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PubMed2006

Computers, criminals, an eccentric billionaire, and APA: a brief autobiography.

In this invited autobiographical account, I sum up what life has been like for me personally and professionally. For most of the first 50 years of my life, I lived in Alabama. During my years at the University of Alabama, my professional activities included developing a computer-based system to interpret the MMPI (Hathaway & McKinley, 1943), managing a national and international continuing education program for psychologists, involvement in a class action suit that resulted in the deinstitutionalization of Alabama's mental hospitals, organizing a team of professionals to reclassify all of the inmates of Alabama's prison system, and conducting a psychological autopsy on Howard Hughes. I was the American Psychological Association (APA) president in 1988 and served from 1989 to 2003 as APA Chief Executive Officer. Since my time at APA, I have been engaged in work with international psychological organizations.

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PubMed1998

Nietzsche, autobiography, history: mourning and Martin and John.

How might gay and lesbian literature be read not as a mimetic representation of homosexuality, but as an activity linked to problems of subjectivity and historiography? Reading Dale Peck's novel Martin and John alongside passages from Friedrich Nietzsche's "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life" and Sigmund Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia," this essay argues for an understanding of Peck's text as an attempt to link two apparently different processes of import to contemporary gay male subjects in particular: the writing of what Nietzsche terms "critical history," and the mourning of those lost to HIV disease. It concludes by linking Martin and John to feminist critiques of identity and traditional historiography, as well as noting the connection between these two critiques.

Famous Persons↗
PubMed1988

Autobiography: the negotiation of a lifetime.

Throughout reminiscence and life review literature there is a prevailing tendency to interpret studies in a developmentalist perspective. Another approach to consider is the interpretive. It not only incorporates the former's insight, but also attempts to explain its inconsistencies by examining the other equally important factors operating in these studies. Following a discussion of both the developmentalist and the interpretive approach, I examine a number of studies on reminiscence and the life review. This study uses the interpretive approach, particularly Goffman's dramaturgical approach, to further understand the objective of reminiscence and to see how the social element emphasized by the interpretive approach can in fact be the deciding factor in the consequent adjustment or maladjustment of the older person.

Autobiographies as Topic↗
PubMed1975

The Clifford Irving hoax of the Howard Hughes autobiography.

The problem was to determine whether Howard R. Hughes, Edith Irving, or Clifford Irving wrote the questioned material Exhibits Q-1 through Q-35. The findings were as follows. 1. Howard R. Hughes was eliminated as the possible writer of the questioned handwriting on Exhibits Q-1 through Q-35. Although there were pictorial resemblances between Hughes' handwriting and the questioned material enumerated above, significant characteristic differences were also present which unequivocally eliminated him as the writer. 2. Edith Irving was identified as the writer of the "Edith Sommer for deposit only" endorsement on Exhibit Q-11. 3. Edith Irving also very probably wrote the "Hanne Rosenkrantz" on Exhibit Q-27 through Q-34, but the questioned writings were restricted to the examination of poor quality photocopies which did not provide proper basis for the handwriting comparison. 4. There were indications that Edith Irving also may have written the questioned endorsement "H. R. Hughes" on Exhibit Q-3 and the questioned signatures "H. R. Hughes" on Exhibits Q-4, Q-5, Q-6, Q-7, and Q-35, by simulating the handwriting of Howard R. Hughes on those questioned exhibits. She could not be identified, however, based on the available handwriting specimens obtained from the federal grand jury on 8 Feb. 1972. 5. Clifford Irving was identified as the writer of the questioned material on Exhibits Q-1, Q-2, Q-8, Q-9, Q-12a and Q-13a and Q-13b, Q-14, Q-15a through Q-15c, Q-16a and Q-16b, Q-22a through Q-22i, Q-23, Q-24, Q-25, and Q-26. A study of the questioned handwriting with the known handwriting of Howard R. Hughes revealed a definite attempt on the part of Irving to simulate the handwriting of Hughes, having seen Hughes' writing in earlier issues of Time-Life.

Crime↗
PubMed1993

[Freud, the biography, his autobiography and his biographers].

Freud has a dual attitude to the biographical genre. When he places himself in the position of psychoanalyst-biographer of others, he is enthusiastic, speaking of ground to be conquered for psychoanalysis, and his works, as well as his correspondence, show that he continued to devote himself to investigations which resulted in interpretations of a number of personalities, the most detailed of which dealt with Leonardo de Vinci, Goethe, Dostoyevsky, President Wilson, and Moses. On the other hand, even though during the first years of the discovery of psychoanalysis he allowed himself, in a more or less veiled manner, confidences of an autobiographical nature, Freud remained very secretive about himself. He limited himself to making public only the routine information found on his university resume or the details of his life directly related to the discovery and the development of psychoanalysis. Hidden behind die Sache, the Cause, the man always vigorously defended himself against those who, braving the periodical destruction to which he subjected his archives, claimed to apply to him this "investigative drive" whose heuristic richness he otherwise celebrated. It is by means of fantasies of identification to the work, present in every biographical attempt, that we attempt to address here the contradictions of this dual attitude.

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