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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... wife, Caroline Officer Vaillant. Over the years she has made an invaluable contribution to this book as research associate and intellectual critic and editor. She has always shown an uncanny ability to ask the right questions and for ...
... Wives, and Children 303 PART FOUR: Conclusions 327 15. The Maturing Ego 329 I6. What Is Mental Health—A Reprise 351 17. A Summary 368 References Cited 376 Appendix A: A Glossary of Defenses 383 Appendix B: The Interview Schedule 387 ...
... wife of another man shouted at me over the telephone, “You sit back watching a man dying of alcoholism . . . and do nothing.” Yet both men have continued to contribute to the Study. Over the last twenty-five years, of course, there have ...
... 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.
... wife. Adaptive style: passive aggression and displacement. Chapter 10 Robert J0rdan—A college conservative who became a fifty-year-old liberal. Adam Carson, M.D. —Harvard physician who turned from research to clinical practice and ...
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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 |