Professor Emeritus of Psychology
gcro@umich.edu
Office Information:
2213 East Hall
phone: 734.764.5511
Personality & Social Contexts;
Clinical Science;
Psychology
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Yale University
About
My research interests include: the case study method for interpreting life stories; reconstructing subjectivity from interviews and documents; multiple case studies; psychobiography; psychoanalysis; and individual development in society and culture. I am also interested in the logic of interpretation and in qualitative research.
Representative Publications
- On the psychological costs of upward social mobility. In D. P. McAdams, R. Josselson, and A. Lieblich (Eds.). Turns in the road: Narrative studies of lives in transition. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2001, pp. 91-119. (With Scott Roberts).
- Making Whole: Method and ethics in mainstream and narrative psychology. Narrative Study of Lives, 1996, 4, 245-274.
- Storied Lives: The cultural politics of self-understanding. Yale University Press, 1992. (With R. Ochberg).
- A Moment's monument: The psychology of keeping a diary. Narrative Study of Lives, 1992, 1, 30-58. (with Wendy Wiener).
- A theory of multiple-case research. Journal of Personality, 1988, 56, 239-264.
