
Volume 32 - Number 3 - Summer 2025
Pages: 261 - 389
Rozentsvit, I. (2025). The psychobiographer’s handbook: A manual and a compass for writing lives [Review of the book The Psychobiographer’s Handbook: A Practical Guide to Research and Ethics by Joseph G. Ponterotto (2025)]. Clio’s Psyche, 32(3), 379-382.
The Psychobiographer’s Handbook: A Manual and a Compass for Writing Lives
Abstract
Joseph G. Ponterotto’s The Psychobiographer’s Handbook is a timely, ethically rigorous guide to the psychological interpretation of individual lives. Aimed at scholars and clinicians, it unites methodological clarity with ethical care and keeps interpretation anchored in socio-cultural-historical context. This review highlights the volume’s integration of theory, method, and reflexivity, its lucid account of the field’s development, and its strong pedagogical design. The book functions as both a manual and a compass.
American Psychological Association (APA), biographical research, book review, ethics, Joseph G. Ponterotto, The Psychobiographer’s Handbook: A Practical Guide to Research and Ethics, psychobiography, psychohistory, reflexivity, research methods, socio-cultural-historical context
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Rozentsvit, I. (2025). The psychobiographer’s handbook: A manual and a compass for writing lives [Review of the book The Psychobiographer’s Handbook: A Practical Guide to Research and Ethics by Joseph G. Ponterotto (2025)]. Clio’s Psyche, 32(3), 379-382.



