Adaptation to Life

Name: Adaptation to Life
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ISBN: 9780674004146

ISBN-10: 0674004140

ISBN-13: 9780674004146

Edition: 1995

Authors: George E. Vaillant

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Between 1939 and 1942, one of America's leading universities recruited 268 of its healthiest and most promising undergraduates to participate in a revolutionary new study of the human life cycle. The originators of the program, which came to be known as the Grant Study, felt that medical research was too heavily weighted in the direction of disease, and their intent was to chart the ways in which a group of promising individuals coped with their lives over the course of many years. Nearly forty years later, George E. Vaillant, director of the Study, took the measure of the Grant Study men. The result was the compelling, provocative classic, Adaptation to Life, which poses fundamental…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 8/11/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

He is a widely respected researcher, psychiatrist & professor at the Harvard Medical School. He is also the author of several books, including The Wisdom of the Ego, The Natural History of Alcoholism & Adaption to Life. He is considered one of the world's foremost authorities on aging.



Preface, 1995


Cast of Protagonists



The Study of Mental Health: Methods and Illustrations


Introduction



Mental Health



The Men of the Grant Study



How They Were Studied



Health Redefined-The Joyful Expression of Sex and of Anger



Basic Styles of Adaptation



Adaptive Ego Mechanisms-A Hierarchy



Sublimation



Suppression, Anticipation, Altruism, and Humor



The Neurotic Defenses



The Immature Defenses



Developmental Consequences of Adaptation



The Adult Life Cycle-In One Culture



Paths into Health



Successful Adjustment



The Child Is Father to the Man



Friends, Wives, and Children



Conclusions



The Maturing Ego



What Is Mental Health-A Reprise



A Summary


References Cited



A Glossary of Defenses



The Interview Schedule



The Rating Scales