Uncovering Lives

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. He is the author of Personality in Politics and other books, as well as many articles in popular magazines and professional journals.

- Part One Why Psychobiography?
- 1.: The Psychologist as Biographer
- 2.: Starting from Scratch
- Part Two The Heart of the Theorist
- 3.: Freud as Leonardo
- 4.: The Auntification of C. G. Jung
- 5.: Allport Meets Freud and the Clean Little Boy
- 6.: Skinner's Dark Year and Walden Two
- Part Three Into the Fantastic
- 7.: The Thing from Inner Space: John W. Campbell
- 8.: Darker Than He Thought: The Psychoanalysis of Jack Williamson
- 9.: Asimov as Acrophobe
- 10.: The Mothr of Oz: L. Frank Baum
- 11.: Nabokov Contra Freud
- Part Four Beneath Politics
- 12.: Carter and Character
- 13.: The Counterplayers: George Bush and Saddam Hussein
- 14.: From Colonel House to General Haig
- Part Five Other Methods, Other Lives
- 15.: Going Beyond Scratch
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index