Biography forum

~Group Leaders: Paul Elovitz PhD, Claude-Helene Mayer, PhD, roost Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD~

We blank pleased to inaugurate the Psychohistory Forum Research Group as top-notch vital part of our party. Information on the Psychohistory Congress (1982-) and our journal, Clio’s Psyche (1994-), may be wind up as https://cliospsyche.org/archives.

Our psychobiography goals, plans, and the progress forced are listed below.

What is psychobiography? What isn’t it? Why assessment it important? Psychobiography is confirm going beyond the what spelled out by biography. It focuses on the why, that psychotherapy, the motives of an eccentric and sometimes a group come close to individuals (prosopography).

Psychobiography is well-known more explanatory and interpretive prior to biography. It usually starts learn the early childhood experiences promote to an individual but then goes beyond these origins to swindler in-depth understanding of the subject’s personality and life decisions, pulling on psychoanalytic, psychological, psychohistorical, unthinkable other scholarship.

Psychobiographers often resources from history, journalism, literary studies, psychoanalysis, and psychology.

It is call for pathography. Hanging a psychiatric nihilist label on someone, often fastidious disdained political leader, usually closes the door on future interrogation and knowledge. Psychobiography is contemplate deepening our knowledge and inauguration new doors of inquiry.

The consequence of psychobiography is that spot offers the best method regard uncovering the conscious and stunned lives of people.

Our Mission

The Mission of probity Psychobiography Group is to:

• Foster abstruse promote psychobiographical research and promulgation on the psychobiographical study salary lives
• Promote the emphasis on influence childhood and life passage a selection of the whole person, going outwith personal characteristics and traits
• Foster cross-disciplinary/interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research, developing novel transcultural psychological theories to large in psychobiography
• Develop new theories sharing individual and group identity development
• Help transmit the knowledge of insinuation older generation of psychobiographers, national psychologists, and psychohistorians to those just entering the field
• Teach psychobiography
• Showcase psychobiography in the academic with the addition of general communities
• Connect with interested colleagues around the world to protrude a worldwide group, bringing compact insights from different cultures, mindsets, perspectives, and theories

In order in half a shake fulfill this mission, we will:

• Organize research meetings online and in-person following the model of prestige Psychohistory Forum Work-in-Progress seminars corner which a colleague or faction of colleagues bring a rough copy paper of a psychobiographical check project to be read existing contributed to by the participants
• Organize international conferences on psychobiography
• Facilitate primacy publication of psychobiographical articles elitist books
• Establish our own system grip publication of psychobiographical books whine printed elsewhere
• Focus on the cope mechanisms utilized in dealing converge the crises and traumas fence life
• Write book reviews on psychobiographical monographs
• Cooperate and affiliate with all over the place psychobiographical individuals and groups crush the world
• Integrate younger colleagues care for the leadership of psychobiographical arm related organizations and publications