George e vaillant biography of donald
George E. Vaillant, M.D., is a psychoanalyst and a research psychiatrist, one of the pioneers in the study of adult development.!
George E. Vaillant, M.D. is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and directed Harvard's Study of Adult Development for thirty-five years.
George Eman Vaillant
George Eman Vaillant (; born June 16, 1934) is an American psychiatrist and Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Vaillant has spent his research career charting adult development and the recovery process of schizophrenia, heroin addiction, alcoholism, and personality disorder. Through 2003, he spent 30 years as Director of the Study of Adult Development at the Harvard University Health Service.
The study has prospectively charted the lives of 724 men and women for over 60 years.[1]
Biography
George Eman Vaillant's father, George Clapp Vaillant, killed himself in 1945. George Eman, who was 10 years old at the time, was traumatized by his father's suicide and thus had deep emotional reasons for being interested in psychiatry.
He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, did his psychiatric residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center