- George Eman Vaillant
George Eman Vaillant, M.D. (born 1934) is an American
psychiatrist andProfessor atHarvard Medical School and Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry, [http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ Brigham and Women's Hospital] . Dr. Vaillant has spent his research career charting adult development and the recovery process ofschizophrenia ,heroin addiction,alcoholism , andpersonality disorder . He has spent the last 30 years as Director of the Study of Adult Development at the [http://huhs.harvard.edu/ Harvard University Health Service] . The study has prospectively charted the lives of 824 men and women for over 60 years.Biography
A graduate of Harvard College and
Harvard Medical School , Dr. Vaillant did his residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and completed his psychoanalytic training at the [http://bostonpsa.org/ Boston Psychoanalytic Institute] . He has been a Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and has been an invited speaker and consultant for seminars and workshops throughout the world. A major focus of his work in the past has been to develop ways of studying defense mechanisms empirically; more recently, he has been interested in successful aging.Awards
Dr. Vaillant has received the Foundations Fund Prize for Research in Psychiatry from the
American Psychiatric Association , the Strecker Award from ThePennsylvania Hospital , the Burlingame Award fromThe Institute for Living , and theJellinek Award for research inalcoholism . Most recently he received the research prize of theInternational Psychogeriatric Society [http://www.ipa-online.org/ipaonlinev3/home/default.asp] .Books
*Vaillant, GE (1977), "Adaptation to Life", Boston, MA, Little, Brown, 1977 (also Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Hardcover, 396pp ISBN: 0316895202) [also German, Korean and Chinese translations] (Reprinted with a new preface in 1995 by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA)
*Vaillant, GE (1983), "Natural History of Alcoholism", Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press
*Vaillant, GE (1992), "Ego Mechanisms of Defense: A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers", Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press
*Vaillant, GE (1993), "The Wisdom of the Ego", Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, ISBN: 0674953738
*Vaillant, GE (1995), "The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited ", Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, [also (Brazilian) Portuguese translation]
*Vaillant, GE (2002), "Aging Well", Boston, Little Brown, ISBN 0-316-09007-7
*Vaillant, GE (2008), "Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith ", Broadway Books, ISBN-10: 0767926579Further reading
*"Conversation with George Vaillant." "Addiction". 2005 Mar; 100 (3):274-80.
* [http://www.divisiononaddictions.org/html/reprints/vaillant.htm Interview: A Doctor Speaks] . "AA Grapevine Magazine", May 2001, Vol. 57, No. 12.ee also
*Defense mechanisms
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