George Vaillant, M.D.
Honorary Investigator Psychiatry, Mass General Research Institute |
Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School |
Consultant Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital |
MD Harvard medical school 1959 |
MD Harvard Medical School/ BWH 1959 |
Research Interests
Research Narrative
A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Vaillant did his residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and completed his psychoanalytic training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He has been a Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and has been an invited speaker and consultant for seminars and workshops throughout the world. A major focus of his work in the past has been to develop ways of studying defense mechanisms empirically; more recently he has been interested in successful aging.
Dr. Vaillant has received the Foundations Fund Prize for Research in Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association, the Strecker Award from the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, the Burlingame Award from The Institute for Living, and the Jellinek Award for research in alcoholism. Most recently he has twice received research prizes from the International Psychogeriatric Society.
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