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The following interview with Jefferson A. Singer highlights the differences between biography and psychobiography. It points to the limits that psychobiography may place on describing the comprehensive life, but the expansiveness it embraces in connecting aspects of that life to more general theories of personality and identity. The interview also identifies past problems associated with psychobiography and the promise that personality science presents for the future of psychobiographical studies.
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Singer, J.A. (2019). Jefferson A. Singer in Interview with Claude-Hélène Mayer; September 22, 2018. In: Mayer, CH., Kovary, Z. (eds) New Trends in Psychobiography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16953-4_31
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