George Eman Vaillant
George Eman Vaillant (born June 16, 1934 ) is an American psychiatrist and university professor .
Life and accomplishments
George Eman Vaillant's father was the ethnologist George Clapp Vaillant , who committed suicide in 1945. This may have prompted the son's interest in psychiatry . He received his education at Harvard College in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and at Harvard Medical School . Additional psychoanalytic training took place at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He then specialized in researching psychological defense processes , alcoholism and a way of life that leads to satisfaction. He is invited to speak at many specialist conferences around the world.
Vaillant is married and lives mainly in California .
Works (selection)
- Theoretical Hierarchy of Adaptive Ego Mechanisms . In: Archives of General Psychiatry 24, (1971) 107-118.
- Adaptation to Life , Boston, MA, Little, Brown, 1977 (also Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Hardcover, 396pp ISBN 0-316-89520-2 , including German, Korean and Chinese translations). ( Reprinted with a new foreword from 1995 from Harvard University Press , Cambridge, MA).
- Natural History of Alcoholism , Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press (1983).
Web links
- George E. Vaillant in Greater Good Magazine at the University of California, Berkeley
- Michael Saur: The long way to happiness , Süddeutsche Zeitung , issue 13/2013
- George E. Vaillant's biography (PDF) on oneplusone.org.uk
- Publications by George E. Vaillant at Harvard University Press
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Saur: The long way to happiness . in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, Magazin, issue 13/2013; online version , accessed September 9, 2017.
- ↑ Stavros Mentzos : Neurotic Conflict Processing. Introduction to the psychoanalytic theory of neuroses, taking into account more recent perspectives. © 1982 Kindler, Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt 1992, ISBN 3-596-42239-6 ; P. 62 ff. On head. "Defense mechanisms".
- ↑ Natural History of Alcoholism, Cambridge, Google Books Teil-Digitalisat
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Vaillant, George Eman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1934 |