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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... definition of projection. The issue is not liberalism versus conservatism, but the disparity between public and private man~ ifestations of empathy and humaneness . . .. I wondered if you shouldn't have put more emphasis on the ...
... definitions of health — especially of mental health —are relative. I have taken the position that since good health can ... definition, then, "healthy" will not be "average." But from whose vantage point should mental health be judged ...
... definitions cannot be systematically applied to real people. Like beauty, the perception of such abstractions too often lies in the eyes of the beholder. In providing mankind with a working definition of mental health, Leo Tolstoy, a ...
... define mental health. But wait. Terms like “health" and “sickness" are merely useful abstractions. Although I use them in discussing adaptation, the reader will not always agree with my definitions. On the one hand, imaginary physical ...
... defined in Appendix A; in this chapter, argot will be translated into English.) For troubled individuals, both sublimation and altruism can achieve the alchemist's dream of turning dross into gold. Mr. Goodhart had such a gift: he ...
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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 |