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P Psychobiography Introduction Joseph G. Ponterotto Fordham University, New York, NY, USA Psychobiography has been linked to the study of personality and individual differences for millennia.

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Historians of psychobiography trace its origins to early biographies, such as Plutarch’s (roughly 50–120 AD) study of Greek and Roman statespersons and Vasari’s (1511–1574) profiles of great artists of the Renaissance period. Another foundation for psychobiography is the study of saints and religious leaders, known as hagiography.

Some hagiographies are chiefly idolizing profiles of saints with the goal of edification of the religiously faithful. On the other hand, “critical hagiography” focuses on more rigorous historiographic research methods to accurately profile the lives of saints and religious leaders (Ponterotto 2015).

Psychobiography became closely associated with the field of psychology at the turn of the twentieth century when Sigmund Freud began applying his analytic metho