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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... Career Investigator Grant Program of the National Institute of Mental Health and Douglas Bond and Philip Sapir of the Grant Foundation. My patient chiefs of service, Paul Myerson and then John Mack, and my institutional hosts, Dana ...
... career consolidation are distributed more equitably within the American population than are advantages that accrue simply as a result of social class or gender bias. (These findings have been published in Wisdom of the Ego, Harvard ...
... career has been consolidated through studying their lives. I am now a grandparent and many of them are great-grandparents. I have reinterviewed a number of them at their fiftieth reunions and have noted that perhaps some of their “power ...
... -sections out of the young manhood of a tiny sample of our species; they must be watched and studied through their entire careers."S In the first year after its bottling, 4 The Study of Mental Health: Methods and Illustrations.
George E. Vaillant. their entire careers."S In the first year after its bottling, you cannot savor the true quality of a fine Bordeaux. Thirty more years have passed, and the men continue to participate in the research with astonishing ...
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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 |