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The Wisdom of the Ego. Sources of Resilience in Adult Life.
George E. Vaillant
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Paperback. This work provides an exploration of how the mind's defences work. What is often seen as the mind's trickery, the author tells us, is actually healthy and can reveal the mind at its most creative and mature, providing protection in the face of unbearable reality and ordering disorder. Num Pages: 408 pages, 17 tables, 5 figures. BIC Classification: JMS; JMT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 167 x 26. Weight in Grams: 596.
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 Vaillant tells us, is actually healthy. What's more, it can reveal the mind at its most creative and mature, soothing and protecting us in the face of unbearable reality, managing the unmanageable, ordering disorder. And because creativity is so intrinsic to this alchemy of the ego, Vaillant mingles his studies of obscure lives with psychobiographies of famous artists and others--including Florence Nightingale, Sylvia Plath, Anna Freud, and ... Read more
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 Vaillant tells us, is actually healthy. What's more, it can reveal the mind at its most creative and mature, soothing and protecting us in the face of unbearable reality, managing the unmanageable, ordering disorder. And because creativity is so intrinsic to this alchemy of the ego, Vaillant mingles his studies of obscure lives with psychobiographies of famous artists and others--including Florence Nightingale, Sylvia Plath, Anna Freud, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674953734
SKU
V9780674953734
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About George E. Vaillant
George E. Vaillant is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Reviews for The Wisdom of the Ego. Sources of Resilience in Adult Life.
The rumor of the death of Ego Psychology is greatly exaggerated. As long as George Vaillant writes his engaging books extolling the wisdom of ego psychology it is destined to remain part of our theoretical landscape...The Wisdom of the Ego is written with the author's vivid, sometimes witty and consistently clear style, happily interspersed with numerous examples both from his ... Read more