Word: vaillant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried to avoid the pitfalls of so many other studies of men in their worlds: a too-narrow focus of research. Psychologists tend to study the ego's changing role and function (Erikson) or a man's changing defense mechanisms to deal with the world (Harvard's George E. Vaillant); sociologists focus on men's work or class or world-view; anthropologists on the nature of his ties to his family, community, religion, or nation. Levinson, however, is anxious to put his new discipline on a more secure, if ambitious, footing; he wants to study what he calls "the fabric...
...People haven't changed much over 3000 years, although the manifestations of problems change," Dr. George E. Vaillant, associate professor of psychiatry, said yesterday. "Who goes to Health Services may change with fashion...
...Students may be a little more grown up than they used to be, but essentially they have the same problems," Vaillant added...
...anything like precise study. Such theories, in fact, have been greeted with skepticism by orthodox psychologists, but Sheehy was enthusiastic. She switched her focus from genetics to adult development, talked to Levinson and two other researchers with strikingly similar findings, U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Roger Gould and Harvard Psychiatrist George Vaillant, and plunged into her own life-cycle interviewing. The results: one of the most successful series of articles in New York magazine's history, and a $37,500 advance for a book (Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life, due this month from E.P. Dutton...
George E. Vaillant, associate professor of Psychiatry, whose class, Social Sciences 169, "Adaptations to Life," drew 300 students, said yesterday he will be forced to hire two more teaching assistants and to move to another lecture hall...