Professor Emeritus, Clinical and Personality Psychology
Area: Clinical, Personality & Social Contexts

Psychology Office: 2213 East Hall
Psychology Phone: 734-764-5511
Email: gcro@umich.edu

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.