Adaptation to LifeHarvard University Press, 2012 M08 1 - 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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... conflict " ; 6 but cannot healthy behavior be the result of ingenious response to conflict ? The possibilities for debate are endless . To pose the question differently , what facet of a person's life should we examine in order to find ...
... conflict , engage in unconscious but often creative behavior . These intrapsychic styles of adaptation have been given individual names by psychiatrists ( projection , repres- sion , and sublimation are some well - known examples ) ...
... conflict . The reader may scoff at these examples and wonder how they could occur in the lives of healthy people . But ego mechanisms of defense imply a dynamic restorative process , and by no means connote the abnormal . Rather ...
George E. Vaillant. Conflict may arise between just two or among all four of these sources of human motivation . Usually ... conflict . As a student of their behavior , I knew little of the subjects ' dreams , their unconscious fantasies ...
... conflict with other people , he was devastated by social anxiety . Even the intimacy of normal friendship was more than he could comfortably bear . Thus , like many men who engineer multiple affairs and mar- riages , he felt most ...
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 |