Abstract
This Special Edition represents the first attempt, to the
best of our knowledge, to explicitly link the traditions
of phenomenology and psychobiography. The decision
to call for papers for this volume was based on our belief
that the phenomenological tradition has much to offer
psychobiographical research. Phenomenology’s emphasis
on lived experience privileges individual voices and
subjective experiences and is thus commensurate with
the fundamental aim of all psychobiographical research,
which is the simultaneously simple yet grandiose task of
understanding the life of a single human being. This
Special Edition sought to bring together scholarship in
psychobiography that made use of the phenomenological
tradition as a lens through which to view individual
lives and experiences...