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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... psychiatrist who has contributed significantly to our understanding of psychological health. He suggested that "the articles and books written on [health] are numerous but highly repetitive. . . . Most of the discussions are theoretical ...
... psychiatrists (projection, repression, and sublimation are some well-known examples). The generic term for such adaptive styles as a class is ego mechanisms of defense. In such context the word ego represents a reification of the ...
... psychiatrist observes during play therapy. Because of their relatively high intelligence and education, the men in the Grant Study had a great deal of freedom in regard to both career choice and life-style. Thus, by the age of fifty ...
... psychiatrist, I pretend, like so many of my profession, to belong to no "school," but it may not take the reader long to realize that I am trained as a psychoanalyst and am a staunch admirer of Adolf Meyer and Erik Erikson. Less obvious ...
... psychiatrist. Although this book is primarily concerned with psychological well-being, it is impossible to discuss the relative psychological health of these two men without also comparing their subjective view of their physical health ...
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 |