11 th International Conference on the Dialogical Self, Barcelona, Spain, 10-13 June, 2020 Invited Symposium Title: "Vladimir, Vincent, and Virginia”: Psychobiography and the puzzle of suicide from the lens of Dialogical Self Theory Co-ordinator: Athena Androutsopoulou, PhD E-mail: Athena@androutsoopulou.gr Affiliation: ‘Logo Psychis’- Training and Research Institute for Systemic Psychotherapy, Athens, Greece Discussant: Kia Thanopoulou E-mail: kthanopoulou@gmail.com Affiliation: Family Therapy Unit, Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, Greece There is a recent revival of psychobiography, with approaches other than the psychoanalytic being used as theoretical lenses to study famous persons. There is also increased recognition that psychobiography can advance psychological theory and help improve clinical practice. In the three psychobiography studies of Vladimir Mayakovski, Vincent van Gogh, and Virginia Woolf included in this symposium, the researchers adopt a dial...