George Eman Vaillant
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- Doctorate Medicine Harvard University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Eman Vaillant is an American psychiatrist and Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Vaillant has spent his research career charting adult development and the recovery process of schizophrenia, heroin addiction, alcoholism, and personality disorder. Through 2003, he spent 30 years as Director of the Study of Adult Development at the Harvard University Health Service. The study has prospectively charted the lives of 724 men and women for over 60 years.
George Eman Vaillant's Published Works
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Published Works
- Adaptation to Life (1977) (1316)
- Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70 (2005) (1299)
- A systematic review of the mortality of depression. (1999) (717)
- Pessimistic explanatory style is a risk factor for physical illness: a thirty-five-year longitudinal study. (1988) (621)
- The Big Five Personality Traits and the Life Course: A 45-Year Longitudinal Study (1999) (496)
- LIFE EVENT STRESS, SOCIAL SUPPORT, COPING STYLE, AND RISK OF PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPAIRMENT (1978) (461)
- Theoretical hierarchy of adaptive ego mechanisms: a 30-year follow-up of 30 men selected for psychological health. (1971) (449)
- The Natural History of Alcoholism (1996) (437)
- Adaptive mental mechanisms. Their role in a positive psychology. (2000) (429)
- Some psychologic vulnerabilities of physicians. (1972) (411)
- Ego Mechanisms of Defense: A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers (1992) (344)
- An empirically validated hierarchy of defense mechanisms. (1986) (333)
- The wisdom of the ego (1993) (320)
- What can long-term follow-up teach us about relapse and prevention of relapse in addiction? (1988) (316)
- PROSPECTIVE PREDICTION OF SCHIZOPHRENIC REMISSION. (1964) (307)
- A 20-year follow-up of New York narcotic addicts. (1973) (301)
- Ego mechanisms of defense and personality psychopathology. (1994) (292)
- A 60-year follow-up of alcoholic men. (2003) (290)
- Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development (2002) (284)
- The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited (1995) (259)
- Natural history of male psychological health. V. The relation of choice of ego mechanisms of defense to adult adjustment. (1976) (233)
- Natural history of male alcoholism. IV. Paths to recovery. (1982) (221)
- Is the U-curve of marital satisfaction an illusion? A 40-year study of marriage. (1993) (217)
- A 50-year prospective study of the psychological sequelae of World War II combat. (1995) (214)
- A long-term follow-up of male alcohol abuse. (1996) (206)
- The Natural History of Alcoholism: Causes, Patterns, and Paths to Recovery (1985) (202)
- Expert consensus on characteristics of wisdom: a Delphi method study. (2010) (200)
- Childhood social environment, emotional reactivity to stress, and mood and anxiety disorders across the life course (2010) (193)
- Physicians' use of mood-altering drugs. A 20-year follow-up report. (1970) (180)
- Delinquency and mortality: A 50-year follow-up study of 1,000 delinquent and nondelinquent boys. (2000) (178)
- Natural history of male psychological health: IX. Empirical evidence for Erikson's model of the life cycle. (1980) (177)
- A twelve-year follow-up of New York narcotic addicts. I. The relation of treatment to outcome. (1966) (167)
- Natural history of male psychological health, XII: a 45-year study of predictors of successful aging at age 65. (1990) (166)
- THE PREDICTION OF RECOVERY IN SCHIZOPHRENIA (1962) (159)
- The etiology of alcoholism: a prospective viewpoint. (1982) (158)
- Natural history of male psychological health, X: Work as a predictor of positive mental health. (1981) (158)
- Natural history of male psychologic health: effects of mental health on physical health. (1979) (150)
- A debate on DSM-III. (1984) (129)
- A twelve-year follow-up of New York narcotic addicts: IV. Some characteristics and determinants of abstinence. (1966) (124)
- A 12-year follow-up of New York narcotic addicts. 3. Some social and psychiatric characteristics. (1966) (123)
- Maturity of ego defenses in relation to DSM-III axis II personality disorder. (1985) (122)
- Do Formal Religious Participation and Spiritual Perceptions Have Independent Linkages with Diverse Dimensions of Psychological Well-Being?∗ (2009) (117)
- Positive mental health: is there a cross‐cultural definition? (2012) (117)
- Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure? (2005) (111)
- Twelve-year follow-up of New York narcotic addicts. II. The natural history of a chronic disease. (1966) (110)
- Narcotic Addiction in Males and Females: a Comparison1 (1966) (109)
- Empirical studies of ego mechanisms of defense (1986) (109)
- Natural history of male psychological health. II. Some antecedents of healthy adult adjustment. (1974) (107)
- Childhood sibling relationships as a predictor of major depression in adulthood: a 30-year prospective study. (2007) (106)
- Intimacy motivation and psychosocial adjustment: a longitudinal study. (1982) (105)
- The overview effect: Awe and self-transcendent experience in space flight. (2016) (102)
- Sociopathy as a human process. A viewpoint. (1975) (101)
- How lower- and working-class youth become middle-class adults: the association between ego defense mechanisms and upward social mobility. (1985) (98)
- Resilient children as adults: A 40-year study. (1987) (98)
- A validity study of axis II of DSM-III. (1985) (98)
- Natural history of male psychological health: VIII. Antecedents of alcololism and "orality". (1980) (98)
- Field trial of a diagnostic axis for defense mechanisms for DSM-IV. (1998) (97)
- Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys (2005) (95)
- Predicting alcoholism and personality disorder in a 33-year longitudinal study of children of alcoholics. (1988) (87)
- AN HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE REMITTING SCHIZOPHRENIAS. (1964) (87)
- The beginning of wisdom is never calling a patient a borderline; or, the clinical management of immature defenses in the treatment of individuals with personality disorders. (1992) (85)
- The Washington University Sentence Completion Test compared with other measures of adult ego development. (1987) (82)
- Strengths and Satisfaction Across the Adult Lifespan (2003) (81)
- Exposure to Parental Alcoholism During Childhood and Outcome in Adulthood: A Prospective Longitudinal Study (1986) (79)
- Involuntary coping mechanisms: a psychodynamic perspective (2011) (75)
- A 10-year followup of remitting schizophrenics. (1978) (73)
- Are social supports in late midlife a cause or a result of successful physical ageing? (1998) (72)
- Vulnerability to schizophrenia. Prediction of adult schizophrenia using childhood information. (1984) (72)
- Natural history of male psychological health. XI: Escape from the underclass. (1984) (70)
- A prospective study of church attendance and health over the lifespan. (2009) (69)
- Prospective Study of Alcoholism Treatment (1983) (69)
- Prescription opioid use among older adults with arthritis or low back pain. (2006) (64)
- What is a case? A 45-year study of psychiatric impairment within a college sample selected for mental health. (1988) (64)
- Does depression generate negative life events? (1997) (63)
- Natural history of male psychological health: VI. Correlates of successful marriage and fatherhood. (1978) (63)
- Lives of Promise: What Becomes of High School Valedictorians. (1998) (61)
- Adaptive midlife defense mechanisms and late-life health. (2013) (61)
- Antecedents and consequences of negative life events in adulthood: a longitudinal study. (1996) (60)
- A comparison of antagonists of physostigmine-induced suppression of behavior. (1967) (59)
- Social/emotional intelligence and midlife resilience in schoolboys with low tested intelligence. (2000) (59)
- Coping and Defending: Processes of Self-Environment Organization (1978) (57)
- The natural history of narcotic drug addiction. (1970) (56)
- Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study (2012) (56)
- The Disadvantages of DSM-III Outweigh Its Advantages (1984) (54)
- THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE REMITTING SCHIZOPHRENIAS. (1963) (52)
- Natural history of male alcoholism V: is alcoholism the cart or the horse to sociopathy? (1983) (52)
- Successful aging. (2001) (49)
- Natural History of Male Psychological Health, IV: What Kinds of Men Do Not Get Psychosomatic Illness (1978) (49)
- The natural history of alcoholism and its relationship to liver transplantation. (1997) (48)
- Alcohol Use Across the Life Course: A Critical Review of 70 Years of International Longitudinal Research (1990) (47)
- Childhood Pathology and Later Adjustment: The Question of Prediction (1980) (47)
- Triumphs of Experience (2012) (46)
- Antecedents of Personality Disorders in a Community Sample of Men (1988) (46)
- The natural history of male mental health: health and religious involvement. (2008) (46)
- A 50-year longitudinal study of defense use among inner city men: a validation of the DSM-IV defense axis. (1998) (46)
- Midlife Eriksonian psychosocial development: Setting the stage for late-life cognitive and emotional health. (2016) (44)
- Mental health. (2003) (44)
- Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith (2008) (43)
- PARENT‐CHILD CULTURAL DISPARITY AND DRUG ADDICTION (1966) (42)
- Determinants and Consequences of Creativity in a Cohort of Gifted Women (1990) (42)
- Anonymity, neutrality, and confidentiality in the actual methods of Sigmund Freud: a review of 43 cases, 1907-1939. (1998) (42)
- Prospective study of alcoholism treatment. Eight-year follow-up. (1983) (41)
- Natural history of male psychologic health. I. The adult life cycle from 18-50. (1972) (40)
- Late-Life Consequences of Affective Spectrum Disorder (1996) (39)
- Natural history of male psychological health. III. Empirical dimensions of mental health. (1975) (38)
- Natural history of male psychological health, XIV: Relationship of mood disorder vulnerability to physical health. (1998) (38)
- Positive Emotions, Spirituality and the Practice of Psychiatry (2008) (38)
- The historical origins and future potential of Sigmund Freud's concept of the mechanisms of defence (1992) (37)
- Childhood adversity, midlife generativity, and later life well-being. (2014) (34)
- Loss as a metaphor for attachment (1985) (34)
- Resilience in Inner City Youth: Childhood Predictors of Occupational Status Across the Lifespan (2006) (34)
- The Long-Term Effects of World War II Combat Exposure on Later Life Well-Being Moderated by Generativity (2010) (32)
- An Empirically Derived Hierarchy of Adaptive Mechanisms and its Usefulness as a Potential Diagnostic Axis (1985) (31)
- Natural history of male psychological health, XV: retirement satisfaction. (2006) (30)
- Is Alcoholism More Often the Cause or the Result of Depression? (1993) (30)
- A prospective study of the effects of cigarette smoking and alcohol abuse on mortality (1991) (29)
- Youth purpose among the ‘greatest generation’ (2012) (29)
- Ego mechanisms of defense and personality psychopathology (1994) (28)
- A Developmental View of Old and New Perspectives of Personality Disorders (1987) (28)
- Early and Midlife Predictors of Wisdom and Subjective Well-Being in Old Age (2017) (27)
- Psychiatry, religion, positive emotions and spirituality. (2013) (25)
- Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here? (1998) (25)
- Developing Minds: Challenge and Continuity Across the Lifespan (1994) (24)
- Evidence that the type 1/type 2 dichotomy in alcoholism must be re-examined. (1994) (24)
- Is there a natural history of addiction? (1992) (24)
- Natural history of male alcoholism. II. The relationship between different diagnostic dimensions. (1982) (23)
- TWINS DISCORDANT FOR EARLY INFANTILE AUTISM. (1963) (23)
- Natural history of male psychological health, XIII: Who develops high blood pressure and who responds to treatment. (1996) (22)
- Manic-Depressive Heredity and Remission in Schizophrenia (1963) (22)
- Physician, cherish thyself. The hazards of self-prescribing. (1992) (22)
- On defining alcoholism. (1982) (21)
- Prognosis and the course of schizophrenia. (1978) (21)
- Successful aging: Avoiding negative life outcomes: Evidence from a forty-five year study (1990) (21)
- Outcome research in narcotic addiction--problems and perspectives. (1974) (20)
- Narcotic addicts in the mid-1960's. (1966) (20)
- The association of ancestral longevity with successful aging. (1991) (19)
- Introduction: Longitudinal Views of Personality Disorder (1988) (18)
- A COMPARISON OF CHLORPROMAZINE AND IMIPRAMINE ON BEHAVIOR OF THE PIGEON. (1964) (18)
- Predicting Exercise in Late Midlife from Young Adult Personality Characteristics (1990) (18)
- The Analysis of Defense: The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense Revisited (1987) (17)
- Why men seek psychotherapy. I. Results of a survey of college graduates. (1972) (17)
- Control processes and defense mechanisms. (1992) (14)
- Positive Emotions and the Success of Alcoholics Anonymous (2014) (14)
- Prospective prediction of alcoholism and psychopathology. (1984) (13)
- Late midlife development. (1993) (13)
- Clinical significance of anticholinergic effects of imipramine-like drugs. (1969) (13)
- Psychological motives for medical hospitalization. (1970) (13)
- Healthy Aging Among Inner-City Men (2001) (12)
- Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives (2002) (12)
- Lifting the field's "repression" of defenses. (2012) (12)
- Childhood Environment as a Predictor of Perceived Health Status in Late Life (2014) (11)
- “Successful Aging” and Psychosocial Well-Being: Evidence from a 45-Year Study (1994) (11)
- Health consequences of adaptation to life. (1979) (11)
- The role of ego mechanisms of defense in the diagnosis of personality disorders. (1998) (11)
- Physicians use of mood-altering drugs*. A 20-Year follow-up report (1982) (11)
- Vulnerability and Resilience in Human Development (1993) (11)
- John Haslam on early infantile autism. (1962) (10)
- Cultural Factors in the Etiology of Alcoholism: A Prospective Study (1986) (10)
- An intriguing association between ancestral mortality and male affective disorder. (1992) (10)
- Antagonism between physostigmine and atropine on the behavior of the pigeon (1964) (10)
- Development of Adaptive Coping From Mid to Late Life: A 70-Year Longitudinal Study of Defense Maturity and Its Psychosocial Correlates (2017) (9)
- CURRENT THERAPEUTIC RESULTS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA. (1964) (9)
- Antecedents of intact cognition and dementia at age 90 years: a prospective study (2014) (9)
- Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth (2015) (9)
- Some physiologic antecedents of adult mental health. (1987) (8)
- Secrets and lies: comments on Dawson et al. (2005). (2005) (7)
- Defensive maturity ratings and sustained weight loss in obesity. (1986) (7)
- Addictions over the life course: therapeutic implications (1996) (7)
- The Wisdom of the Ego. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1993. (1993) (7)
- PHYSICIANS' USE OF MOOD-ALTERING DRUGS*: A 20-YEAR FOLLOW UP REPORT (1981) (6)
- Long-term follow-up (10-15 years) of schizophrenic patients with Funkenstein (adrenalin-mecholyl) tests. (1966) (6)
- Attachment, loss and rediscovery. (1988) (6)
- Generativity: A Form of Unconditional Love (2007) (6)
- A social casework contribution to understanding alcoholism. (1987) (5)
- Tuberculosis: An Historical Analogy to Schizophrenia (1962) (5)
- John Bowlby, 1907-1990 (1996) (5)
- 1995 IPA/Bayer Research Awards in Psychogeriatrics. Late-life consequences of affective spectrum disorder. (1996) (5)
- Formal Religious Participation and Daily Spiritual Experiences: Separate, but Equal, Linkages with Psychological Well-Being? (2007) (5)
- The Neuroendocrine System and Stress, Emotions, Thoughts and Feelings** (2011) (4)
- The longitudinal study of behavioral disorders. (1984) (4)
- 35. Positive Aging (2015) (4)
- Paired episodes of manic-depressive illness within a single family. (1961) (3)
- Freud vs. God: How Psychiatry Lost Its Soul and Christianity Lost Its Mind (1999) (3)
- Defense Mechanisms (2020) (3)
- The Tricyclics: Antimuscarinie Effects and Confusional States (1972) (2)
- A new approach to the study of psychogenic disturbances. (1970) (2)
- Evidence for a possibly X-linked trait related to affective illness. (2005) (2)
- The cultural dimensions of alcohol policy worldwide. (1989) (2)
- The pendulum swings the other way: the role of environment obscured by genes. (1989) (2)
- The effects of combat and posttraumatic stress disorder on longevity. (2018) (1)
- Ms. Lee and Colleagues Reply (1996) (1)
- Evidence for a Possibly X-Linked Trait Related to Affective Illness (2005) (1)
- Book ReviewAlcoholism Treatment in Transition Women and Alcohol Medical Consequences of Alcohol Abuse (1981) (1)
- Effects of Imipramine-Like Drugs (1969) (1)
- Satisfaction With Retirement in Men’s ives (2006) (1)
- The contribution of prospective studies to the understanding of etiologic factors in alcoholism (1984) (1)
- Soundings: a psychological equivalent of medical percussion. (2001) (1)
- Drs. Vaillant and Mukamal Reply (2002) (1)
- Sociopathy as a Human Process (2016) (1)
- Defense Mechanisms: Their Assessment in the Laboratory and in the Clinic. (1992) (1)
- Restricted Orbital Undercutting (1965) (1)
- Adaptation to Life. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1977. (1977) (1)
- John Case Nemiah, M.D. Tenth editor, The American Journal of Psychiatry. (1993) (0)
- FREUD'S PRACTICE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. AUTHORS' REPLY (1999) (0)
- Prospective Longitudinal Research: An Empirical Basis for the Primary Prevention of Psychosocial Disorders (1983) (0)
- Being 2 Formal Religious Participation and Daily Spiritual Experiences : Separate , but Equal , Linkages with Psychological Well-Being ? (2007) (0)
- Book review (1972) (0)
- 7 Living to ninety (2012) (0)
- 8 Resilience and unconscious coping (2012) (0)
- Time: An Important Dimension of Psychiatric Epidemiology (2021) (0)
- 1 Maturation makes liars of us all (2012) (0)
- 2 The proof of the pudding To flourish for the next sixty years (2012) (0)
- 13. Adult Development (2015) (0)
- Life History Research in Psychopathology is Like a Dog Walking on Its Hind Legs or Discussion of Chapters 12–15 (2021) (0)
- Book Forum TEXTBOOKS (2001) (0)
- Matters of Substance (2005) (0)
- sustained cognitive competence between age 80 and 95 a prospective study (2017) (0)
- Book ReviewAlcoholism and the Physician Our Brothers' Keeper (1982) (0)
- The prediction of recovery in schizophrenia. (1962) (0)
- The Dangers of a Clinical Report@@@Adaptation to Life. (1980) (0)
- Treament of Stress Response Syndromes (2003) (0)
- Studying the unique. (1983) (0)
- A. American Lives: Looking Back at the Children of the Great Depression (1994) (0)
- Drs. Lynn and Vaillant Reply (1999) (0)
- Handbook of Cultural Psychiatry (2002) (0)
- 4 How childhood and adolescence affect old age (2012) (0)
- 10 Surprising findings (2012) (0)
- 2. Deconstmction Deconstructed (1986) (0)
- Cast of protagonists (decathlon score) (2012) (0)
- 3 A short history of the grant study (2012) (0)
- Doctors, Patients and Placebos (1988) (0)
- Conversation with George Vaillant. (2005) (0)
- Book ReviewThe Course of Alcoholism: Four years after treatment (1980) (0)
- Sometimes “glory” means the emperor has no clothes (1995) (0)
- Etiological Issues in the Development of Sociopaths, Criminals, and Impulsive Personalities (1979) (0)
- Harry Stack Sullivan: The Man, his Mind, and his Times. (1983) (0)
- [Three Models of Adult Development.] Commentary. (1996) (0)
- Society’s Books of Note (2017) (0)
- The shift from a focus on pathology to potential; from illness to wellness; and from treatment to prevention; lies at the foundation of integrative medicine. In the field of Psychiatry, this requires practitioners to study (2016) (0)
- Opiate Addiction: Origins and Treatment (1975) (0)
- A guide to addiction and its treatment: by Max M. Glatt. John Wiley and Sons, New York & London, 1974, 346 pp. $15.95 (1975) (0)
- TriumphanT Discoveries abouT LaTe Life fLourishing (2014) (0)
- 11 Summing Up (2003) (0)
- Normality and Mental Health : Ch . 3 . 6 of Kaplan and Sadock ' s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (2019) (0)
- The Natural History of Mania, Depression and Schizophrenia. (1997) (0)
- PROGNOSIS ^ COURSE ORSCHIZOPHRENIA (2005) (0)
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