pathographers

Noun

pathographer (plural pathographers)

1. A biographer who focuses on the negative aspects of their subject's life.
   • Thus it becomes understandable that this champion of compassion is described as an obstinate, violent, distrustful man, quick to condemn; even by his pathographer, Moebius, who loved him personally.1956, Eduard Hitschmann, Sydney G. Margolin, Great Men: Psychoanlytic Studies, page 63
2. One who writes about the lived experience of illness or pathology.
   • The pathographer does not just record his or her suffering and patienthood: the pathographer forces that medical understanding of the body as a biological entity into conflict with another understanding, or, to put it in another way, assays to read that biomedical knowledge through another form of...1992, Meridian: The La Trobe University English Review
3. One who interprets art in terms of the psychological issues of the artist.
   • When a pathographer attempts to discuss intention, he must not neglect this aspect of intention, that is to say, the needs, dictates, strictures, and seductions of the work of art itself—its form, its own internal structure.1985, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art: PPA., page 18