I - Description and Explanation
    • Alternative Accounts of Lives
      • Alternative Accounts of the Life of Jesus
      • The Life of Shakespeare
      • The Life of Lincoln
      • Interpreting the Diversity of Accounts
    • Why Did Van Gogh Cut off his Ear? The Problem of Alternative Explanations in Psychobiography
      • A Variety of Explanations
      • The Critical Evaluation of Explanatory Conjectures
      • The Search for Single Explanation
    • Social Influences on the Course of Explanatory Endeavors
      • Daniel Ellsberg
      • Stephen Biko
      • The Empirical Course of Explanatory Endeavors
    • The Structure of Biographical Narrative
      • Woodrow Wilson
      • Virginia Woolf
      • Samuel Johnson
      • Selected Issues in the Structure of Narrative
  • Part II - Conceptualizations of the Life Course
    • The Life Course as a Theoretical Orientation
      • A Sequential Interactionist Conceptualization of the Life Course
      • Analysis of Heroin Use from a Life Course Perspective
      • Implications for the Prediction of Behavior
    • A Stage State Analysis of the Life Course
      • Types of Life Courses and Their Distribution
      • Multistage Flow Tables
      • Generalization and Applications
      • The Relationship of Conscious Agents to Studies of State Sequences
  • Part III - Theory and Method in the Study of Individual Lives
    • The Case Study Method
      • Conceptualization of the Case Study Method
      • Three Case Studies (King George III, Dr Schreber, Little Hans)
      • The Relationship of Single Case Experiemental Designs to Naturalistic Case Studies
      • Criteria for Evaluation
      • Methods for Improvments
    • Idiographic Methods
      • Issues of Conception and Defination
      • Three Levels of Generality in the study of Lives
      • Criticisms of the Idiographic Approach
      • An Updated Survey of Idiographic Methods
    • The Psychobiography Debate
      • Historical Sketch
      • Three Psychobiographical Interpretations (Woodrow Wilson, Emily Dicinson, Wilhelm Reich)
      • Definition
      • The Question of Inadequate Evidence
      • Reconstruction
      • Reductionism
      • The Relationship of Childhood Experience to Adult Behavior
      • Trans - Historical and Cross-Cultural Generality in Psychological Theory
      • The Place of Psychoanalytic Theory in Psychobiography
      • NonPsychoanalytic Approaches (Benjamin Franklin, B.F. Skinner, Malcolm X)
      • Training
      • Ethical Issues
    • Conclusion
    • References
    • Index
CONDITION: Hard Cover w Dust Jacket, some wear to DJ, we'll add a protective mylar cover to protect your investment, 1982 Oxford Press 1st edition/ 1st Printing, 288 pages, some underlining and marginalia in first few chapters of book.

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