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The author of George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream, Dan P. McAdams describes his own perspective on psychological biography. McAdams argues that psychological biography is an artful enterprise, but he urges psychological biographers to draw upon evidence-based science for interpreting the individual life. One useful theoretical frame for applying scientific concepts to biography is McAdams's three-layered model of personality development over the life course, which conceives of the person as a social actor endowed with dispositional traits, a motivated agent guided by goals and values, and an autobiographical author who aims to create an integrative narrative to make sense of life.
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McAdams, D.P. (2019). Dan P. McAdams in Interview with Claude-Hélène Mayer; September 19, 2018. In: Mayer, CH., Kovary, Z. (eds) New Trends in Psychobiography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16953-4_30
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