The Wisdom of the Ego: Sources of Resilience in Adult Life by George E. Vaillant

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Wisdom of the Ego by George E. Vaillant This work provides an exploration of how the minds defenses work. What is often seen as the minds 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description One of Americas preeminent psychiatrists draws on his famous Study of Adult Development to give us an exhilarating look at how the minds defenses work. What we see as the minds trickery, George Vaillant tells us, is actually healthy. Whats 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 Eugene ONeill. Notes This is a remarkable synthesis of the best current thinking on ego psychology as well as a many-faceted picture of what Robert White would call lives in progress. It makes on its own not only a highly innovative contribution to ego psychology but an equally original and impressive contribution to longitudinal research. A remarkable and many-faceted work. -- George W. Goethals, Harvard University A richly textured, elegantly written, and humane book by the person who is becoming the Anna Freud of his day. Vaillants sympathetic treatment of the defenses is itself wise and creative. -- Robert Kegan, Harvard University and the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology This is a brilliant, not to say unique, book. It brings to the study of the ego the same clarifying empiricism, animating passion, and illuminating insight that so strikingly characterized the pioneering investigations of the dynamic unconcious a hundred years ago. Behind The Wisdom of the Ego lies the wonderful wisdom of George Vaillant. -- John C. Nemiah, Darmouth Medical School Author Biography George E. Vaillant is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Table of Contents * Introduction *1. Why Praise the Human Ego? *2. A Matter of Definition *3. Self-Deceptions of Everyday Life *4. Necessary Questions *5. How Can We Prove That Defenses Exist? *6. The Ego and Adult Development *7. Life Histories *8. The Ego and Creativity *9. Sylvia Plath: Creativity and Psychotic Defenses *10. Anna Freud: Mature Defenses *11. Eugene ONeill: The Maturation of Defenses *12. Disadvantage, Resilience, and Mature Defenses *13. How Does the Ego Mature? * Notes * Acknowledgments * Credits * Index Review 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 authors vivid, sometimes witty and consistently clear style, happily interspersed with numerous examples both from his longitudinal studies, as well as from biographies of well-known people...One need not agree with all of Vaillants premises to appreciate and enjoy this colorful and many-faceted book. I cannot think of a better, more absorbing book to introduce clinical graduate students and clinicians in general to an up-dated version of the best ideas of ego psychology. -- Sophie Freud * American Journal of Psychotherapy *This is a remarkable synthesis of the best current thinking on ego psychology as well as a many-faceted picture of what Robert White would call lives in progress. It makes on its own not only a highly innovative contribution to ego psychology but an equally original and impressive contribution to longitudinal research. A remarkable and many-faceted work. -- George W. Goethals, Harvard UniversityVaillant tells us that ego defenses are not pathological formations or symptoms of mental illness. They are ingenious self-deceptions that serve adaptation...He is to be commended for bringing certain unconscious processes into focus and for illuminating the various ways in which ego defenses contribute to a persons adaptation to life. -- Louise J. Kaplan * Boston Sunday Globe *The thesis of The Wisdom of the Ego is most persuasively developed by the use of life histories, some of which derive from subjects in Vaillants study groups but many of which are derived from life histories of famous individuals. The reader gets delicious insights into the way that life experiences shaped the egos defensive repertoire and how these defenses then shaped the careers of characters as diverse as Beethoven and Emily Dickinson, Tolstoy and Henry Ford, and Gandhi and Josef Mengele...The illustrations offered by these famous lives result in a book that is entertaining and memorable. -- John G. Gunderson, M.D. * American Journal of Psychiatry *Mental health, social fitness, creativity, self-deception, success and failure are documented with uplifting humor and nobility. Medical and psychiatric understanding is eruditely conveyed with the good taste of a fine after-dinner story. * Canadian Medical Association Journal *A stimulating presentation of theory and research on ego development. * Choice *A richly textured, elegantly written, and humane book by the person who is becoming the Anna Freud of his day. Vaillants sympathetic treatment of the defenses is itself wise and creative. -- Robert Kegan, Harvard University and the Massachusetts School of Professional PsychologyThis is a brilliant, not to say unique, book. It brings to the study of the ego the same clarifying empiricism, animating passion, and illuminating insight that so strikingly characterized the pioneering investigations of the dynamic unconcious a hundred years ago. Behind The Wisdom of the Ego lies the wonderful wisdom of George Vaillant. -- John C. Nemiah, Darmouth Medical School Promotional This is a remarkable synthesis of the best current thinking on ego psychology as well as a many-faceted picture of what Robert White would call lives in progress. It makes on its own not only a highly innovative contribution to ego psychology but an equally original and impressive contribution to longitudinal research. A remarkable and many-faceted work. -- George W. Goethals, Harvard University A richly textured, elegantly written, and humane book by the person who is becoming the Anna Freud of his day. Vaillants sympathetic treatment of the defenses is itself wise and creative. -- Robert Kegan, Harvard University and the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology This is a brilliant, not to say unique, book. It brings to the study of the ego the same clarifying empiricism, animating passion, and illuminating insight that so strikingly characterized the pioneering investigations of the dynamic unconcious a hundred years ago. Behind The Wisdom of the Ego lies the wonderful wisdom of George Vaillant. -- John C. Nemiah, Darmouth Medical School Review Quote Vaillant tells us that ego defenses are not pathological formations or symptoms of mental illness. They are ingenious self-deceptions that serve adaptation...He is to be commended for bringing certain unconscious processes into focus and for illuminating the various ways in which ego defenses contribute to a persons adaptation to life. Details ISBN0674953738 Author George E. Vaillant Short Title WISDOM OF THE EGO Publisher Harvard University Press Language English ISBN-10 0674953738 ISBN-13 9780674953734 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1998 Imprint Harvard University Press Subtitle Sources of Resilience in Adult Life Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States Residence MA, US Birth 1934 Affiliation Harvard Medical School Brigham and Womens Hospital Pages 408 DOI 10.1604/9780674953734 UK Release Date 1998-07-21 AU Release Date 1998-07-21 NZ Release Date 1998-07-21 US Release Date 1998-07-21 Publication Date 1998-07-21 DEWEY 154.24 Illustrations 17 tables, 5 figures Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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