Table of Contents

Preface
Part I: Flight Preparations
1: Come Fly with Me
2: The Shape of a Discipline
3: An American Icarus
4: Henry Murray's Personology
5: All the King's Horses and All the King's Men
6: Freud on Da Vinci: The Rocky Road of Psychobiographic Investigations
Part II: Lift-Off
7: Poor Peter
8: He Played Until His Mother Looked Happy
9: Outside Opinions
10: What Can I Do To Be Forever Known?
11: Attachment and Separation
12: Life at the Intersection
13: May the Force Be With You
14: Carl Jung's Search for Permanence
Part III: Ground Maintenance and Theoretical Adjustments
15: Attachment Revisited
16: Stern's Outside-In Theory of Self-Development
17: Damasio's Inside-Out Theory of Self-Development
18: What's Missing From This Picture
Part IV: Variations on a Theme
19: Dumbo
20: Larry, A Lonely Long Distance Runner
21: Perry Smith
22: Tonka and His Flying Backpack
23: A Lawn Chair and a Phantom Flying Saucer
24: Marc Chagall
25: The Case for Case Studies
Appendix: Women in Flight
Notes
References

Reviews

"Daniel Ogilvie has written and lively and interesting book about the origins and psychological correlates of a common human fantasy theme." --Journal of the Hisory of the Behavioral Sciences
"A book that carries on the fine tradition of psychobiography envisioned by Henry Murray and other early personologists. His book is an interesting mix of general theorizing and engaging psychobiography. I suspect that both students and professional psychologists will be delighted with this book."--Bill Peterson, Smith College
"...Ogilvie constructs his argument for the value of case studies with clever wit, especially in his chapter on women's flight fantasies, revealing the "rough edges" of Mary Poppins that were glossed over in the Disney version." --Choice
"There is every chance that this study can become one of the first classics of twenty-first century psychology...Ogilvie's writing style is clear, readable, colloquial, and filled with humor. He draws the reader in, keeps the reader with him, and makes the reader want to keep going."--James W. Anderson, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Northwestern University
"Daniel Ogilvie has written and lively and interesting book about the origins and psychological correlates of a common human fantasy theme." --Journal of the Hisory of the Behavioral Sciences
"A book that carries on the fine tradition of psychobiography envisioned by Henry Murray and other early personologists. His book is an interesting mix of general theorizing and engaging psychobiography. I suspect that both students and professional psychologists will be delighted with this book."--Bill Peterson, Smith College
"...Ogilvie constructs his argument for the value of case studies with clever wit, especially in his chapter on women's flight fantasies, revealing the "rough edges" of Mary Poppins that were glossed over in the Disney version." --Choice
"There is every chance that this study can become one of the first classics of twenty-first century psychology...Ogilvie's writing style is clear, readable, colloquial, and filled with humor. He draws the reader in, keeps the reader with him, and makes the reader want to keep going."--James W. Anderson, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Northwestern University