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1885 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) July 523 (heading) Psycho-biography; Cross's Life of George Eliot.

1931 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 22 96 The majority of ‘psychobiographies’ and pseudo-scientific works on the psychology of character.

1969 Daily Tel. 20 Mar. 22/2 Frank E. Manuel, the American historian,..in this ‘psycho-biography’ attempts to analyse aspects of Newton's conduct.

1999 S. Reifel Play Contexts Revisited 4 Scientific inventiveness was the form of creativity that Erikson sought to explain in a short psychobiography of Albert Einstein.

1932 J. Jastrow House Freud Built v. 131 In addition to his many other honors, Freud may be credited with an influential part in establishing psycho-biography.

1965 Hist. & Theory 4 357 This is still psychobiography, but the psychopathological model has given way to a model of man in history.

2000 R. L. Shinn in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 480/1 The two esteemed and admired each other. Occasional dabblers in psychobiography have sought signs of sibling rivalry.

1922 S. J. van Teslaar Sex & Senses xli. 328 I give this brief outline of a lengthy psycho-biographic account obtained from L. B., a very successful artist.

1991 Washington City Paper 2 Aug. 33/1 Employing psychobiographic technique to explain Reagan's epistemology rather than positing a single Freudian cause for every action.

1914 F. Schoenemann in K. Francke German Classics of 19th & 20th Cent. XVIII. 334 On those psycho-biographical sketches..is based The Life of Count Federigo Confalonieri.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Sept. 40/4 He is a psychobiographical critic,..interested in the poem not as artifact but as evidence.

1995 O. Lee First Intermissions xv. 162 The canniest stroke of Barbier and Carre was to frame their three stories with details from E. T. A. Hoffman's most psychobiographical tale, the one he called ‘Don Juan’.

1938 PMLA 53 Suppl. 1310 Juxtaposes the two poets' thought and art as ‘naive’ and ‘sentimental’ for the purpose of gegenseitige Erhellung, both psychobiographically and topically.

2001 Art Bull. 83 711/1 For the most part, this episode has been interpreted psychobiographically as yet another manifestation of the artist's notoriously childlike hypersensitivity.