Word: vaillant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defense Mechanisms. One recent session centered on Martha and George, the savagely quarrelsome couple in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? "While watching the play," Psychiatrist George Vaillant told the audience, "imagine yourself an intern several years from now. George would enter the hospital yellow with jaundice and with cirrhosis of the liver, the results of his alcoholism. Martha would come in for her third operation for adhesions resulting from stab wounds." During the discussion, Vaillant prompted the students and actors with questions. What were George and Martha angry about? What defense mechanisms did they...
...women present at the meeting with Pusey were Jane Pollock, who re-ceived her doctorate from Harvard this year and is president of NOW, Nancy Vaillant '55, vice president of NOW, and Ann Thornton '69, president of the Harvard Women's Law Student Association...