Tuesday, June 2, 2009

What makes people Happy [relationships.blog-city.com]

What makes people Happy [relationships.blog-city.com]


George Vaillant
Video, 7 minutes

What makes people Happy
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posted Mon, 06/01/09

Excerpts:

Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history. Its contents, as much literature as science, offer profound insight into the human condition—and into the brilliant, complex mind of the study’s longtime director, George Vaillant
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Video Link: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1460906593?bctid=22804415001

Wikipedia:
George Eman Vaillant, M.D. (born 1934) is an American psychiatrist and Professor at Harvard Medical
School
and Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's
Hospital
. Dr. Vaillant has spent his research career charting adult
development and the recovery process of schizophrenia, heroin addiction, alcoholism,
and personality
disorder
. He has spent the last 30 years as Director of the Study of Adult
Development at the Harvard University Health
Service
. The study has prospectively charted the lives of 824 men and women
for over 60 years.


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