Psychobiographical illustrations on meaning and identity in sociocultural contexts. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Claude-Hélène Mayer, Paul J.P. Fouché, Roelf Van Niekerk.
• Editors: Mayer, Claude-Hélène; Fouché, Paul, J. P; Van Niekerk, Roelf
• Contents: Chapter 1: Editorial: Psychobiographical Illustrations on Meaning and Identity in Sociocultural Contexts.- Chapter 2: Discovering the 'I' in the 'THOU'. The Psychological Effects of Psychobiographical Research on The Personality of The Researcher.- Chapter 3: The Oldest Psychobiography in The World? (Psychobiography of Socrates in The Lvov-Warsaw School).- Chapter 4: Exploring Non-verbal Communication and Body Language in Creating a Meaningful Life: Angela Merkel in Psychobiography.- Chapter 5: A Comparative Psychobiographical Exploration of the Role of Generativity in Meaning Making for Two Women in the Anti-apartheid Movement.- Chapter 6: 'I As Photographer': A Visual Narrative Analysis of Vivian Maier's Self-Portraits.- Chapter 7: Variables Of a Life's Equation. Contribution to Zoltan Paul Dienes' Psychobiography.- Chapter 8: 'Aristocrat of the underground': Karl Lagerfeld's Romantic Self-fashioning as a Meaningful Transformation of Shame.- Chapter 9: Was British Cold War Spy and Double Agent Kim Philby a Successful Psychopath? A Psychobiographical Analysis.- Chapter 10: The Fanatic of Meaning-Making. The Psychobiographical Case Study of Loránt Hegedüs.- Chapter 11: 'Everything is reparable': A Psychobiography of Charles Baudelaire.- Chapter 12: The Elusiveness of Identity and Meaning: The Lonely Journey of Henri Nouwen.- Chapter 13: Broadening the Parameters of the Psychobiography. The Character Motivations Of The 'Ordinary' Extraordinary.- Chapter 14: Social Justice in Psychobiography: When That Sky Was Bluest for W.E.B. Du Bois.- Chapter 15: What we Talk About When We Talk About The Past: Discursive Psychological Analysis of Autobiographical Reminiscence in Older Irish Adults.- Chapter 16: Epilog: Reflections on the Futures of Psychobiography.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 150.722; Psychology -- Biographical methods; Biography as a literary form -- Pyschological aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030812386
• Related ISBNs: 9783030812379
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