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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... tion to aging . ” As they once made me look forward to life after Harvard , they now make me look forward to life after seventy . Oh , and yes , the book that Mr. Goodhart requested is in preparation , but its publication is a few years ...
... tion ) ; 4. to handle unresolvable conflicts with people , living or dead , whom one cannot bear to leave ( e.g. , the lawyer's wife , the hematologist's mother ) ; 5. to survive major conflicts with conscience ( e.g. , kill- ing in ...
... tion was security , not public service . Not only was his occupa- tional success inferior to that of his father , but he was also a failure in his own eyes . Outside of his professional duties , he had no responsibilities . In fact , on ...
... tion for which he sought or required medical attention . Dr. Tar- rytown , on the other hand , had been hospitalized twice for medi- cal reasons ; he did not usually perceive his health as excellent , and he regularly missed more than ...
... tion , the childhoods of all the men in the Study were rated by research assistants who were kept blind to ( unaware of ) other variables ; several facets of childhood were assessed , and the more important findings will be discussed in ...
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 |