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psychobiography

American  
[sahy-koh-bahy-og-ruh-fee, -bee-] / ˌsaɪ koʊ baɪˈɒg rə fi, -bi- /

noun

  • psychobiographies
    plural
  1. a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.


psychobiography British  
/ ˌsaɪkəʊbaɪˈɒɡrəfɪ /

noun

  1. a biography that pays particular attention to a person's psychological development

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of psychobiography

First recorded in 1930–35; psycho- + biography


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What Mr. Macdonald wants to do is a kind of cultural psychobiography.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2018

For her psychobiography of Stangl, Ms. Sereny interviewed him for more than 60 hours in prison in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he was serving a life sentence.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2012

The author is William Todd Schultz, a professor of psychology at Pacific University, who specialises in what he calls "psychobiography".

From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2011

Haitink's Ninth flies in the face of the modern school of Mahler interpretation, with its overwrought hysteria and psychobiography.

From Chicago Tribune ● Jun. 3, 2011

In his psychobiography, the victims become only walk-ons, subordinated to a drama in which everyone is somehow responsible and therefore no one is truly guilty.

From Time Magazine Archive

The method with the longest track record is modeled on clinical case studies, the psychobiographies that therapists create when making a diagnosis, citing influences going back to the sandbox.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2011

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