Not that there doesn't seem to be substance to the author's psychobiographical musings.

The discipline of psychobiography has developed various methodological guidelines for psychobiographical study.

However, scholars untrained in the discipline who do not follow these guidelines continue to produce psychobiographical studies.

Most engagingly of all, Dr. Muensterberger draws three psychobiographical portraits.

A psychobiographical exploration.

Such psychobiographical musings are not Mr. Swafford's forte.

"Psychobiographical" accounts of Eliot have seized upon such references as evidence for his sense of guilt or unworthiness, but that is too deterministic.

She is so scrupulous about details and wary of psychobiographical guesses that at times she seems tone deaf to Nora's recorded comments.

Custer and the Little Big Horn: A Psychobiographical Inquiry (1985).

"I tried to come up with an approach that could not be accused of being excessively formalistic, or excessively psychobiographical, or too drily academic.

The methods of psychology that are applied to the study of scientific thought and behavior range from psychohistorical, psychobiographical, observational, descriptive, correlational, and experimental techniques.

A psychobiographical study by Philip Lucas and Anne Sheeran argues that he may have had Asperger's syndrome.

The Unknown Great Australian and Other Psychobiographical Portraits, Sun Books, Melbourne (1983)

She also studied issues like altruism and political ideology, and wrote psychobiographical works on historical figures including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Karl Marx's daughter Eleanor.

"Ding Ling and 'Miss Sophie's Diary': A Psychobiographical Study of Adolescent Identity Formation."

Major psychobiographical authors include Erik Erikson, James William Anderson, Henry Murray, George Atwood, and William Runyan.

This was 1982, early in what has become a literary age of relentless psychobiographical curiosity about authors, yet it was hardly unusual to examine Kafka this way; really, it was deeply traditional.

The volume includes an article on Brahms's relationship with Clara Schumann, one on psychobiographical questions, an essay on Brahms's contemporaries and a consideration of how duration affects one's perceptions of music.

In a view shared by Eakin, Stone and Dyson, psychobiographical writer Eugene Victor Wolfenstein writes that Haley performed the duties of a quasi-psychoanalytic Freudian psychiatrist and spiritual confessor.

If Mr. Wolfenstein, despite his flaws, represents the best of the psychobiographical impulse, Bruce Perry's "Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America" (1991) may represent the worst.

Despite the psychobiographical bias, there are plenty of backstage anecdotes, easily the most outrageous of which involves a New York stopover that Olivier made in 1953 while on the way to California to help Vivien Leigh with emotional difficulties.

Thomson has published papers on a variety of issues, including racism, narcissistic personality disorder, forensic psychiatry, depression and PTSD, and has written psychobiographical essays on Lee Harvey Oswald and Robert E. Lee.

Persons who have been the subject of psychobiographical research include Freud, Adolf Hitler, Sylvia Plath, Carl Jung, Vincent van Gogh, Abraham Lincoln, Elvis Presley, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Nixon.

Mumford was raised not knowing who his real father was, with a stepfather who served as sometime surrogate, and one need not walk a psychobiographical high wire to suggest that Mumford's arm's-length relationships with Geddes and Wright expressed a simultaneous longing for and distrust of paternal authority.

One view - let us call it the Keatsian Imperative - was summed up in this way by an angry indicter of all such psychobiographical efforts: "We know from his music that Schubert was a man with an exceptionally rich emotional life which reflects universal emotions of all mankind throughout their entire range.