George Eman Vaillant 1584377 223223389 2008-07-03T03:23:59Z Rjwilmsi 203434 gen + birth/death date fixes per [[Wikipedia:DATE#Dates_of_birth_and_death|MOS]] using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] '''George Eman Vaillant, M.D.''' (born 1934) is an [[United States|American]] [[psychiatrist]] and [[Professor]] at [[Harvard 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 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 [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 [[defence mechanisms|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 The [[Pennsylvania Hospital]], the Burlingame Award from [[The Institute for Living]], and the [[Jellinek Award]] for research in [[alcoholism]]. Most recently he received the research prize of the [[International Psychogeriatric Society]][http://www.ipa-online.org/ipaonlinev3/home/default.asp]. ==Books== *Vaillant, GE (1977), ''Adaptation to Life'', Boston, MA, Little, Brown, 1977 [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 *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 '', ISBN-10: 0767926579 ==Further 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. ==See also== *[[Defence mechanisms|Defense mechanisms]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Vaillant, George Eman}} [[Category:1934 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American psychiatrists]] [[Category:Harvard Medical School alumni]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] [[Category:Researchers in alcohol abuse]]