George Eman Vaillant is an American psychiatrist and Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Vaillant has passed his career in research in charting adult development and the retrieval process of schizophrenia, alcoholism, heroin addiction and personality disorder. George Eman Vaillant has spent 30 years of his career as Director of the Study of Adult Development at the Harvard University Health Service. The study has very well charted the lives of 824 women and men for over 60 years.
George Eman Vaillant was a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and did his residency at the renowned Massachusetts Mental Health Center and finished his psychoanalytic training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He was also a Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, performed the work of an invited speaker and consultant for seminars and workshops throughout the entire world and a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists.
One of the major parts of his work in the past was to develop various types of ways and means to study the defense mechanisms by trial and error basis. Till recently, he has been occupied in successful aging.
Dr. George Eman Vaillant has accepted the Foundations Fund Prize for Research in Psychiatry from the prestigious American Psychiatric Association, the Burlingame Award from The Institute for Living, the Strecker Award from The Pennsylvania Hospital and the Jellinek Award for research in alcoholism. Recently, he got the research prize of the International Psychogeriatric Society.
Some of the books written by George Eman Vaillant deal with things like alcoholism, alcohol abuse, etc. One of the books written by Vaillant is The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited. This book describes two multi-decade studies on the lives of 600 American males, non-alcoholics at the beginning, giving focus on their entire drinking behaviors. Following these men from their youth to old age it became possible to graph their drinking patterns and what reasons were behind their inclination towards alcoholism. Soon after that another study followed on 100 severe alcoholics from a clinic after eight years of their detoxification. The National Review acclaimed the first edition in 1983 as a real revolution in the field of research on alcoholism. The National Review told that Vaillant combined unexampled amount of empirical data with clinical experience to produce something which may ultimately be viewed as the single most vital contribution to the literature of alcoholism after the edition of the first AA's Big Book.
Some of the other books written by George Eman Vaillant include Adaptation to Life in 1977. This book is also available in German, Chinese and Korean languages. Ego Mechanisms of Defense was another book by Vaillant in 1992. This book is a guide for researchers and clinicians. Other books written by Vaillant are Aging Well in 2002, The Wisdom of the Ego in 1993, etc. George Eman Vaillant also researched on various things including things relating to alcohol abuse.
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