Triumphs of Experience

书名：Triumphs of ExperienceTheMenoftheHarvardGrantStudy
作者：GeorgeE.Vaillant
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ISBN：9780674059825
出版社：BelknapPress
出版时间：2012-10-30
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：480
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书籍简介：

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 1938, the Grant Study of Adult Development charted the physical and emotional health of over 200 men, starting with their undergraduate days. The now-classic Adaptation to Life reported on the men's lives up to age 55 and helped us understand adult maturation. Now George Vaillant follows the men into their nineties, documenting for the first time what it is like to flourish far beyond conventional retirement. Reporting on all aspects of male life, including relationships, politics and religion, coping strategies, and alcohol use (its abuse being by far the greatest disruptor of health and happiness for the study's subjects), Triumphs of Experience shares a number of surprising findings. For example, the people who do well in old age did not necessarily do so well in midlife, and vice versa. While the study confirms that recovery from a lousy childhood is possible, memories of a happy childhood are a lifelong source of strength. Marriages bring much more contentment after age 70, and physical aging after 80 is determined less by heredity than by habits formed prior to age 50. The credit for growing old with grace and vitality, it seems, goes more to ourselves than to our stellar genetic makeup.

作者简介：

George E. Vaillant, M.D., is a psychoanalyst and a research psychiatrist, one of the pioneers in the study of adult development. He is a professor at Harvard University and directed Harvard's Study of Adult Development for thirty-five years. He is the author of Aging Well, Triumphs of Experience and The Natural History of Alcoholism, and his 1977 book, Adaptation to Life, is a classic text in the study of adult development. He lives in Orange California, but works part time at Massachusetts GenealHospital.

书友短评：

@ Ray 书的来源是始于哈佛七十五年前开始的一个社会学研究，从当时的学生里选了学习好身体好的268个人进行研究，每隔几年就有问卷调查，身体心理检查，家访（包括这些人的父母子女亲友），直到这些人去世。虽然是匿名的，但是已知的有肯尼迪总统，华盛顿邮报的前主编，好像还有拿诺贝尔奖的。这本书是研究中心的前主任写的我印象最深的就几个：1, 一个人的爱的能力在很大程度上决定了这个人的幸福；2，给孩子个学区房不如给孩子个幸福的童年（反之并不成立，即不好的童年并不影响人的长期幸福）；3，与母亲的良好关系严重影响一个人的幸福，找老婆还是得找有爱心的；4，一个人应对困难的机制，如repressing, passive aggressiveness, 在很大程度上决定了人的成功；5，不要抽烟酗酒。 @ 青鸟 书的来源是始于哈佛七十五年前开始的一个社会学研究，从当时的学生里选了学习好身体好的268个人进行研究，每隔几年就有问卷调查，身体心理检查，家访（包括这些人的父母子女亲友），直到这些人去世。虽然是匿名的，但是已知的有肯尼迪总统，华盛顿邮报的前主编，好像还有拿诺贝尔奖的。这本书是研究中心的前主任写的我印象最深的就几个：1, 一个人的爱的能力在很大程度上决定了这个人的幸福；2，给孩子个学区房不如给孩子个幸福的童年（反之并不成立，即不好的童年并不影响人的长期幸福）；3，与母亲的良好关系严重影响一个人的幸福，找老婆还是得找有爱心的；4，一个人应对困难的机制，如repressing, passive aggressiveness, 在很大程度上决定了人的成功；5，不要抽烟酗酒。

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