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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... fact that grief is part of the human condition—to be faced, expressed, and not denied. I am working hard to understand and to put in perspective their “adaptation to aging.” As they once made me look forward to life after Harvard, they ...
... fact that defenses are healthy more often than they are pathological. I shall be discussing defenses as actual behaviors, affects, and ideas which serve defensive purposes, rather than as theoretical constructs that attempt to describe ...
... fact, he was unusually skilled in describing his feelings. The interview with Dr. Carlton Tarrytown was painfully antiseptic. Tarrytown talked to me in his Fort Lauderdale living room, a room so meticulously decorated that it reminded ...
... facts should speak for themselves. Raised in a blue-collar background, Mr. Goodhart spent his life working for social ... fact, on an adjustment scale that rated the overall mental health of the men in the Study, Mr. Goodhart fell in the ...
... fact, a major thesis of this book is that a man's adaptive devices are as important in determining the course of his life as are his heredity, his upbringing, his social position, or his access to psychiatric help. Mr. Goodhart came ...
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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 |