The following chronology covers part of William McKinley Runyan’s bibliography:

1975—Writes Life histories: A field of inquiry and a framework for intervention as his dissertation for the Program in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice at Harvard University.

1981—His article, “Why did van Gogh cut off his ear? The problem of alternative explanations in psychobiography,” appears in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

1982—Publishes Life Histories and Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method at Oxford University Press.

1988—Publishes Psychology and Historical Interpretation through Oxford University Press.

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1990—Writes “Individual lives and the structure of personality psychology,” which is published in Studying Persons and Lives.

2005—In W. T. Schultz’ Handbook of Psychobiography, writes the chapter “Evolving Conceptions of Psychobiography and the Study of Lives: Encounters with Psychoanalysis, Personality Psychology, and Historical Science.”

TBA—Currently publishing his edited book with Alan C. Elms and Ramsay Bell Breslin titled Examining Lives: Self-Reflections in Psychobiography through Oxford University Press.

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Authors:

James William Anderson

James William Anderson, PhD., is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, a member of the faculty of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, and a clinical psychologist in private practice.  He serves as Editor of the Annual of Psychoanalysis and member of the Editorial Board of Clio’s Psyche.  In addition to his book on psychobiography, he has published psychobiographical papers on William and Henry James, Abraham Lincoln, Edith Wharton, Sigmund Freud, D. W. Winnicott, Henry A. Murray, Woodrow Wilson, and Frank Lloyd Wright.  Email address:

How to Cite This:

Anderson, J. W. (2023). William McKinley Runyan bibliography. In J. W. Anderson, P. H. Elovitz, & N. D’Andria (Eds.), William McKinley Runyan Festschrift. Clio’s Psyche, 30(1), 59-60. https://doi.org/10.70763/7ba0691b7777b6581397456412a41390

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