Fantasies of Flight

Name: Fantasies of Flight
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ISBN: 9780195157468

ISBN-10: 019515746X

ISBN-13: 9780195157468

Edition: 2003

Authors: Daniel M. Ogilvie

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Fantasies of Flight invigorates the field of personality psychology by challenging the contemporary academic view that individuals are best studied as carriers of traits. Daniel Ogilvie exchanges a heart-to-heart, case study approach to understanding human behaviour for the current strategies of categorizing and comparing individuals according to their manifest traits. Ogilvie asks and endeavours to answer questions like "What were the psychological conditions that led Sir James Barrie to create a character named Peter Pan?", and "What were the dynamics behind the Marshall Herff Applewhite's conviction that a space ship, hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet, would rescue him and his Heaven's…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/11/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




Flight Preparations



Come Fly with Me



The Shape of a Discipline



An American Icarus



Henry Murray's Personology



All the King's Horses and All the King's Men



Freud on Da Vinci: The Rocky Road of Psychobiographic Investigations



Lift-Off



Poor Peter



He Played until His Mother Looked Happy



Outside Opinions



What Can I Do to Be Forever Known?



Attachment and Separation



Life at the Intersection



May the Force Be with You



Carl Jung's Search for Permanence



Ground Maintenance and Theoretical Adjustments



Attachment Revisited



Stern's Outside-In Theory of Self-Development



Damasio's Inside-Out Theory of Self-Development



What's Missing from this Picture?



Variations on a Theme



Dumbo



Larry, a Lonely Long-Distance Runner



Perry Smith



Tonka and His Flying Backpack



A Lawn Chair and a Phantom Flying Saucer



Marc Chagall



The Case for Case Studies



Women in Flight


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