Author: VAILLANT George E. VAILLANT

When The Natural History of Alcoholism was first published in 1983, it was acclaimed in the press as the single most important contribution to the literature on alcoholism since the first edition of …

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 l …

One of America’s preeminent psychiatrists draws on his famous Study of Adult Development to give us an exhilarating look at how the mind’s defenses work. What we see as the mind’s trickery, George Va …

Between 1939 and 1942, one of America’s leading universities recruited 268 of its healthiest and most promising undergraduates to participate in a revolutionary new study of the human life cycle. The …