Uncovering Lives The Uneasy Alliance of

Written with great clarity and wit, Uncovering Lives illuminates the contributions that psychology can make to biography. Elms's enthusiasm for his subject is contagious and will inspire would-be psychobiographers as well as win over the most hardened skeptics.

Alan C. Elms is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis.

Why Psychobiography?
The Psychologist as Biographer	p. 3
Starting from Scratch	p. 19
The Heart of the Theorist
Freud as Leonardo	p. 35
The Auntification of C. G. Jung	p. 51
Allport Meets Freud and the Clean Little Boy	p. 71
Skinner's Dark Year and Walden Two	p. 85
Into the Fantastic
The Thing from Inner Space: John W. Campbell, Robert E. Howard, and Cordwainer Smith	p. 103
Darker Than He Thought: The Psychoanalysis of Jack Williamson	p. 117
Asimov as Acrophobe	p. 131
The Mother of Oz: L. Frank Baum	p. 142
Nabokov Contra Freud	p. 162
Beneath Politics
Carter and Character	p. 187
The Counterplayers: George Bush and Saddam Hussein	p. 206
From Colonel House to General Haig	p. 220
Other Methods, Other Lives
Going Beyond Scratch	p. 241
Notes	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 289
Index	p. 305
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Uncovering Lives The Uneasy Alliance of Biography and Psychology

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