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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... seemed healthy . This book will describe their lives over the thirty - five years that followed . The men of the Grant Study , as it came to be called , did not all live happily ever after , but their experiences have meaning for us all ...
... seemed to adapt skillfully and to succeed at many of life's tasks in a most moral and self - effacing fash- ion . The adaptive devices of the other man repeatedly caused both himself and others considerable distress . For his devotion ...
... seemed to know how to play . Ever since college he had enjoyed his job . Although a heavy smoker , he drank in moderation and had never used tranquilizers . He had never sought psychotherapy , and the Study staff had never labeled him ...
... seemed like a good idea at the time , " or " I did what everyone does . " Sometimes , like the lawyer in the introduction , he notes that he uses such mechanisms but labels them incorrectly . The quality of their childhoods should be an ...
... seemed to use the same general style of adaptation that Goodhart described most succinctly : " I do what a child does : I turn my attention away . " In adolescence , each had responded to his unhappy childhood by resolving to devote his ...
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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 |