Adams, Maureen. "Emily Dickinson Had a Dog: An Interpretation of the Human-Dog Bond." Anthrozooes 12.3 (1999): 132-141.

Looks at the relationship between Dickinson and her Newfoundland dog Carlo from both psychological and mythological perspectives, finding, among other things, that Carlo helped Dickinson feel protected, that he soothed her anxiety, and that he acted as a go-between with other people.

Schorske, Carl E. "To the Egyptian Dig: Freud’s Exploration in Western Cultures." Psychoanalysis and Culture at the Milleneum. Ed. Nancy Ginsburg and Roy Ginsburg. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. 11-34.

Analyzes the "gendered cultural geography" of Freud’s mind.

Shamdasani, Sonu. "Memories, Dreams, Omissions." Jung in Contexts: A Reader. Ed. Paul Bishop. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999. 33-50.

Notes that Jung’s book Memories, Dreams, Reflections is less an autobiography than a heavily revised and rewritten biography. Alan Elms surveys similar terrain in an article on Jung in his book, Uncovering Lives: The Uneasy Alliance of Psychology and Biography, 1993.

Glad, Betty and Eric Shiraev. "A Profile of Mikhail Gorbachev: Psychological and Sociological Underpinnings." The Russian Transformation: Political, Sociological, and Psychological Aspects. Ed. Betty Glad and Eric Shiraev. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. 23-52.

Analyzes Gorbachev’s character structure and early life for insights into the leadership skills he exhibited in trying to transform the Soviet Union. Asserts in addition that certain personal qualities prevented him, over the long haul, from directing the processes he began.

Harris, Paul. "Psychobiography: Fingerprintings of a Lifetime." Older People and Their Needs: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective. Ed. Ginetta Corley. London, England: Whurr Publishers, 2000. 123-133.

Briefly reviews the field of psychobiography, then avows its special utility in assisting clinicians to recognize the elderly as unique individuals. Concludes with "the application of psychobiography to working with older people deserves consideration not as a diversionary therapy but as central to understanding and valuing their lives and experiences."

Feist, Gregory. "The Influence of Personality on Artistic and Scientific Creativity." Handbook of Creativity. Ed. Robert Sternberg. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 273-296.

By reviewing literature on personality and creativity, aims to show that personality has an influence on creative achievement both in art and in science. Proposes an integrative theory linking personality and creativity.

McGann, P.J. "Skirting the Gender Normal Divide: A Tomboy Life Story." Women’s Untold Stories: Breaking Silence, Talking Back, Voicing Complexity. Ed. Mary Romero and Abigail Stewart. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999. 105-124.

Presents life story of Erika, a 30 year-old White heterosexual performance artist and a "tomboy" since childhood in order to explore question of how individuals construct identities and lives around, alongside of, and against narrative presumptions of what they should look and act like.

Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum. "Black Holes as Sites for Self-Constructions." Making Meaning of Narratives: The Narrative Study of Lives. Ed. Ruthellen Josselson and Amia Lieblich. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999, Volume 6. 45-75.

Reinterprets an autobiography by anthropologist Marianne Gullestad in order to highlight what a reading from a psychological perspective can add to a cultural analysis, in particular reference to the question of agency.

Dien, Dora Shu-fang. "Ding Ling and Miss Sophie’s Diary: A Psychobiographical Study of Adolescent Identity Formation." Making Meaning of Narratives: The Narrative Study of Lives. Ed. Ruthellen Josselson and Amia Lieblich. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1999, Volume 6. 221-237.

Shows that Chinese writer Ding Ling’s short story "Miss Sophie’s Diary" helped her progress into adulthood by making commitments in at least two of the three major areas commonly encountered during transitions from childhood to adult life.

Atkinson, Dorothy; Walmsley, Jan. "Using Autographical Approaches with People with Learning Difficulties." Disability & Society 14.2 (March 1999): 203-217.

Reviews approaches to biography and autobiography with people with learning disabilities, then ends with a discussion of autobiography’s potential to transform power relationships in disability research.

Aubin Ed de. "Personal Ideology: The Intersection of Personality and Religious Beliefs." Journal of Personality 67.6 (December 1999): 1104-1138.

Extending the script-theoretical ideas of Silvan Tomkins–the forerunner of much narrative work in today’s psychology–suggests that personal ideology can elucidate the content, structure, and development of religious beliefs. Also examines religiousness as a biologically-motivated interpretive structure.

Ayers, Lorry; Beaton, Sarah; Hunt, Harry. "The Significance of Transpersonal Experiences, Emotional Conflict, and Cognitive Abilities in Creativity." Empirical Studies of the Arts 17.1 (1999) 73-82.

Finds that creative subjects reported more mystical experiences than did control subjects, including more lucid and archetypal-mythological dreaming and out-of-body experiences. Contrary to stereotype, results did not show greater evidence of psychopathology in creative subjects relative to controls.

Biasi, Valeria; Bonaiuto, Paolo; Giannini, Anna Maria; Chiapper, Elisabetta. "Personological Studies on Dancers; Motivation, Conflicts and Defense Mechanisms." Empirical Studies of the Arts 17.2 (1999): 171-186.

Comparing dance artists and athletes with "sedentary people," concludes that Type A personality is twice as prevalent among dancers and three times as common among athletes, while the Type B pattern is proportionally more frequent among sedentary persons. Moreover, relative to athletes and sedentary subjects, dancers show less hardiness, higher tendencies to deny and control negative emotions, and avoidance of interpersonal conflict.

Bradford, David T. "Neuropsychological of Swedenborg’s Visions." Perceptual & Motor Skills 88.2 (April 1999): 377-383.

In the wake of a convulsive, transformative event in 1744, 56-year-old scientist Emanuel Swedenborg became a visionary and spent his remaining years exploring the spirit world. This work reduces Swedenborg’s visions and trance-states to a "vascular anomaly in the posterior area of the left cerebral hemisphere." Proposes the term "neuropathography" for a new genre of neuropsychological case study.

Britton, Ronald. "Getting in on the Act: The Hysterical Solution." International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 80.1 (February 1999): 1-14.

Recounts the famous case of Anna O., incorporating some recently available additional information. Suggests that a feature of hysteria is projective identification.

Caspi, Avshalom. "The Child is Father of the Man: Personality Continuities from Childhood to Adulthood" Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 78.1 (2000) 158-172.

Presents findings of continuities in personality development in a cohort of children studied from age 3 to 21, revealing that early appearing temperamental differences have a pervasive influence on life-course. Specifically, undercontrolled 3-year-olds grew up to be impulsive, unreliable, and antisocial. Inhibited 3-year-olds were more likely to be unassertive and depressed.

Coco, Janice M. "Exploring the Frontier from the Inside Out: John Sloan’s Nude Studies." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 47.4 (Fall 1999): 1335-1376.

Argues that realist Sloan’s late preoccupation with the female nude represents a period of intense retrospective self-exploration.

Coleman, Peter G., Ivani-Chalian, Christine, and Robinson, Maureen. "Self and Identity in Advanced Old Age: Validation of Theory through Longitudinal Case Analysis." Journal of Personality 67.5 (October 1999): 819-849.

Case studies drawn from a 20-year longitudinal project on aging are examined in light of two models of self in later life: the life story model and the management of self esteem model.

Cribb, Catrin. Gregory, Andrew H. "Stereotypes and Personalities of Musicians." Journal of Psychology 133.1 (January 1999): 104-114.

Finds that personality differences or stereotypes among musicians–i.e., neuroticism and extraversion--are probably determined more by the history and traditions of the group in which they are involved than by the type of instrument they play.

Deardorff, Donald L. II. "Dancing in the End Zone: Don DeLillo, Men’s Studies and the Quest for Linguistic Healing." Journal of Men’s Studies 8.1 (Fall 1999): 73-82.

Offers a "men’s studies" approach to DeLillo’s novel End Zone, premised on the idea that the book encourages men to express a unique male voice promising liberation through disclosure.

Emery, Laura; Keenan, Margaret. " "I’ve Been Robbed!": Breaking the Silence in Silas Marner." American Journal of Psychoanalysis 59.3 (September 1999): 209-223.

Aims to show that psychoanalytic ideas on trauma and mastery can help to understand both Silas Marner and George Eliot. Through Silas, Eliot began a healing process.

Feldman, Gail Carr. "Dissociation, Repetition-Compulsion, and the art of Frida Kahlo." Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. 27.3 (Fall 1999): 387-396.

Regards Kahlo’s art as expressing traumatic experiences–of which she had several–and exhibiting the defense mechanisms of dissociation and compulsive repetition.

Fitzgerald, Michael. "Did "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers", Paul Erdos, Have Asperger Syndrome?" Nordic Journal of Psychiatry 53.6 (1999): 465-466.

Tries to diagnose mathematician Paul Erdos.

Frantom, Catherine. Serman, Martin F. "At What Price Art? Affective Instability within Art Population." Creativity Research Journal 12.1 (1999): 15-23.

Confirms previous findings showing a relationship between affective instability and creativity in a sample of 54 visual artists. No gender differences were uncovered.

Frauman, David C. Neu-Frauman, Carol J. "Dorothea Lange, Photographer of the Depression Era: A Self-Psychological Portrait." Arts in Psychology 26.3 (1999): 137-147.

Posits that a particular Kohutian selfobject type, the twinship selfobject, motivated Lange to 1) make the abject victims of the Depression the central motif in her photography and 2) transform her subjects from objects of pity to heroic icons.

Gruen, A. "The need to Punish: The Political Consequences of Identifying with the Aggressor. " Journal of Psychohistory 27.2 (1999): 136-154.

Political implications of identification with the aggressor and the need to punish are discussed.

Ihanus, Juhani. "Water, Birth and Stalin’s Thirst for Power: Psychohistorical Roots of Terror." Journal of Psychohistory 27.1 (Summer 1999): 67-84.

Stalin’s leadership style and brutality are traced to the practices of childrearing in Russia and Georgia.

Jordan, Thomas E. "John O’Neill, Irish Bootmaker: A Biographical Approach to Quality of Life. Social Indicators Research 48.3 (November 1999): 299-319.

O’Neill’s 1869 autobiography "Fifty Years Experience of an Irish Shoemaker in London" is used to examine quality of life questions in the context of 19^th century Irish emigration.

Kaarbo, Juiet; Beasley, Ryan k. "A Practical Guide to the Comparative Case Study Method in Political Psychology. " Political Psychology 20.2 (1999): 369-391.

Assuming that the case study is particularly suited to the field of polotical psychology, this article reviews the various definitions and uses of case studies while at the same time integrating a number of recent advances into a practical guide for conducting case study research.

Leon, Iriving G. "Bereavement and Repair of the Self: Poetic Confrontations with Death." Psychoanalytic Review 86.3 (June 1999): 383-401.

Explores "narcissistic repercussions of bereavement" and efforts at self-repair in the poetry of James Tate and Sylvia Plath

Lucal, Betsy. "What it Means to be Gendered Me: Life on the Boundaries of a Dichotomous Gender System." Gender and Society 13.6 (December 1999): 781-797.

Illustrates and extends theoretical work in the social construction of gender by providing an analysis of her experiences as a woman whose appearance often leads to gender misattribution.

Merten, Thomas; Fischer, Ines. "Creativity, Personality and Word Association Responses: Associative Behaviour in Forty Supposedly Creative Persons." Personality & Individual Differences 27.5 (November 1999): 933-942.

Relying on Eysenck’s assumptions about the relationship between psychoticism, creativity, and word-association behavior, an experiment with a sample of 40 writers and actors reveals that this presumed creative group–compared with schizophrenics and controls–scored significantly higher on psychoticism but not on any other personality scale.

McCullough, Michael E., Worthington, Everett L. Jr. "Religion and the Forgiving Personality." Journal of Personality 67.6 (December 1999): 1141-1164.

Shows how the concept of forgiveness could be an important common ground for future research on the interface of religion and personality.

McDougall, Joyce. "Violence and Creativity." Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review 22.2 (1999): 207-217.

Following Freud and Winnicott, seeks to delineate certain violent aspects of the creative act, including how the artist forces paint, marble, sounds or words into a transgressive configuration exclusively his/her own.

Motley, Jonathan C; Sommer, Robert. "A Content Analysis of Richard Dadds’s Art." Arts in Psychotherapy 26.5 (1999): 295-301.

Compares Dadd’s paintings before and after his confinement to mental hospitals over a period of 43 years. Among other findings, more people and animals appeared in the institutional paintings, and the institutional paintings also had a more depressed tone. Despite delusions of demons, the same work did not represent such persecutory figures more than did the non-institutional work.

Preti, Antonio; Miotto, Paola. "Suicide among Eminent Artists." Psychological Reports 84.1 (February 1999): 291-301.

A total of 59 suicides were observed in a sample of 3093 eminent artists (architects, painters, sculptors, writers, poets, and playwrights). As in past research, female poets and writers exceeded the mean suicide ratio of the sample. Links between mania and creativity were explored as a possible contributing factor.

Ramachandran, V.S; Hirstein, William. "The Science of Art: A Neurological Theory of Aesthetic Experience." Journal of Consciousness Studies 6.6-7 (June-July 1999): 15-51.

Begins with a list of eight laws of artistic experience–a set of heuristics–then goes on to present a theory of human artistic experience and the neural mechanisms which may mediate it. Ramachandran is one of the most broadly gifted neuroscientists working today, his work full of thoughtful and creative speculations.

Rottenberg, Carl T. "George Eliot–Proto-Psychoanalyst." American Journal of Psychoanalysis 59.3 (September 1999): 257-270.

Suggesting that Eliot is a proto-analyst who foresaw certain features of psychoanalysis, examines the impact Eliot’s novels may have had on Freud’s ideas, in particular empathy, the unconscious, transference, and therapeutic change.

Sperber, Michael. "Variations on a theme of Shame: Chekhov, Glenn Gould, and the "Cased-in-Man" Syndrome." Psychoanalytic Review 86.2 (April 1999): 175- 189.

Calling shame, with some justification, "the Cinderalla of painful emotions," both neglected and potentially transforming, Sperber examines two responses to the emotion, each suggesting a "cased-in man" syndrome: the Chekhov antihero Belikov from "The Man in a Case," and the brilliant and brilliantly idiosyncratic pianist, Glenn Gould.

Steinberg, Stanley. "Tragic Absurdity in the Music of Gustav Mahler." Psychoanalytic Review 86.6 (December 1999): 853-875.

Concludes that from the age of six Mahler developed stylistic devices allowing him to express in music what he could not express in words, most notably feelings about the loss of a number of siblings.

The influence of mothers, structure within the home, and mentors are found to encourage success in a content-analytic investigation of the childhoods of 5 British boys born between 1880 and 1933 in low socioeconomic conditions.

Therivel, William A. "Why Mozart and not Salieri." Creativity Research Journal 12.1 (1999): 67-76.

GAM/DP theory of creativity (G standing for genetic endowment, A for assistances of youth, M for misfortunes of youth, and DP for divisions of power) is used to explain why Mozart, not his contemporary Salieri, was considered the great creator.

Turco, Ronald. "Mask and Steel: Mishima - When Life Imitates Art." Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 27.2 (Summer 1999): 265-273.

Asserting that all art is ultimately about death, suggests that Mishima’s dramatic suicide–a ritualistic Sepukku he had rehearsed his entire artistic life–allowed him to avoid the inevitable body decay he so despised.

Viederman, Milton. "Georges Seurat: A Man Divided" Psychoanalysis & Contemporary Thought 22.1 (Win 1999): 111-148.

Discusses how Seurat’s finished painting reveal a constant struggle to counter and contain fearful and enticing early fantasies encouraged by his father’s troubling and mystifying double life. His development of the divisionist style is seen as a metaphor for a need to separate.

Wanamaker, Melissa C. "William Styron and the Literature of Early Maternal Loss." Psychoanalytic Review 86.3 (June 1999): 403-432.

In his memoir of depression entitled "Darkness Visible," Styron posits "incomplete mourning" as the original cause of his mood disturbance. This paper mines the very rich vein of thinking on the relationship between early loss and creativity.

Zeki, Semir. "Art and Brain." Journal of Consciousness Studies 6.6-7 (June-July 1999): 76-96.

Discussion centers around the concept of the visual brain and its applicability to the function of art. Includes a neurological comparison of 2 different artists.

Appelbaum, Dale Marie. "The Search for Self: Identity Formation among College Art Students of Mexican Descent." Dissertation Abstracts International 59.9-A (March 1999): 3366.

Offers a series of in depth qualitative interviews and observations of three college-level art majors of Mexican descent, and finds the students’ identities to be multi-layered, consisting of gender, sexual, class, artistic, and ethnic identity domains.

Blais, Donald Francis. "Passion and Pathology in Teresa of Avila’s Mystical Transformation With Reference to the Transpersonal Theories of Michael Washburn." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.1-A (July 1999): 0168.

Examines the psychological mechanics of mystical transformation as recorded in the works of Teresa of Avila by focusing on the collective phenomenon of mystical madness. Recourse is made to the transpersonal theories of Michael Washburn.

Caron, Janice J. "The Septuagenarian Female: Critical Events that Shaped a Holocaust Victim as Testifier and Leader. A Single Case Analysis." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.2-B (August, 1999): 0822.

Describes the process by which a septagenarian woman finds expression through testifying as a Holocaust victim and leader.

Causey, Carley Claire. "Utilizing Protocol Analysis for the Study of Emotional and Cognitive Processes Involved in Creating a Work of Art when Created for the Purpose of Self-Expression." Dissertation Abstracts International 59.12-A (June 1999): 4339.

Establishes a philosophical framework with which the information processing of an artist can be empirically evaluated.

Cox, Adam Justin. "Psychological Vulnerability and the Creative Disposition: Etiological Factors Associated with Psychopathology in Visual Artists." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.1-B (July 1999): 0361.

64 fine arts students were assessed using a set of five hypothesized psychological vulnerability variables and four measures of psychopathology including scales for depression, anxiety, psychoticism, and social alienation. Results showed a strong relationship between psychological vulnerability and psychopathology variable sets.

Conover, Robin St. John. "Growing up in Glass Town: An Investigation of Charlotte Bronte’s Individuation through Her Juvenilia." Dissertation Abstracts International, A. 60.6-A (December 1999): 2036.

Read in chronological order, Bronte’s work is shown to illuminate several stages of psychic maturation and to anticipate, in large part, Jung’s system of individuation,

Cristiano, Michael. "De-rolement from Personae among Performing Artists: Implications of Personality Type and Role Type." Dissertation Abstracts International 59.9-B (March 1999): 5149.

Aims to discover if there may be a relationship between specific personality characteristics of individuals and the roles in which they have difficulty in "de-rolement."

Elwell, Donald F. "The Actor Reflects: Passage Events in the Lives of Actors." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.6-A (December 1999): 1834.

Interviews 22 professional actors across the U.S. and explores two central questions: Is there a grammar and a vocabulary of passage or breakthrough events in the lives of actors? If so, what are the circumstances affecting such events?

Francis, Richard Peek. "Inferring Authors’ Personalities through Their Work: Testing Leopold Bellak’s Method." Dissertation Abstracts International 59.12-B (June 1999): 6509.

Three experienced clinical psychologists read 10 Dostoyevky stories, then, using Bellak’s systematic method, wrote psychobiographies including inferences about Dostoyevky’s childhood and youth. Author finds a lack of interrater reliabililty, and concludes, wisely, that psychobiographical research may be hampered by trying to force complex individuals into constricting categories.

Harris, Dudleasa Stacie. "A Phenomenological Study of the Development of Juvenile Delinquency among African-American Girls." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.2-B (August 1999): 0854.

Inspects the lives of 8 African American females between 18-22 years of age, all of whom are on probation. Participants provide a retrospective account of childhood and adolescent delinquent behavior. Common themes and relationships explored.

Hill, Darryl B. "Understanding, Knowing, and Telling Transgender Identities." Dissertation Abstracts International 59.8-B (February 1999): 4537.

Asks 17 male-born and 1 female-born members of southwestern Ontario’s transgendered community about how they came to understand gender, how they came to know of their transgenderedness, and how they narrate the story of their gender. Frequent patterns and metaphors are identified.

Mishra, Vishwa Mohan. "Bipolar Mood Disorders, Creativity and Suicidality of Ernest Hemingway: A Clinical Psychological Study." Dissertation Abstracts International: B 60.2-B (September 1999): 1309.

Explores the idea that bipolar/manic-depressive mood disorders, creativity, and suicide may be functionally related through an analysis of the life and writing of Ernest Hemingway. Kay Jamison has explored similar questions in her book, Touched With Fire.

Pytell, Timothy, Edward. "The Man Who would be King: Viktor Frankl’s Struggle for Meaning." Dissertation Abstracts International 60.1-A (July 1999): 0220.

An intellectual biography of existential psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, the author of Man’s Search for Meaning and the inventor of an existential form of analysis called "logotherapy."

Taylor, H. Jeanie. "Life Stories in Everyday Practice: A Feminist Communication Study of Life Stories at the Bunting Institute, Radcliff College." Dissertation Abstracts International 59.9-A (March 1999): 3289.

Studies 36 creative women’s lives in the context of the developing community of practice at the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College. Looks at both life story interviews and "stories-on-the-fly," naturally occurring life story fragments, and their role in daily interaction at the insitute.

Tucker, Barbara Ann. "Identities: Minds and Bodies in Context." Dissertation Abstracts International 59.7-B (January 1999): 3776.

Focuses on two questions: How do four women frame their identities in the fourth decade of their lives, and what can the researcher learn as a subject who is being researched?

Mishler, Elliot G. Storylines: Craftartists’ Narratives of Identity. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999.

Close reading of transcripts of interviews with 5 craft artists.

Runco, Mark A. (Ed); Pritzker, Steven R. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Creativity, Vol. 1 A-H and Vol. 2 I-Z with Indexes. San Diego: Academic Press, 1999.

Range of articles summarizing theories and perspectives about creativity. Selected biographical studies also included.

Black, Stephen A. Eugene O’Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.

Literay psychobiography of O’Neill’s life, written by professor of English and trained psychoanalyst.

Remnick, David. Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker. New York, NY: Random House, 2000.

The New Yorker has long done concise, typically high quality profiles of the famous and not-so-famous. This book compiles a select group of such mini-biographies culled from the magazine’s first 75 years. Includes sketches of, among many others, Hemingway, Richard Pryor, Marlon Brando, Truman Capote, Maryshnikov, and Johnny Carson.