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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... person's life should we examine in order to find health? Certainly, the more sophisticated and sensitive we become, the more unmeasurable become our criteria. Frank Barron's early studies of creativity postulated that healthy persons ...
... person one loves and to love one's work."8 One of the soundest men in the Study agreed with Tolstoy; he wrote, "I am ... person's "dealings with other people." He believed that a healthy man would succeed in "reaching his own goals and ...
... person's external behavior, it becomes much easier to validate clinical judgment. In looking for and interpreting adaptive styles, error is bound to occur and personal bias to show. In part, trying to fathom the adaptive purposes of ...
... person can disavow responsibility for painful feelings and events, and over the short haul escape the suffering involved. With dissociation, internal pain is ingeniously denied or anesthetized and a happier state put in its place. Dr ...
... person has, but does not wish to acknowledge, are assigned to someone else, which is why the paranoid is a problem to everybody but himself. When Dr. Tarrytown was in trouble, he was the last to know. In contrast, Mr. Goodhart had ...
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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 |