psychobiography
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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
Judiciously, Manchester pays only lip service to psychobiography.
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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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