Adaptation to LifeHarvard University Press, 1998 M08 11 - 416 páginas 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. |
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George E. Vaillant. Acknowledgments. The Grant Study of Adult Development was conceived in 1937 when I was three years old. I did not join the staff until 1967. In writing this book, then, I have harvested a crop that for three decades ...
... study, all of the men in the Grant Study had achieved good academic standing in a highly competitive liberal arts ... staff were quite unaware of Heinz Hartmann. At the time the Grant Study began, the staff consisted of internists ...
... Study staff had never labeled him mentally ill. Dr. Tarrytown, on the other hand, had no interests beyond his work, and since college, the practice of medicine had been for him a chronic source of anxiety and dissatisfaction. He took no ...
... Study staff when he was nineteen: “My and my father's entire life together had been a tortured relationship. We cordially hated each other." It is clear that the distortions produced by adaptive mechanisms may, over a period of years ...
... study of Yoga and Eastern religions. At no time did he ever tell the staff he was unhappy. Tarrytown was a master at imposing his terms upon life. He bested Goodhart in evading unhappiness. But while unhappiness reflects a failure of ...
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Basic Styles of Adaptation | 73 |
Development Consequences of Adaptation | 193 |
Concluions | 327 |
References Cited | 376 |
A Glossary of Defenses | 383 |
The Interview Schedule | 387 |
The Rating Scales | 389 |