Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A biography that analyzes the psychological makeup, character, or motivations of its subject.
- noun A character analysis.
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- noun A
biography that emphasises thepsychological aspects of its subject
Etymologies
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Examples
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BRACE: James David Barber is a very senior professor at Duke University who wrote a very influential book called "Presidential Character," and he employs a methodology typically called psychobiography, in which he examines the biographies of individuals, in this case, presidents, and tries to arrive at a judgment about their future behavior based upon elements of their past.
Follow the Leader: Opinion Polls and the Modern Presidents 1992
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Nothing about Mugabe's earlier life portended his swift rise, the South African journalist Heidi Holland notes in her "psychobiography" Dinner with Mugabe.
Progressive Bloggers 2008
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There is a "psychobiography" by Stefan Zweig, The Queen of Scots (London: Cassell and Company, Ltd. "
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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There is a "psychobiography" by Stefan Zweig, The Queen of Scots (London: Cassell and Company, Ltd. "
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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In An Emergency in Slow Motion, William Todd Schultz rushes toward Arbus convinced of the viability of psychobiography, of using general research findings in psychology to make sense of individual lives.
Michael Roth: Thinking Photography With Diane Arbus and Errol Morris Michael Roth 2011
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In An Emergency in Slow Motion, William Todd Schultz rushes toward Arbus convinced of the viability of psychobiography, of using general research findings in psychology to make sense of individual lives.
Michael Roth: Thinking Photography With Diane Arbus and Errol Morris Michael Roth 2011
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Neither psychobiography nor any other method can explain that.
Strange, If Tru James Campbell 2011
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In An Emergency in Slow Motion, William Todd Schultz rushes toward Arbus convinced of the viability of psychobiography, of using general research findings in psychology to make sense of individual lives.
Michael Roth: Thinking Photography With Diane Arbus and Errol Morris Michael Roth 2011
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In An Emergency in Slow Motion, William Todd Schultz rushes toward Arbus convinced of the viability of psychobiography, of using general research findings in psychology to make sense of individual lives.
Michael Roth: Thinking Photography With Diane Arbus and Errol Morris Michael Roth 2011
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In An Emergency in Slow Motion, William Todd Schultz rushes toward Arbus convinced of the viability of psychobiography, of using general research findings in psychology to make sense of individual lives.
Michael Roth: Thinking Photography With Diane Arbus and Errol Morris Michael Roth 2011
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