PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY Synonyms: 15 Similar Words

psychobiography

noun

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as in biography

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Recent Examples of psychobiography First Freud’s patient in the 1920s, in 1930 Bullitt also became his collaborator, co-writing a dubious psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson. — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022 And so, duly catering to the market, the book is presented as a psychobiography of the author’s uncle, whose military academy class photo adorns the cover. — Anne Diebel, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2020 Esa-Pekka Salonen, in his stirring performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thursday night at Symphony Center, treated it as a masterpiece of pure music, rather than as musical psychobiography. — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018 Some commentators attempted to bridge this gap by indulging in dubious psychobiography posing as criticism. — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2017 Such speculation makes psychobiography sound like little more than psychobabble. — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 2 June 2017

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One of the many clever strokes in Andrew O’Hagan’s 2024 novel Caledonian Road was casting his floundering, public intellectual hero as the author of a best-selling biography of Johannes Vermeer.

— Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
The Boundless Biddy Mason is simultaneously the biography of an individual, of a community, and of a city in its formative years.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

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The worst security failure in the country’s history raised troubling questions about whether the financial lifeline helped to sustain Hamas’s grip on power and, in turn, enabled it to carry out the assault.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
Speed is now free, which means, for the first time in history, speed is worthless.

— Matt Alt, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026

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