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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... Ernest Cl0vis—Professor of medieval French whose wife, then his daughter, became chronically ill. Adaptive style: sublimation and suppression. Chapter 7 Mayor Timothy Jeflers0n—Long Island politician whose daughter had Cast of Protagonists.
... chronic alcoholism, then recovered. Adaptive style: evolution from reaction formation and intellectualization to passive aggression and acting out, which in turn evolved into sublimation and altruism. Francis DeMille—Hartford ...
... chronic failure, and did not enjoy his marriage. Adaptive style: displacement. Chapter 13 Samuel Lovelace-Introduced in Chapter 8. William Lucky/—Introduced in Chapter 8. Oliver Kane—Introduced in Chapter 10. Chapter 14 Francis Oswald ...
... chronic source of anxiety and dissatisfaction. He took no vacations, and instead, during crises in his life, would engage in spree drinking. He used all kinds of tranquilizing medication, always to excess. On three occasions he had ...
... chronic fear and anxiety due to the impulsive behavior of their alcoholic fathers. Second, when they formed their own families, each was haunted by his own experience of poor parental care; in both cases it may have contributed to ...
Contenido
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 |