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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... pains after his father died of a coronary thrombosis . Adaptive style : hypochondriasis . Lieutenant Edward Keats — Introduced in Chapter 6 . Thomas Sawyer — Rockefeller campaign aide who first was bullied by his mother and then by his ...
... pain of his loss . Although his mother was no longer alive , by shifting his attention he was still able to care for her . There was nothing morbid in the way he told the story ; and because ego mechanisms are uncon- scious , he had no ...
... pains to camouflage the actual details of the subjects ' lives . If the clinical detail fits anyone of the reader's acquaintance too closely , anyone who might have been in college in 1940 , it will almost certainly turn out that he has ...
... pain so that it may be borne . Yet neither process is under anything like full conscious control . Since most people consider writing good poetry to be healthy and suicide to be sick , it is tempting at this point to try to define ...
... pains to buy me a cup of coffee . In manner he was easy , open , relaxed , and warm . Although he made little eye contact , I got no feeling that Mr. Goodhart was cold- only shy . " Everything that I do , " he said , " depends upon a ...
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 |