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teractive narcism and was able to correctly predict the german leader s suicide in the face of his country s defeat this work by dr murray not only helped establish personality psychology as a behavioral science but it also showed how the field of psychobiography could be applied as a means of psychoanalysis 3 origins and development edit persons who have been the subject of psychobiographical research include freud adolf hitler 4 sylvia plath carl jung vincent van gogh 5 martin luther 6 abraham lincoln elvis presley søren kierkegaard friedrich nietzsche 7 andrew jackson richard nixon 8 and ignatius of loyola 9 major psychobiographical authors include erik erikson 10 james william anderson 11 henry murray 12 george e atwood 13 and william runyan 14 many psychobiographies are freudian or psychodynamic in orientation but other commonly used theories include narrative models of identity such as the life story model script theory object relations and existentialism phenomenology and psychobiographers are increasingly looking for explanatory complexity through an eclectic approach 15 though there were other psychobiographies written before freud s leonardo da vinci a memory of his childhood in 1910 it is considered the most significant contribution of its time despite its flaws psychobiographies about william shakespeare jones 1910 giovanni segantini abraham 1912 richard wagner graf 1911 amenhotep iv abraham 1912 martin luther smith 1913 and socrates karpas 1915 were also published between 1910 and 1915 but are not as well known 16 between 1920 and 1926 psychobiographies of margaret fuller anthony 1920 samuel adams harlow 1923 edgar allan poe krutch 1926 and abraham lincoln clark 1923 were published by authors from a psychoanalytic perspective without a background in psychoanalysis during the 1930s tolstoy dostoevsky molière sand goethe coleridge nietzsche poe rousseau caesar lincoln napoleon darwin and alexander the great were the subjects of psychobiographies and soon afterward in 1943 a psychobiography of adolf hitler predicting his suicide was written during world war ii but was not published until 1972 recent significant contributions between 1960 and 1990 include psychobiographies of henry james edel 1953 72 isaac newton manuel 1968 mohandas gandhi erikson 1969 max weber mitzman 1969 emily dickinson cody 1971 joseph stalin tucker 1973 james and john stuart mill mazlish 1975 t e lawrence mack 1976 adolf hitler waite 1977 beethoven solomon 1977 samuel johnson bate 1977 alice james strouse 1980 wilhelm reich sharaf 1983 and william james feinstein 1984 17 some psychobiographies at this time were also written about groups of people focusing on an aspect they had in common such as american presidents philosophers utopians revolutionary leaders and personality theorists these psychobiographies are the most well known but since 1910 there have been over 4000 psychobiographies published 16 as psychobiography gained recognition authors from a variety of professions contributed their own work from alternate perspectives and varying methods of analysis of the psychobiographical subjects significantly expanding psychobiography beyond the psychoanalytical perspective apart from psychoanalysts and psychiatrists who wrote the first psychobiographies there have been historians political scientists personality psychologists literary critics sociologists and anthropologists that have contributed to the growth of the field 16 psychobiography has also conflicted with contemporary views of science since its origin because it contains no controlled variables or experimentation in its early years it was dismissed as unscientific and not a legitimate addition to the field of psychology due to the push towards experimentation focused on physiological and biological factors and away from philosophical psychology to establish it as a natural science the value of psychobiography to psychology is comparable to forensic science and archaeology offering detailed analyses of subjects with an emphasis on contextual information but due to the qualitative nature of this information it remains a challenge to validate psychobiographical works as empirically based applications of psychology 17 methodology edit this section does not cite any sources please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed june 2013 learn how and when to remove this message the discipline of psychobiography has developed various methodological guidelines for psychobiographical study some of the most prominent are these the use of prototypical scenes in the life of the subject to serve as a model of their personality pattern 18 the use of a series of indicators of salience markers such as primacy frequency and uniqueness of an event in a life to identify significant patterns 18 the identification of pregnant metaphors or images that organize autobiographical narratives logical coherence or consistency as a criterion for adequate psychological interpretations scholars untrained in the discipline who do not follow these guidelines continue to produce psychobiographical studies contributors edit sigmund freud edit freud s psychoanalytic approach freudian perspective is not commonly used in its entirety in psychobiography but it has had a lasting influence on the analysis of behavior in other areas of psychology to sift through a lifetime of information and locate significant areas in the subject s development requires a system of identification and psychoanalysis provided the base for this primacy the initial exposure or experience was recognized by freud as an important factor in personality development and has remained an important aspect of personality psychology psychotherapy and psychobiography frequency repeated exposure or actions is also important but its significance can vary if the frequency of an action is low then it is seen as unimportant and if the frequency is too high it becomes passive and overlooked also becoming less important in psychobiography freud s knowledge of the importance of frequency is shown in the analysis of dreams slips errors and humor by recognizing that repetition leads people to disregard these behaviors or stimuli the importance of error in psychobiography including slips and distortions is also rooted in freudian psychoanalysis and is used to identify hidden motives 19 elms edit elms has contributed to psychobiography through many published works including psychobiographies on allport 1972 freud 1980 skinner 1981 and murray 1987 he has also written about the subject of psychobiography in psychobiography and case study methods and uncovering lives the uneasy alliance of biography and psychology defining psychobiography and its methods and explaining the value of psychobiography in psychology 20 21 mayer edit this section may incorporate text from a large language model which is prohibited in wikipedia articles it may include hallucinated information copyright violations claims not verified in cited sources original research or fictitious references any such material should be removed december 2025 learn how and when to remove this message claude hélène mayer is a psychobiographer whose research combines psychology management and cultural anthropology her work examines psychobiography from an interdisciplinary perspective mayer applies complex psychological theories such as jungian analysis existential psychology and intercultural psychology to the lives of prominent individuals her work often explores the interplay of culture identity and meaning making providing nuanced portraits that go beyond surface level biography 22 23 she further investigates subjects from diverse cultural backgrounds and emphasizes the role of sociocultural context in psychological development this positions her work at the intersection of psychobiography and intercultural psychology a space few have explored with such rigor she has contributed to bring psychobiography and the non weird western educated industrialised rich and democratic approach closer together 24 and her work is known for its depth and scholarly precision finally she has contributed to expand the psychobiographical research methodology highlighting the importance to use interdisciplinary theories positive psychology and existential psychology 25 as tools in the psychobiographical analysis she is further a pioneer in emphasising the importance of lessons learned from psychobiography 26 27 criticism edit psychobiography has faced criticism from the very start 28 crystallised above all in the production of what erikson caricatured as originology the explaining away of significant public events and actions as the product of some minute childhood detail 29 bad psychobiography using mechanical psychologising a selective mining of the facts 30 overdeterminism and a tendency to pathologise 31 is considered easy to write the haphazard historical evolution of the discipline has not helped reduce its prevalence 32 see also edit psychopathography of adolf hitler retrospective diagnosis leadership analysis references edit b j carducci the psychology of personality 2009 p 196 c rollyson biography 2007 p 3 murray henry the analysis of the personality of adolph hitler the analysis of the personality of adolph hitler 1943 n p n d web waite robert g l the psychopathic god adolf hitler new york first dacapo press edition 1993 orig pub 1977 isbn 0 306 80514 6 meissner william w 1997 vincent s religion the search for meaning new york washington dc baltimore bern frankfurt am main berlin vienna paris lang isbn 978 0820433905 g r elton the practice of history 1969 p 39 safranski rüdiger nietzsche a philosophical biography granta books london 2002 vienna 2000 new york 2002 isbn 0 393 05008 4 volkan vamik d itzkowitz norman dod andrew w 1997 richard nixon a psychobiography new york columbia university press isbn 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i e 1988 personality psychological assessment and psychobiography journal of personality 56 1 elms a c 2007 psychobiography and case study methods in r w robins r c fraley r f krueger eds the handbook of research methods in personality psychology new york guilford press pp 97 113 elms a c 1994 uncovering lives the uneasy alliance of biography and psychology new york and oxford oxford university press paperback reprint 1997 mayer claude hélène fouché paul j p van niekerk roelf eds 2021 psychobiographical illustrations on meaning and identity in sociocultural contexts doi 10 1007 978 3 030 81238 6 isbn 978 3 030 81237 9 cite book cs1 maint multiple names editors list link mayer claude helene 2017 the life and creative works of paulo coelho doi 10 1007 978 3 319 59638 9 isbn 978 3 319 59637 2 mayer claude hélène van niekerk roelf fouché paul j p ponterotto joseph g eds 2023 beyond weird psychobiography in times of transcultural and transdisciplinary perspectives doi 10 1007 978 3 031 28827 2 isbn 978 3 031 28826 5 krasovska nataliya mayer claude hélène 2021 a psychobiography of viktor e frankl springerbriefs in psychology doi 10 1007 978 3 030 70814 6 isbn 978 3 030 70813 9 issn 2192 8363 mayer claude hélène 2025 lessons learned from frithjof bergmann and salutogenesis in the digital age a psychobiographical perspective in van niekerk annelize harry nisha coetzee melinde eds unlocking sustainable wellbeing in the digital age human well being research and policy making cham springer nature switzerland pp 305 323 doi 10 1007 978 3 031 87616 5_15 isbn 978 3 031 87616 5 mayer claude hélène fouché paul j p 2021 lessons learnt from baruch spinoza shame and faith development in the light of challenges in contemporary society in mayer claude hélène vanderheiden elisabeth wong paul t p eds shame 4 0 investigating an emotion in digital worlds and the fourth industrial revolution cham springer international publishing pp 247 274 doi 10 1007 978 3 030 59527 2_13 isbn 978 3 030 59527 2 retrieved 2025 06 23 gay p 312 3 elms p 4 barzun p 203 elms p 10 11 elms p 8 further reading edit krasovska n mayer c h 2021 a psychobiography of viktor e frankl using adversity for life transformation springer briefs in psychology cham switzerland springer briefs mayer c h van niekerk r fouché p j ponterotto j 2023 beyond weird psychobiography in times of transcultural and transdisciplinary perspectives cham switzerland springer mayer c h fouché p j van niekerk r 2021 psychobiographical illustrations on meaning and identity in sociocultural contexts sociocultural psychology of the lifecourse series cham switzerland palgrave macmillian mayer c h 2017 the life and creative works of paulo coelho a psychobiography from a positive psychology perspective cham switzerland springer mayer c h kovary z 2019 new trends in psychobiography cham switzerland springer ogilvie dan 2004 fantasies of flight new york oxford university press runyan william 1982 life histories and psychobiography new york oxford university press schultz william todd 2005 handbook of psychobiography new york oxford university press external links edit psychobiography forum https psychobiographyforum com what is psychobiography analysis of the personality of hitler authority control databases international gnd national japan retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title psychobiography oldid 1360730527 categories psychohistory applied psychology freudian psychology psychopathology biography genre cultural history interdisciplinary historical research hidden categories cs1 maint multiple names editors list articles with short description short description is different from wikidata articles needing additional references from june 2013 all articles needing additional references articles containing suspected ai generated texts from december 2025 this page was last edited on 23 june 2026 at 06 50 utc text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license additional 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