Background
Vaillant, George Eman was born on June 16, 1934 in New York City. Son of George Clapp and Mary Suzannah (Beck) Vaillant.
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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. Nearly forty years later, George E. Vaillant, director of the Study, took the measure of the Grant Study men. The result was the compelling, provocative classic, Adaptation to Life, which poses fundamental questions about the individual differences in confronting life's stresses. Why do some of us cope so well with the portion life offers us, while others, who have had similar advantages (or disadvantages), cope badly or not at all? Are there ways we can effectively alter those patterns of behavior that make us unhappy, unhealthy, and unwise? George Vaillant discusses these and other questions in terms of a clearly defined scheme of "adaptive mechanisms" that are rated mature, neurotic, immature, or psychotic, and illustrates, with case histories, each method of coping.
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One of America's preeminent psychiatrists draws on his famous Study of Adult Development to give us an exhilarating look at how the mind's defenses work. What we see as the mind's trickery, George Vaillant tells us, is actually healthy. What's more, it can reveal the mind at its most creative and mature, soothing and protecting us in the face of unbearable reality, managing the unmanageable, ordering disorder. And because creativity is so intrinsic to this alchemy of the ego, Vaillant mingles his studies of obscure lives with psychobiographies of famous artists and others--including Florence Nightingale, Sylvia Plath, Anna Freud, and Eugene O'Neill.
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When The Natural History of Alcoholism was first published in 1983, it was acclaimed in the press as the single most important contribution to the literature on alcoholism since the first edition of Alcoholic Anonymous's Big Book. George Vaillant took on the crucial questions of whether alcoholism is a symptom or a disease, whether it is progressive, whether alcoholics differ from others before the onset of their alcoholism, and whether alcoholics can safely drink. Based on an evaluation of more than 600 individuals followed for over forty years, Vaillant's monumental study offered new and authoritative answers to all of these questions. In this updated version of his classic book Vaillant returns to the same subjects with the perspective gained from fifteen years of further follow-up. Alcoholics who had been studied to age 50 in the earlier book have now reached age 65 and beyond, and Vaillant reassesses what we know about alcoholism in light of both their experiences and the many new studies of the disease by other researchers. The result is a sharper focus on the nature and course of this devastating disorder as well as a sounder foundation for the assessment of various treatments.
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Vaillant, George Eman was born on June 16, 1934 in New York City. Son of George Clapp and Mary Suzannah (Beck) Vaillant.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1955; Doctor of Medicine Harvard University, 1959; postgraduate, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, 1967-1976.
Resident in psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, 1960-1963; from assistant professor to associate professor psychiatry, Tufts U. School Medicine, 1966-1971; associate professor psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 1971-1977; professor, Harvard Medical School, 1977-1982, 93-; director training, Cambridge (Massachusetts) Hospital, 1976-1981; director training, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, 1981-1983; professor, Dartmouth School Medicine, 1983-1992. Director study of adult development Harvard University Health Services, since 1972.
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( Between 1939 and 1942, one of America's leading univers...)
(One of America's preeminent psychiatrists draws on his fa...)
Served with United States Public Health Service, 1963-1965. Fellow American Psychiatric Association. Member Boston Psychoanalytic Society.
Married Caroline Brown, April 17, 1971. Children: George Emery, John Holden, Henry Greenough, Anne Liberty, Caroline Joanna.
