Drawn from an unrivaled series of studies on a vast array of subjects, from their teens to old age, a revolutionary guide documents the essential factors involved in obtaining a happy. healthy old age, and offers practical advice for changing our lifestyle and aging gracefully and successfully. Repr[...]

At a time when many people around the world are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: our lives continue to evolve in our later years, and often become more fulfilling than before. Begun in 1[...]

One of America's preeminent psychiatrists draws on his famous Study of Adult Development to give us a look at how the mind's defenses work. What we see as the mind's trickery, George Vaillant tells us, is actually healthy. What's more, it can reveal the mind at its most creative and mature, soothing[...]

Not since Anna FreudÂs 1937 book, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense, has any one volume explored this topic as fully as Ego Mechanisms of Defense by George E. Vaillant. By summarizing the latest empirical studies, proposing a universal language of defense mechanisms, and demonstrating how vario[...]