Robert Waldinger, M.D.
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Physician Investigator (Cl) Psychiatry, Mass General Research Institute |
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Professor of Psychiatry, Part-time Harvard Medical School |
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Psychiatrist Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| MD 1978 |
| MD Harvard Medical School/ BWH 1978 |
Research Interests
Research Narrative
Dr. Robert Waldinger is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. The Study has studied the lives of 2 groups of men for over 85 years. Dr. Waldinger is now studying the more than 2000 children of these men to examine how childhood experience affects midlife health and wellbeing. For more information about this research, please watch Dr. Waldinger's TED talk about this remarkable study of lives: https://www.robertwaldinger.com
Dr. Waldinger received his A.B. from Harvard College and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He is the author of numerous scientific papers as well as two books: Psychiatry for Medical Students (American Psychiatric Press, 1984, 1991, 1997), and Effective Psychotherapy with Borderline Patients: Case Studies (Macmillan, 1987). He is a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, he teaches Harvard medical students and psychiatry residents, and he is a Zen teacher (roshi).
| rwaldinger@mgh.harvard.edu |
| 6176434339 |
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