Editing Psychobiography (section)

==Methodology==
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The discipline of psychobiography has developed various methodological guidelines for psychobiographical study. Some of the most prominent are these:

# The use of prototypical scenes in the life of the subject to serve as a model of their personality pattern<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=A |first1=Jareño Gómez |last2=C |first2=Chiclana Actis |last3=C |first3=Noriega García |date=2019-11-20 |title=Qualitative Methodology: Psychobiography |url=https://crimsonpublishers.com/index.php |journal=Psychology and Psychotherapy: Research Study |language=English |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=1–6}}</ref>
# The use of a series of indicators of salience, markers such as primacy, frequency, and uniqueness of an event in a life, to identify significant patterns<ref name=":0" />
# The identification of pregnant [[metaphor]]s or images that organize autobiographical narratives
# Logical coherence or consistency as a criterion for adequate psychological interpretations

Scholars untrained in the discipline who do not follow these guidelines continue to produce psychobiographical studies.