New Trends in Psychobiography
This volume offers insights into contemporary trends and perspectives in psychobiographical research. It applys new theoretical and methodological frameworks and presents discourses on psychobiography from transdisciplin
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New Trends in Psychobiography
New Trends in Psychobiography
Claude-Hélène Mayer Zoltan Kovary •
Editors
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Editors Claude-Hélène Mayer Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management University of Johannesburg Johannesburg, South Africa
Zoltan Kovary Institute of Psychology Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary
Institut für Therapeutische Kommunikation und Sprachgebrauch Europa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
ISBN 978-3-030-16952-7 ISBN 978-3-030-16953-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16953-4
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Foreword
I am delighted to celebrate the publication of New Trends in Psychobiography. The life historical investigation of creative people—exceeding the Cartesian split between subject and object—represents the unity of life and thought, the principle of all psychobiographical researches. I’ve been interested in psychobiography for more than a half century. When I began my graduate work at Harvard in 1965, Harvard was the first and last stronghold of a traditional academic personality psychology known as personology. This was a tradition established by Henry Murray in the 1930s. Its basic principle was that academic knowledge of human personality can be achieved by the systematic in-depth study of the individual person, this is a claim that is odd with academic psychology going back to then, and it is still the case. In 1972, when I joined the faculty of Rutgers University, we tried to re-establish the tradition of personology at Rutgers. Our effort failed, but the one concrete result of thos
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